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  • 22-02-2008 11:05pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭


    Right, hope this works

    Just answer the question from the previous post and then ask your own question and so on...

    What is Desdemona's father's name in the play Othello?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭Yuugib


    Brabantio!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭alan4cult


    Who wrote the poem the Pomegranate?


  • Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭conbob


    alan4cult wrote: »
    Who wrote the poem the Pomegranate?

    eavan boland.... :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,401 ✭✭✭shortys94


    Nevermind, it is Boland. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Timans


    shortys94 wrote: »
    Nevermind, it is Boland. :)
    No, it was Eavan Boland.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭alan4cult


    What is the german word for obesity?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Timans


    alan4cult wrote: »
    What is the german word for obesity?
    Normal.


  • Registered Users Posts: 83,534 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Whats Othello about, in 6 sentences or less?


  • Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭Yuugib


    The play is about the evilness of people and how they can be easily manipulated. Othello is driven to madness by Iago, who has brought the green-eyed monster on him. Othello is so blinded by this, that he fails to realise the truth and innosence of his wife and friends. In the end he ends up murduring his wife, setts up traps to kill his friend and finally kills him self when he realises that he was wrong about the whole jelousy situation.

    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭Yuugib


    What is "Step cost" ?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭daggy


    Nice idea.. i cant answer most of them. But HEY. Formula for Centripetal force and acceleration anyone? BAM.


  • Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭ian.f


    daggy wrote: »
    Formula for Centripetal force and acceleration anyone? BAM.

    Acceleration = V x Omega

    F= ma = M x V x Omega = (mv^2)/r = M x Omega^2 x R



    Define the law of Diminishing Marginal Returns.... Who contributed to forming the law


  • Registered Users Posts: 83,534 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Yuugib wrote: »
    The play is about the evilness of people and how they can be easily manipulated. Othello is driven to madness by Iago, who has brought the green-eyed monster on him. Othello is so blinded by this, that he fails to realise the truth and innosence of his wife and friends. In the end he ends up murduring his wife, setts up traps to kill his friend and finally kills him self when he realises that he was wrong about the whole jelousy situation.

    :D

    for 10 marks I'd give that 6/10 but thats an amateur's take on it. You start of good by discussing the themes of evilness (not a word btw... and can i suggest 'morality'?) and manipulation; truth and innocence. I assume the Green Eyed monster is envy? Having not ever read Othello mind you.

    "Othello portrays misplaced trust, immorality and manipulation. Driven to mad envy by his friend Iago and a Green-Eyed Monster, Othello is blinded from the innocent nature of his wife and loved ones." <-- at this point I'd have added more to be honest, but again I havent read Othello but I'm sure theres more you can say here: What moral did Othello learn from his ordeal in the end? What did Iago become? Why did Iago manipulate Othello?

    wou maybe I can extract the whole play out of you this way :)



    The inverse square law of Physics for daggy: and give me the three (I think its 3) applications/forumae of the inverse square law in your physics course.


  • Registered Users Posts: 674 ✭✭✭kaki


    Coulomb's Law, Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and....um....light intensity in the photoelectric effect??


    Biology: Define negative feedback


  • Registered Users Posts: 83,534 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    kaki wrote: »
    Coulomb's Law, Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and....um....light intensity in the photoelectric effect??

    que?

    An the inverse square law that governs two bodies states that 2 point masses attract each other with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely proportional to the square distance between them.

    Gravity: (G x M1 x M2) / d^2 where G is the gravitational Constant

    Charges: [1/(4 x pi x e)] X [(Q1 x Q2) / d^2] <-- where 1/4x pi x e accounts for the permitivity of the medium (eg. a vaccum or air)

    the Photoelectric law is not one of the inverse square laws. I was mistaken and there appears to be only 2 such laws in the course.

    ----

    Recite word perfect (hopefully from memory) Newton's 3 laws of motion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Cokehead Mother


    A particle will move at constant velocity unless acted on by a force.

    The rate of change in momentum of a particle is proportional to the applied force and takes place in the direction of the force.

    Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

    Not word perfect, but the gist is there.

    How would one factorise x^3 - y^3?


  • Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭conbob


    A particle will move at constant velocity unless acted on by a force.

