1. Earlier to1729AD, when Pieter van Musschenbroek used the term 'PHYSICS' for the first time, the subject was known as

    Science

    Physical Science

    Natural Science

    Natural Philosophy

2. Who was the first pre-Socratic philosopher to suggest that matter could neither be created nor destroyed?

    Democritus

    Parmenides

    Empedocles

    Pythagoras

3. Which Greek philosopher suggested that the material world was composed of four basic elements, air, water, fire, and earth?

    Empedocies

    Heraclitus

    Plato

    Anaximander

4. Which philosopher gave the idea for the first time that all matter was made up of minute indivisible particles, called atomos?

    Lucretius

    Zpkurus

    Leudppus

    Democritus

5. Who, in 1231, was the first to describe the science of optics?

    Willebrord Snell

    Giambattista Delia Porta

    Robert Grosseteste

    John Pecham

6. The first volume of which famous treatise was published in 1686?

    Traits de la Lumiert by C. Huygens

    Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton

    On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs by N. Copernicus

    Traitt de Dynamicnie by Jean d'Alembert

7. Who, among the following, was the first person to design models of flying machine?

    Wright brothers

    Montgolfter brothers

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Otto Lilienthal

8. An important event took place in 1665. Which of the following is it?

    The discovery of Newtonian laws of gravitation

    The discovery of Hooke's law

    The discovery of Pascal's law

    Ole Ro'mer measured the velocity of light

9. In 1678, Christiaan Huygens explained the wave theory of light in his Treatise on Light, but this was published only in

    1642

    1652

    1662

    1672

10. Who in 1643 was the first person to create vacuum above the liquid?

    Robert Hooke

    Blaise Pascal

    Otto von Guericke

    Evangelista Torricelli

11. Who in 1808 discovered polarization of light and introduced the term 'polarization'?

    Thomas Young

    Christiaan Huygens

    Etienne-Louis Malus

    David Brewster

12. Who was burnt to death for suggesting that the sun might be an ordinary star?

    Giordano Bruno

    Galileo Galilei

    Tycho Brahe

    Nkolaus Copernicus

13. Which of the following phenomena was not Galileo's observation?

    Craters are present on the surface of the moon.

    Planets move in elliptical orbits,

    Jupiter is surrounded by four moons,

    The phases Venus undergoes are similar to the phases of our moon.

14. In which year did Otto von Guericke demonstrate his famous Magdeburg experiment dealing with vacuum?

    1642

    1652

    1662

    1672

15. When Anders Celsius invented the thermometer in 1742, he used 0° for boiling point and 100" for freezing point of water. A year later, who among the following swapped the points and switched over to the system that we use today?

    Fransisco Grimaldi

    David Gregory

    Jean Pierre Christin

    Celsius himself

16. Who in 1786 invented the gold leaf electroscope?

    Abraham Bennet

    Henry Cavendish

    Luigi Galvani

    Georg von Klist

17. The first scientist to apply scientific reasoning to cosmology was Rene Descartes. What was his theory called?

    Tidal theory

    Nebular theory

    Vortex theory

    Accumulation theory

18. Who, among the following physicists, was the first to attack Newton's corpuscular theory of light?

    Albert Einstein

    Christian Huygens

    James Clerk Maxwell

    Thomas Young

19. Apart from inventing the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell also patented a device to transmit message using light rays, an idea far ahead of his time. What was this device called?

    Photophone

    Optical fibre

    Television

    Lasers

20. In which year did Luigi Galvani discover, albeit accidentally, the action of electricity on the muscles of a dissected frog?

    1751

    1761

    1771

    1781

21. Hydrodynamica gave explanation of Bernoulli's theorem in 1738. Who was the first to suggest this theorem?

    Daniel Bernoulli

    Jacob Bernoulli

    Johann Bernoulli

    Pierre Bernoulli

22. The first practical way to store static electricity was the Leyden jar. Who in 1746 invented it?

    Allessandro Volta

    Lord Leyden

    Pieter von Musschenenbroek and Cuneus of Leyden University, and also by Ewald Georg von Klist

    William of Orange University

23. Who in 1749 developed a method for making an artificial magnet?

    Charles Du Fay

    John Canton

    John Robinson

    Stephen Gray

24. Who encouraged Newton to write his ideas for Principia?

    Christopher Wren

    Robert Hooke

    Andrew Motte

    Edmund Halley

25. In 1705, Francis Hanksbee conducted an important experiment in acoustics. The experiment dealt with

    vibrations in strings

    vibrations in air columns

    a clock in vacuum

    energy associated with sound

26. In 1752, Benjamin Franklin conducted the famous kite experiment. What did it suggest?

    Lightning is a form of electricity

    Clouds consist of charged particles

    Pressure is low in the upper atmosphere

    Electricity requires a conductor to flow

27. In 1672, a French scientist made an expedition to Cayenne, to demonstrate that a pendulum of the same length has a longer time period on the equator than in France? Who was he?

    Rent de Reaumur

    Pieter van Musschenbroek

    Jean Richer

    Francois Mark Arouet

28. Which famous Danish physicist in 1675 measured the speed of light?

    Bradley

    Fizeau

    Foucault

    Romer

29. What did Sir William Herschel discover in 1800?

    Infra-red radiation

    The planet Uranus

    Ultra-violet radiation

    A process of photography on sensitised paper

30. Michael Faraday formulated the laws of electrolysis in 1833, but someone else introduced the terms 'electrode', 'anode', 'cathode', 'ion', 'anion', 'cation', and 'electrolyte'. Who was the person?

    John Darnell

    William Whewell

    Heinrich Lenz

    C.P. Thomson

31. The year 1820 is famous for I. the discovery of electromagnetism,II. The formulation of basic laws of electromagnetism, III. The construction of firstgalvanometer IV. The discovery of magnetic effect of electricity. Which combination below is correct?

    I and IV

    II and IV

    I, III and IV

    I, II, III and IV

32. In which year did Georg Simon Ohm formulate Ohm's Law?

    1805

    1816

    1827

    1838

33. The picture below belongs to a remarkable theorist who described accurately the view of earth from an imaginary orbiting satellite. Who is he?

    H.G.Wells

    JulesVerne

    Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

    Werner von Braun

34. Robert Brown discovered 'Brownian Motion' in 1827. Brown was basically a

    zoologist

    botanist

    chemist

    physicist

35. In which year did Albert Michelson and Edward Morley conduct their famous experiment to verify the existence of ether?

    1881

    1884

    1887

    1891

36. November 8, 1895 is an important date in the history of physics, because on this date

    Thomson discovered the electron

    W. Rqentgen discovered the X-rays

    the first issue of The Physical Review was published

    CTR Wilson developed the cloud chamber

37. Einstein's general theory of relativity created a stir in the scientific world. An experiment was conducted to organise an expedition to observe the 1919 solar eclipse and prove the theory. Who headed this famous experiment?

    A.A. Michelson

    Edward Morky

    C.Guil-laume

    Arthur Eddington

38. Who introduced the term 'electron' and estimated the charge of an unknown electron to be about 10 raised to the power of 20 C, very close to the actual value of 1.602 raised to the power of 19

    George Stoney

    J.J. Thomson

    G.P. Thomson

    Eugen Goldstein

39. Who in 1939 suggested the name meson for middle-weight particles?

    Hideki Yukawa

    Homi J. Bhabha

    Abraham Pais

    C. Anderson

40. December 02, 1942 is known for

    the creation of the first controlled chain reaction

    the activation of the first operational nuclear reactor

    the formulation of the Big Bang theory

    the development of the first thermonuclear device