Sci-Tech 09 Finals

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Due to too much of X in the body,tissues swell. So excess X outside thecells draws sodium from within the cellsout into the serum in an attempt to re-establish the necessary concentration,and sodium concentration drops - a

condition known as hyponatremia. Bothelectrolytes and X move across the cellmembrane in an effort to balanceconcentration.

Theoretically, cells could swell to thepoint of bursting and this puts pressure

on the brain and nerves, which can


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Water (H2O)


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X initially obtained an M.D. at StanleyMedical College in Madras, India, and

subsequently obtained a Ph.D. from TrinityCollege at the University of Cambridge.

He gave the 2003 BBC Reith Lectures,

Decade of the Brain lecture for the SilverJubilee meeting of the Society forNeuroscience, and was conferred the title of

Padma Bhushan by the President of India in2007.Newsweek magazine named him a memberof "The Century Club", one of the "hundred

most prominent people to watch" in the


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X died on 24 October 1601 in Prague, elevendays after suddenly becoming very ill during abanquet.

For hundreds of years, the general belief wasthat he had strained his bladder. It had been

said that to leave the banquet before itconcluded would be the height of bad manners,and so he remained, and that his bladder,stretched to its limit, developed an infection

which later killed him. This theory wassupported by Kepler's first-hand account.

Recent investigations have suggested that X

did not die from urinary problems but instead


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Tycho Brahe


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A powerful number is a positiveinteger that for every prime number

p dividing it, p2

also divides it.Eg: 4 is divided by 2, and 22

A perfect power is a positive integerthat can be expressed as a power ofsome other positive integer. Eg:

Square numbers, cube numbers andso on..

Powerful numbers which are not a

perfect powers (and hence imperfect)


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Achilles Number


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This is a coding contest at Pwn2own held byCanSecWest ,Charlie Miller (the first guy)pocketed a $5,000 cash prize and a fully-patchedMacBook by splitting it wide, and gaining fullcontrol of the device after a user clicked on hismaliciouslink. So much for a safe MacBook.Another white-hatter by the name Nils(pictured) toppled Internet Explorer 8 running

on a Windows 7 laptop -- again, the five grandand compromised VAIO P laptop are now his tokeep as compensation for turning over themalicious code.


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The first of the three laws, previouslytermed X's Law, was proposed by X in theessay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure ofImagination.

The second law is offered as a simpleobservation in the same essay; its status asX's Second Law was conferred on it byothers.

In Profiles of the Future (1973), Xacknowledged the Second Law proposedthe Third in order to round out the number,adding "As three laws were good enough for

Newton, I have modestly decided to stop


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Arthur C Clarke


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This company was supposed tocome out with an OS called the

______Cobalt and mass marketthe same, which was to be basedon Linux for its touch-screen

devices, but at the end of 2008, itwas pretty obvious that the OSwould not see the light of

Consumer day when the companyunveiled their new product the

______which ran a completely

new firmware or OS called the


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2 It was set up3 The funnels stem was cut

There are have been 8 recorded occurrences so far.

December 1938February 1947

April 1954May 1962August 1970April 1979

July 1988

28 November 2000

Strangely enough, none of these occurrences haveactually been observed, apart from through recordingdevices such as cameras. Put funda.


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Pitch Drop experiment


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Connect


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Psychohistory


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The main problem for students to accept thisfact is that they are often "mentally committed

to the notion that a number can berepresented in one and only one way by adecimal." Seeing two different decimalsrepresenting the same number appears to be a

paradox. This problem proved such a populartopic in the first seven years of BlizzardEntertainment's Battle.net forums that thecompany issued a "press release" on AprilFools' Day 2004 that went:We are very excited to close the book on thissubject once and for all. .....and that the

following proof finally and conclusively


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The fact that 0.9999999 = 1


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The picture actually depicts a hostage situation, the gunmanseen in the picture, held off the authorities for the whole of 10hours.What is unique and totally embarrassing about this situation?


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gunman was holding off the police with a Sega Gun


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Wormhole

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wmembers of the Academy of Sciencesfounded at Paris in 1666. He is credited

for the "discovery" of eye's blind spot.He wrote many original papers upon agreat variety of physical subjects.

