Mr C's 'Best Round of the Morning on Physics and Astronomy'

Mr Scott is running a dirty nappy to the bin. If he moves at a speed of 9.5m/s, and the bin is a distance of 12m away, how long does it take him to get there?

• 110s

• 1.2s

• 0.79s

• 21.5s

Mrs Tolba is baking a cake and needs to know the units of specific heat capacity in order to set the oven correctly. Which are the correct units?

• kgm/s

• J/kg.K

• Joules

• Nm

Mr Inskip is listening to his transistor radio. The radio waves are...

• Transverse

• Longitudinal

Mr Dempster is trekking through the jungle. The steam rises from his sweaty head due to...

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Sublimation

Mrs Tomlinson is rewiring a plug. The live wire is...

• Green and yellow

• Blue

• Brown

• Connected at the top of the plug

Mr Calverd is scoring the winner for Arsenal. He applies a force of 200N for 0.2s on a ball of mass 0.8kg. What velocity does it fly into the net at?

• 32 m/s

• 800m/s

• 1,250m/s

• 50m/s

Dr Tomlinson is holding a radioactive source. It has a halflife of 2 days. How much of it will be undecayed after 8 days

• 12.5%

• 50%

• 25%

• 6.25%

Dr Harvey is cool. So cool in fact, that he is at absolute zero, which is equal to...

• -273.14 degrees C

• -273.15 degrees C

• -273.16 degrees C

• -273.17 degrees C

Miss Nixon is stargazing. She is looking at a very hot star, that is not actually undergoing nuclear reactions. This is a...

• Red Giant Star

• Main Sequence Star

• White Dwarf Star

• Blue Supergiant Star

'Dark matter' is a term used to explain why...

• Galaxies are the shape they are

• The universe is expanding faster than ever before

• The theoretical speed of an object is always below the measured speed

• Physics clinic is always empty