Electronics: The Discovery
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Physics, Other
10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
In Thales' Ancient Greek language, what did they call amber?
Photon
Electron
Neutron
Proton
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
Sir Thomas Browne coined what word?
electricity
eclectrics
electronic
elasticity
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
Which two substances did Charles Du Fay find he was unable to turn into electrics?
iron and zinc
crystal and hair
metals and fluid
silk and wood
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
When Benjamin Franklin said an object was "positively charged," he meant that it had ...
... no electrical fluid at all.
... an excess of electrical fluid.
... the highest amount of electrical fluid.
... less electrical fluid than usual.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
In 1897, J.J. Thompson, working in Cambridge, England, discovered that the electrical fluid described by Franklin was actually made up of:
A fluid much less dense than air, so it's stored in clouds
Bits of dust that combined their energy
Small particles later named electrons
Stones, named after the physicist George Stoney
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