Absolute Zero Questions:
Name _______________________
1. How did Cornelis Drebbel Cool the great Hall of Westminster?
2. How did Robert Boyl prove that “cold” was NOT a substance?
3. What experiment did Amontons prove about pressures of gas and temperature?
4. What is “cold” in the “Caloric” theory?
5. How did Rumford prove that Heat is motion of molecules, and cold is less motion?
6. How does New England become the “Refrigerator for the World?”
7. How did Joule prove that heat converted directly into mechanical work?
8. What are the first two laws of thermodynamics?
9. Where does the heat go from water freezing in an ice making machine, or refrigerator?
10. Why did Birdseye’s frozen fish stay fresh?
11. To liquify the “permanent” gases, what is the technique to get the temperature low enough?
12. How did Dewar prove that he had liquid Hydrogen?
13. At what temperature does Helium liquify?
14. How much resistance is there with superconductivity?
15. How much viscosity does a super fluid have?
16. What is a Bose Einstein Condensate?
17. Who won the race to the Bose Einstein Condensate?
18. What happens to light when it moves into a Bose Einstein Condensate?
19. What is the coldest temperature reached as of the making of the movie?