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Which is the first women's university in India?

  1. SNDT

  2. Mother Teresa Women's University

  3. Avinashilingam University for women

  4. SPMVV


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

T he Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey University, formerly known as the Indian women’s university, was India’s first women’s college.

Who enunciated the principle of equipartition of energy?

  1. Ludwig Bolizmann

  2. Joseph Stefan

  3. Sir James Hopwood Jeans

  4. James Prescott Joule


Correct Option: A

He introduced a triatomic theory of colour vision, was the first to observe ocular astigmatism, he proved that the accommodation of eye was affected by change of curvature of the crystalline lens, but most famour for his discovery of interference of light and for developing the wave theory of light. Who was this physician-cum-physicist?

  1. Augustin Jean F. Fresnel

  2. Humphrey Lloyd

  3. Christiaan Huygens

  4. Thomas Young


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The triatomic theory of colour vision. The interference of light and for developing the wave theory of light. The physician -cum-physicist was Thomas Young.

Who was the first to introduce the concept of antiparticle theoretically. ?

  1. Niels Bohr

  2. Ernest Rutherford

  3. Albert Einstein

  4. Paul Dirac


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The concept of antiparticle was first introduced theoretically by Paul Dirac in $1930$.

What Benjamin Franklin invented?

  1. Bifocal spectacles

  2. Radio

  3. Barometer

  4. Hygrometer


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Benjamin Franklin Invented Bifocal spectacle in 1760. Benjamin Franklin's had poor vision and needed glasses to read. He got tired of constantly taking them off and putting them back on, so he decided to figure out a way to make his glasses let him see both near and far. He had two pairs of spectacles cut in half and put half of each lens in a single frame. Today, we call them bifocals.

Who in $1939$ suggested the name meson for middle-weight particles?

  1. Abraham Pais

  2. Homi J. Bhabha

  3. Hideki Yukawa

  4. C. Anderson


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In $1939$, Homi Jehangir Bhabha suggested the name meson for middle weight particles.

Who was the first pre-Socratic philosopher to suggest that matter could neither be created nor destroyed?

  1. kepler

  2. Newton

  3. parmenides

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Parmenides was the first pre-Socratic philosopher to suggest that matter could neither be created nor destroyed.

Hence,
option $(C)$ is correct answer.

Light pollution is caused when

  1. the ozone layer is damaged

  2. too much of light sources are used unnecessarily

  3. light sources pointing up to the sky rather than down to the earth

  4. sources of light are polluted


Correct Option: C

The volume of a single liquid drop can be measured using a :

  1. measuring jar

  2. measuring flask

  3. pipette

  4. burette


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is not the contribution of Sir Issac Newton?

  1. Universal Law of Gravitation

  2. Laws of Motion

  3. Ultra Short Radio Waves

  4. Reflecting Telescope


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Sir J. C. Bose discovered Ultra Short Radio Waves.