    The rate of change in momentum of a particle is proportional to the applied force and takes place in the direction of the force.

    Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

    Not word perfect, but the gist is there.

    How would one factorise x^3 - y^3?

    (x+y)^3-3xy(x-y) :D

    who was hitlers architect?


  • Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭ian.f



    How would one factorise x^3 - y^3?
    conbob wrote: »
    (x+y)^3-3xy(x-y) :D

    Pretty sure that the above would give you a positive y^3 when he wants - y^3

    Without thinking about it enough to be sure I'm right I'd just go for difference of 2 squares and say:
    (x^3/2 + y^3/2) (x^3/2 - y^3/2 )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭KeyLimePie


    Albert Speer

    Define Electronegativity
    (Chemistry)


  • Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭ian.f


    The electronegativity is a measure of the power of attraction of an atom
    for a shared pair of electrons.



    Who does John Donne mainly address in his poetry


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    Give the 2 conditions which tRNA must have, in order for it to connect to mRNA, in order for it to carry out its specific translation and in order for it to form the correct amino acid chain.


  • Registered Users Posts: 495 ✭✭jakedixon2004


    Who does John Donne mainly address in his poetry
    Either this mistress or God
    _____________________________________________________________

    Name one of the Allied losses in the Second World War


  • Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭daggy


    crud... i had physics mocks today, mother of god it was DIABOLICAL.
    Hahah most of the 56 markers i scraped about 12marks.

    BUT i did know my electricity hup, and it came up and i kicked ass but other than that it was terrible.
    But does somebody want to answer this :

    "When a gun fires a bullet the kinetic energy gained by the bullet is much greater than that gained by the gun. Explain "

    couldnt quite manage it today... yes , i know it's probably shockingly easy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 495 ✭✭jakedixon2004


    Is that Higher or ordinary?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Cokehead Mother


    Kinetic energy equals (1/2)(m)(v^2)

    So even though the m of the gun is a lot bigger, v^2 is like teeny compared to the bullet's v^2 so it works out much less.

    But that's really just an assumption so I dunno if you'd get the marks for it.

    Nobody answered the last Q so I won't ask one.


  • Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭daggy


    That's pretty much what i wrote... bit of waffle.
    mmkay. It's higher !


  • Registered Users Posts: 83,534 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Under the principle of Conservation of Momentum:

    Momentum before firing = Momentum After firing

    M[gun]*u[gun] + M[bullet]*u[bullet] = M[gun]*V[gun] + M[bullet]*v[bullet]

    Example: If the gun is 3kg and the bullet is 0.03kg we have:

    3*0 + 0.03*0 = 3*v[gun] + 0.03*v[bullet]

    *algebra*: 0 = 3*vG + 0.03vB

    so: 3*vG = 0.03*vB

    hence the velocity of the bullet B will be much greater than the velocity of the gun G; which satisfies the Principle of Conservation of Momentum [and satisfying its equation]. for instance if the velocity attained by the gun was 1ms^-1 , the bullet of much lower mass would need a velocity of 100ms^-1 to balance the equation.

    This also holds true for the conservation of energy, so that
    >> the Energy before the reaction = Energy after
    >> Energy of the bullet = Energy of the gun
    >> (1/2*m*v^2 = 1/2*m*v^2) so you can make the same arguing point. You may assume no energy is lost in the reaction to outside influences (heat, light, sound, etc.) unless the question specifies there is energy lost in the reaction.

    **edited for forwardly mentioned typo**


  • Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Peleus


    ian.f wrote: »

    Define the law of Diminishing Marginal Returns.... Who contributed to forming the law
    The law of Deminishing marginal returns states that as more and more of a variable factor is added to a fixed factor, a stage will enentually be reached where returns begin to decline.
    and im gonna say it was john maynard keynes????

    State the two laws of elecromagnetic induction.


  • Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Peleus


    Overheal wrote: »

    >> (1/2*m*v^2 = 1/2*m*v^-2) .....

    should that "...v^-2..." not be "...v^2..." why the minus? or is that just a typo?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Cokehead Mother


    E = -N(dO/dt) where O = magnetic flux and E = induced emf

    The induced emf will be in a direction such as to oppose the change that produced it?

    What's the past participle of 'boire' in french?


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