Tie-breakers, Pack 2

Transylvania University Academic Tournament

Feb. 12, 2000

1.

The unit of capacitance is derived from the name of a famous British scientist. Name this scientist.
Answer: Michael Faraday

2.

Find the area of the region bounded by the x-axis, the lines x=0 and x=3, and the function y=2x²+4x (read: y equals two x squared plus four x).
Answer: 36 (square units)

3.

Sixteenth-century philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne invented what literary genre?
Answer: the essay

4.

When an atom gains electrons, it is said to have undergone what?
Answer: a reduction

5.

Find the determinant of a three by three matrix with rows: 2, 4, 3; 0, 5, -1; and 0, 0, 7.
Answer: 70

6.

Over the course of what years was World War I fought?
Answer: 1914-1918