Science and Art- PHYS 150 Exam Questions with correct answers
Which of the following is one of the words we will use as an attribute better identified with Art? -
✅✅Subjective- feelings
What word has been used to describe the functionality of an object that may keep us from seeing its art
or science? - ✅✅Wallness
An example we used in class where a Jewish poet writing in German inspired a German artist to produce
pairs of artpieces name Shulamith and Margarethe showed this aspect of Art: - ✅✅emotional
We have examined the history of art as a tension between - ✅✅transformation and continuity
An example we saw in class of the tension described in #4 was - ✅✅tree of life
The first purpose for making art was in service to - ✅✅religion/myth
The Egyptian civilization valued stability and used this technique to create images that did not vary over
time: - ✅✅grid systems
In medieval times, space and time became discontinuous. An art form that illustrated this new model of
thinking was: - ✅✅Mosaic
The left arm and right leg are bent and relaxed and the right arm and lift leg are straight and tense
shows: - ✅✅Chiastic balance
The rise of all the art "isms" can be summarized based on what artists chose to - ✅✅exaggerate
This civilization is credited with questioning nature for the first time - ✅✅greeks
, In the history of science as we have traced it in class, the Greek Thales is credited with saying that there
are rules of nature and that these rules are - ✅✅knowable to humans
In Greek, "no cut" literally translates to - ✅✅atom
This belief says there is a cause or reason for every event: - ✅✅determinism
The feats of domed ceiling and arches to support heavy weight were developed by the - ✅✅roman
engineers
The use of a pendulum to measure time was developed by - ✅✅galileo
the characteristic of a pendulum that must be changed to change the time it measures is the -
✅✅length of the string
Newton's three laws of motion and law of gravity served to make people think of the universe as -
✅✅mechanical
the scientist showed light behaves like particles: - ✅✅Einstein
In the history of science as we have traced it in class, Quantum Mechanics says that there are rules of
nature and that there is always some information that - ✅✅is unknowable
Thales visited Egypt- 600 BC and developed the process of triangulation after he saw: - ✅✅Triangles
on the pyramids
For Pythagoras, the squares of the sides of a right triangle and the square of the hypotenuse were -
✅✅literal squares
in the last 2500 years only these many platonic solids have been found - ✅✅5
Which of the following is one of the words we will use as an attribute better identified with Art? -
✅✅Subjective- feelings
What word has been used to describe the functionality of an object that may keep us from seeing its art
or science? - ✅✅Wallness
An example we used in class where a Jewish poet writing in German inspired a German artist to produce
pairs of artpieces name Shulamith and Margarethe showed this aspect of Art: - ✅✅emotional
We have examined the history of art as a tension between - ✅✅transformation and continuity
An example we saw in class of the tension described in #4 was - ✅✅tree of life
The first purpose for making art was in service to - ✅✅religion/myth
The Egyptian civilization valued stability and used this technique to create images that did not vary over
time: - ✅✅grid systems
In medieval times, space and time became discontinuous. An art form that illustrated this new model of
thinking was: - ✅✅Mosaic
The left arm and right leg are bent and relaxed and the right arm and lift leg are straight and tense
shows: - ✅✅Chiastic balance
The rise of all the art "isms" can be summarized based on what artists chose to - ✅✅exaggerate
This civilization is credited with questioning nature for the first time - ✅✅greeks
, In the history of science as we have traced it in class, the Greek Thales is credited with saying that there
are rules of nature and that these rules are - ✅✅knowable to humans
In Greek, "no cut" literally translates to - ✅✅atom
This belief says there is a cause or reason for every event: - ✅✅determinism
The feats of domed ceiling and arches to support heavy weight were developed by the - ✅✅roman
engineers
The use of a pendulum to measure time was developed by - ✅✅galileo
the characteristic of a pendulum that must be changed to change the time it measures is the -
✅✅length of the string
Newton's three laws of motion and law of gravity served to make people think of the universe as -
✅✅mechanical
the scientist showed light behaves like particles: - ✅✅Einstein
In the history of science as we have traced it in class, Quantum Mechanics says that there are rules of
nature and that there is always some information that - ✅✅is unknowable
Thales visited Egypt- 600 BC and developed the process of triangulation after he saw: - ✅✅Triangles
on the pyramids
For Pythagoras, the squares of the sides of a right triangle and the square of the hypotenuse were -
✅✅literal squares
in the last 2500 years only these many platonic solids have been found - ✅✅5
