Physics Fundamentals Quiz

The word 'physics' comes from the Latin 'physica' ('study of nature'), which is a borrowing of the Greek 'φυσική' (phusikḗ 'natural science'), derived from 'φύσις' (phúsis 'origin, nature, property')

Television, computers, domestic appliances, and nuclear weapons are some of the products developed as a result of advances in electromagnetism, solid-state physics, and nuclear physics.

Early civilizations dating before 3000 BCE, such as the Sumerians and ancient Egyptians, are mentioned as having knowledge of astronomy.

<p>Astronomy is one of the oldest natural sciences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Advances in thermodynamics led to the development of industrialization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid, or solid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acoustic waves with frequencies lying between about 20 Hz and 20 kHz, the audio frequency range, elicit an auditory percept in humans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sound waves above 20 kHz are known as ultrasound and are not audible to humans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sound waves below 20 Hz are known as infrasound.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound, and infrasound.</p> Signup and view all the answers