His fame rests on the establishment of afundamental law that bears his name

along with another name more famous.This was first published in an essay onthe nature of air in 1676.


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Boyles Law

X is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons


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Xis a semi solid mixture of hydrocarbons(with C numbers mainly higher than 25),originally promoted as an ointment for its

healing properties. Xs folkloric medicinalvalue as a "cure-all" has since been limitedby better scientific understanding of its

uses.

The raw material was discovered in 1859 in

Titusville, Pennsylvania where it was stuckto some of the first oil rigs in the U.S. Theworkers disliked X because it caused therigs to seize up, but they used it on cuts

and burns because it hastened healing. X ?


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Vaseline / petroleum jelly


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Nacreous clouds are clouds in the polar stratospheric

regions that support chemical reactions that produce

active chlorine, and they remove gaseous nitric acid,perturbing nitrogen and chlorine cycles. These clouds

are said to be the main cause for what?


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The hole in the antarctic ozone layer


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Rules

13 slides-3,3,3,3,1

+25/+20/+15/+10-1/2

Last slide - +5 No negs


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Answers


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Cabal


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Dry rounds


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Dry rounds

is the slowing of life processes by


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_________ g p yexternal means without termination.Breathing, heartbeat, and other involuntaryfunctions may still occur, but they can only bedetected by artificial means. Extreme cold isused to slow down the basic functions, and

has lead to the development of cryonics.While cryonics preserves the organism indead conditions, ________ keeps them alive.Outside of science fiction, the

technique has almost never been

applied to humans for more thana few hours.The case of Laina Beasley (in pic)is an exception; she was kept in

as a two-celled embryo


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Suspended Animation

"If now any separation of the systeml b li i


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R (real number line), into twoclasses A1,A2 is given whichpossesses only this characteristicproperty that every number a1 in A1is lesser than every number a2 in

A2, then we shall call such aseparation a 'schnitt' anddesignate it as the set (A1, A2)".

This schnitteffectively split the realnumber line into two parts - one setlesser than 2and one greater.

Words which revolutionised the way


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Dedekind, Dedekinds Cut

X comprises any idea or behavior that can pass


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from one person to another by learning orimitation through thoughts, ideas, gestures,

fashions, habits, and so on.

X propagate themselves and can move throughthe cultural sociosphere in a manner similar to the

contagious behavior of a virus. X evolve bynatural selection, through variation, mutation,competition, and inheritance.

Thus one can expect that some X will propagateless successfully and become extinct, while otherswill survive, spread, and (for better or for worse)mutate. It is argued that X which are most


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Meme

Tambalacoque (Calvaria Major) is also


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called_______. It is valued for its timber,

and is analogous to Peach. In 1973, itwas thought that this species was dyingout. There were supposedly only 13specimens left, all estimated to be about

300 years old.

The tree germinates by hard endocarpsurrounding the seed, but the endocarpnaturally splits along a fracture lineduring germination. What was the reasonproposed for this dying out? Or give

However the tree continues to


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Dodo tree

Put fundae


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The "standard interpretation" of the TuringTest, in which player C, the interrogator, is

tasked with trying to determine which

player - A or B - is a computer and whichis a human. The interrogator is limited to

using the responses to written questions in

order to make the determination.

Proposition 1. The 2300 prophetic days did notcommence before the rise of the little horn of the He


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Goat.2. Those day did not commence after the destruction

of Jerusalem & ye Temple by the Romans A.D. 70.3. The time times & half a time did not commencebefore the year 800 in wch the Popes supremacycommenced

4. They did not commence after the reigne of Gregorythe 7th. 10845. The 1290 days did not commence before the year842.6. They did not commence after the reigne of PopeGreg. 7th. 10847. The difference between the 1290 & 1335 days are aparts of the seven weeks.

