PHYSICS BOWL XXXVII
Friday, April 29, 2011
ENTRY FORM
Physics
Bowl
II
Return to:
Department of Physics
SDSU - Box 2219
Brookings, SD 57007
Phone: 605-688-5428
Fax: 605-688-5878
http://www .sdstate.edu/phys/
E-mail: [email protected]
Friday, April 29, 2011
[In conjunction with
Engineering Expo]
SDSU PHYSICS BOWL XXXVII
The Physics Department of SDSU would like to invite your school to enter a team in Physics
Bowl XXXVI I (in conjunction with Engineering Expo). It is intended to be a fun, exciting and
rewarding experience for your students. This contest, which starts with registration at 12:30 pm,
is an opportunity to make physics teaching and learning fun. The student contestants experience
the excitement of competition and meet other students from a variety of schools. Some of the
contestants will carry away substantial cash prizes for themselves and a plaque for their school.
The following awards will be presented to each member of the top five teams: $40 to each
member of 1st place, $30 to each member of 2nd place, $20 to each member of 3rd place, $15 to
each member of 4th place and $10 to each member of 5th place. The top five schools will also
receive an appropriate plaque. Each team sponsor will also receive a physics memento of some
sort in appreciation of his/her efforts.
Each school is eligible to enter one team up to 3 students to compete against the other
schools. Science teachers may decide in their own way how to select the team members for their
school. If you are interested in participating, return the entry form and we will send you complete
details at a later date.
This contest is now a popular event known state wide. Many schools participate. The
following teams have participated in previous years: St. Mary's (Dell Rapids), Lennox, Platte,
Colman-Egan, Lincoln High, Washington (Sioux Falls), Salem, Mitchell, Howard, Marion,
Mitchell Christian, Brookings, Highmore, Grant Deuel, Viborg, Gary, O'Gorman, Canton,
Northwestern (Mellette), Huron, Dell Rapids, Hamlin, McCook Central, Milbank, Sioux Valley,
Volga Christian, New Effington, Parker, Roosevelt (Sioux Falls), Wessington Springs, Orange City
(Iowa), Patrick Henry (Sioux Falls), Hancock MN, Deubrook, Flandreau, Huron, Hurley, Marion,
Estelline, Menno, Canton, Arlington, Beresford, South Shore, Artesian-Letcher, Hamlin, Brandon
Valley, Scotland, Viborg, Centerville, Rosholt, Saydel (IA),Wakonda, Sisseton, Webster, RoncalliAberdeen, Atwater-Cosmos MN, FOCHES (Brookings Area Home School), and Plattsmouth NE.
If you have never entered a team before, please consider giving it a try. Teams which
have entered apprehensively have found the experience to be full of fun and excitement and
return year after year. The level of questions is appropriate so that no one ever feels embarrassed
for not knowing the proper answer, and with a little luck, his/her estimates and guesses might
even score high enough to earn one of the prizes. The competition puts the fun and fascination
of physics out where everyone can enjoy it.
Questions will be based on topics such as basic mechanics, heat and thermodynamics,
basic electricity, optics, famous physicists, etc. Each team will answer questions posed by the
quizmaster. Answers are scored according to accuracy, speed or perhaps both. Each question has
a point value, and the team with the highest score wins.
Only the first 18 teams to return the entry form to the SDSU Physics
Department
with the intention to compete will be accepted.
Do it early to avoid
disappointment!
Sample Questions for Physics Bowl
Where would your weight be the greatest?
a.)
in Brookings, South Dakota
b.)
at the North Pole
c.)
at the equator, or
d.)
your weight will be the same at all these points.
The acceleration of gravity on the moon is approximately onefifth of what it is on earth
a.)
a 2-kg mass on earth will be approximately OA-kgon
the moon,
b.)
a 2-kg mass on earth will be approximately 10-kgon
the moon,
c.)
a 2-kg mass on earth will be approximately
one-fifth-kg on the moon, or
d.)
a 2-kg mass will be exactly 2-kg on the moon.
IT you run DC current through two parallel wires,
a.)
ifthe currents are in the same direction, the wires will
attract one another,
b.)
ifthe currents are in opposite directions, the wires will
attract one another,
c.)
the force between the two wires will alternately attract
and then repel, or
d.)
there will not be any force between the wires.
A Foucult pendulum is used to
a.)
show that the earth is rotating,
b.)
accurately calibrate time measurements,
c.)
balance a teeter-totter,
d.)
accurately measure a mass value.
The colors of the rainbow are in the following order
a.)
red, orange, yellow, green, violet, blue
b.)
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet
c.)
red, orange, yellow, violet, green, blue
d.)
red, green, yellow, orange, violet, blue
Consider a long and short hollow tube. IT one blows across the
top,
a.)
the longer tube will have the highest frequency,
b.)
the longer tube will have the lowest wavelength,
c.)
the longer tube will have the lowest frequency, or
d.)
the frequencies ofthe two will be the same, but the
wavelengths will be different.
The time it takes light to travel from the sun to the earth is
approximately
a.)
0.8 seconds,
b.)
eight seconds,
c.)
eight minutes, or
d.)
eight hours.