Therefore the 2300 years do not end before ye year

2132 nor after 2370. The time times & half time dont


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s occult study proof that the world cannot end bef

Put Funda:


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For the QED interaction lagrangian,, describing the interaction of a fermionic field

with a bosonic gauge fieldA, the rules canbe formulated in coordinate space as follows: Each integration coordinatexj is represented by

a point (sometimes called a vertex); A bosonic propagator is represented by a curvy

line connecting two points; A fermionic propagator is represented by a solidline connecting two points;

A bosonic fieldA(xi) is represented by a curvyline attached to the pointxi;

A fermionic field (xi) is represented by a solidline attached to the pointxi with an arrowtoward the point;

A fermionic field (xi) is represented by asolid line attached to the pointxi with an arrow

from the point;


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Rules for drawing Feynman Diagrams

On June 8, 1959, the U.S. submarine Barbero


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Jconducted this test as a combination experimentand publicity stunt in the hopes of findingalternative uses for military technology. Theyused a warhead-less Regulus cruise missile forthe experiment. The Regulus left Norfolk(Virginia), and was opened at Mayport to

facilitate further routing.It was claimed that this wouldmake missiles very popularfor this extremely commonand practical application

before man reached themoon. (Thankfully!) Thisturned out to be the 1st andlast such attempt to do WHAT

using Regulus missles?


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Missile Mail

The basic game play style became a popular partf th l d i th 1980 ith


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of the puzzle game genre during the 1980s, withsuch titles as _____-Out and Yomp. Then cameRelentless Logic (or RLogic), which was availablefor MS-DOS as early as 1985.

In RLogic, the player is a private in the US MarineCorps, delivering an important message to theU.S. Command Center. RLogic was a gamewithout any high scores, which required the

player to navigate through a field from the topleft corner (starting point) to the bottom rightcorner (the Command Center). What came of allthis?


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Minesweeper


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Minesweeper

s s e response o some ng. ar ssa ayer, , earcProducts & User Experience explains as:

"We periodically receive updates to that list and received one


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We periodically receive updates to that list and received onesuch update to release on the site this morning. Unfortunately

(and heres the human error), the URL of / was mistakenlychecked in as a value to the file and / expands to all URLs.Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problemquickly and reverted the file. Since we push these updates in astaggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing

between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearingbetween 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem forany particular user was approximately 40 minutes.

Thanks to our team for their quick work in finding this. And

again, our apologies to any of you who were inconveniencedthis morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectlylabeled. We will carefully investigate this incident and put morerobust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again.

"


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Google declares internet as malware


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used for precious metals, black powder, andgemstones. The name supposedly derives from ______in France, site of one of the major medieval fairs. One


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, jcubic inch of distilled water, at 17 C, and at a

barometric pressure of 30 inches of Hg, wasdetermined to weigh 252.458 ____ grains.

One ____ lb (pound) = 12 ____ ouncesOne ____ oz = 20 pennyweight (dwt) = 480 grains =33.3 gramsOne pennyweight = 24 grains

The ____ system was the basis for the pre-

decimalisation British system of coinage, in which thepenny was literally one pennyweight of silver. Onepound sterling was equal to 20 shillings, with eachshilling equal to 12 pennies. Thus, one pound sterling

equals 240 pennyweights or one pound of sterling


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Troy systems of measurements

Before John McCain unveiled Sarah Palin as his


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running mate, the following list of people were in

with a shot. X and Y are two former powerhouseSilicon Valley CEOs.

Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

Former Arkansas Governor Mik HuckabeeConnecticut Senator Joseph LiebermanAlaska Governor Sarah PalinX

YMinnesota Governor Tim PawlentyFormer Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney


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Meg Whitman & Carly Fiorina

The sages of Milesian school in Ionia in

ancient Greece aimed to discover the


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ancient Greece aimed to discover the

essential nature, or real constitution of, things

they called X. This lent a strong mysticalflavour to the Milesian school. They were

called hylozoists, or those who think matter

is alive, by the later Greeks, because theysaw no distinction between the animate and

the inanimate, spirit and matter. In fact, they

did not even have a word for matter, sincethey saw all forms of existence as

manifestations of X, endowed with life and

spirituality. Give X, or the term it gives rise to.


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Physis The origin of the wordPhysics.

The Three Virtues of a Programmer:

1. Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great


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1. Laziness The quality that makes you go to greateffort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you

write labor-saving programs that other people will finduseful, and document what you wrote so you don't have toanswer so many questions about it. Hence, the first greatvirtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See alsoimpatience and hubris.

2. Impatience - The anger you feel when the computer isbeing lazy. This makes you write programs that don't justreact to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or atleast pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a

programmer. See also laziness and hubris.

3. Hubris - Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zapsyou for. Also the quality that makes you write (andmaintain) programs that other people won't want to say


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Larry Wall and Perl

Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunctcomputer manufacturer Symbolics Inc and a


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computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and aprivately held company that acquired the assets

of the former company and continues to sell andmaintain the Open Genera Lisp system and theMacsyma computer algebra system.

Symbolics designed and manufactured a line ofLisp machines, single-user computers optimizedto run the Lisp programming language.

The Lisp Machine was the first commerciallyavailable "workstation" (although that word hadnot yet been coined).

A picture of a process running in a Symbolics


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The first ever .com domain

Nicolaus was a contemporary of Euler. In


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p y1720 he posed the problem of reciprocal

orthogonal trajectories, which was intended asa challenge for the English Newtonians.

Daniel is most famous for formulating a lawthat is based upon the principle of the

conservation of energy as applied to steadystate fluid motion.

In 1690, Jacob became the first person todevelop the technique for solving separabledifferential equations.

Johann was one of Eulers teachers when hewas at Basel University, and is now

acknowledged to be the actual proponent of a


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Bernoulli family


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theme


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Theme

12 questions; 4 sets of 3 pics each

1-3: +20

4-6: +15

7-9: +10

10 12: +5

-5 FLAT.

A professor of physics is going ice skating for the first time. Hehas gotten himself into the middle of an ice rink and cannot figure

out how to make the skates work. Every motion he makes simply


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slips on the ice and leaves him in the same place he started. He

decides that he can get off the ice by throwing his gloves in theopposite direction.

(a) Suppose he has a mass M and his gloves have a mass m. If

he throws them as hard as he can away from him, and they leave

his hand with a velocity v. Explain whether or not he will move. If

he does move, calculate his velocity, V.

(b) Discuss his motion from the point of view of the forces acting

on him.

(c) If the ice rink is 10 m in diameter and the skater starts in the

center, estimate how long it will take him to reach the edge,

assuming there is no friction at all

The orbiting Hubble telescope was

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y p y

astronauts from the Space Shuttle

Endeavor. The Hubble is in a

circular orbit 600 km above the

surface of the earth. For half of the

Hubble's orbital period it is in

sunlight and for half it is in the

darkness of the earth's shadow. As

a results of the change in fit of thevarious parts of the Hubble due to

heating and cooling of the

telescope, the astronauts could

only work on certain repairs while

the Hubble was in darkness.

Estimate how much time theastronauts had to work on these

repairs before having to stop "for a

sun-break".

In the 1989 Loma

Prieta earthquake in

California


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California,

approximately 2 million

books fell off the

shelves at the Stanford

University library. If you

were the library

administrator andwanted to hire enough

part-time student labor

to put the books back

on the shelves in orderin 2 weeks, how many

students would you

have to hire?

The density of water is just

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about 1000 kg/m 3 . The

density of air is just about1000 times less. From

your knowledge of the air

pressure at ground level,

estimate the height of the

atmosphere. As asimplifying assumption,

take the atmosphere to be

of uniform density up to

some height after whichthe density rapidly falls to

zero.

The Drake equation states that:

N = R* x fp x ne x f x fi x fc x L


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N R x fp x ne x f x fix fcx L

where:N= No of civilizations in our galaxy with which

communication might be possible;

R* = average rate of star formation in our galaxy

fp = fraction of those stars that have planets

ne = average number of planets that can

potentially support life per star that has planetsf = fraction of the above that actually go on to

develop life at some point

fi= fraction of the above that actually go on to

develop intelligent life

fc= fraction of civilizations that develop a

technology that releases detectable signs oftheir existence into space

L = length of time such civilizations release

detectable signals into space.

No. of


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How Many Cells?


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How many jelly beans in a jar?


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Piano Tuner


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