87.5%. Last physics class was in high school over 30 years ago. And I think I deserve 90% because I don’t like their answer for #14. 
80% for this English major. I’m surprised – I was guessing as I took the test that I’d end up at around 60%, because I wasn’t sure about many of those answers.
I got a 95%. Missed 17 and 26.
I have a geology degree and only did so-so in physiscs.
Um, 45%.
And, okay, in some science class I had in high school the instructor made a Very Big Deal out of steam v. water vapor. Boiling teapots, etc. Steam is what you can’t see, water vapor is what you can see, etc.
I would say I got it backwards but my husband remembers the same. From a different school, different state, and different decade.
Still a pretty bad score, though. But then I don’t actually believe in physics.
I like these kinds of quizzes. I got a 90%.
Missed #8 because I’m still confused about energy despite studying it for years in high school/college.
Missed #28 partly because I second-guessed my original answer.
Missed #29 because it was the one about the clouds.
Missed #31 because it seemed like a trick question. (Their explanation told me stuff I didn’t know, though.)
85%
Not half bad for a formula-hating arithmetic-hating non-hard-sciences person like me
92.5%. I missed 15, 29, and 36. Remind me to kick Ben Franklin next time I see him.
90%…I missed three, but after reading the explanations, I better understand the test’s terminology. Water vapor vs waterdroplets…I knew that! (darn it!)
97.5 %
I knew I shouldn’t think about voltage!
With all the “Dopers” reporting their scores and in particular, which questions they got wrong or which ones were unfair, I decided to copy the entire test to a geocities free website I have. (I have noted the appropriate credit and copyright).
It’s easier to reference the questions this way, the true false “buttons” have been removed and the text is bigger.
Here is the link:
http://www.geocities.com/internet_web_surfer_dude/physics.htm
There is a lot of confusion about steam and water vapor because in everyday, non-scientific terminology they are different. However, this was a physics quiz and the physics terminology should be used. Your high school instructor was wrong. Water vapor consists of individual water molecules that form a gas and the assembly of water molecules acts just like any other gas. Invisible, doesn’t form a free surface, expands to fill its container, etc.
If you set a pan of water on the kitchen counter it will gradually evaporate. What comes off the surface is water vapor and you can’t see it. The stuff you can see that comes out of a tea kettle is tiny droplets of liquid water and is properly called mist.
85%, I shouldn’t have rushed or I would have gotten a couple more right just for reading them correctly.
90% here. I missed:
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Energy…work…yeah, whatever.
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Duh. Brain fart here. F=m1m2 over whatever. So the force is the same for both.
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Yeah, me too. But upon reflection, I agree the answer is “false.”
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I SUCKED at electrical physics in college. For some reason, I’ve just never been able to wrap my head around it. Odd.
Not bad, though. Better than I would have expected. I bet I would have done better on a quiz about subatomic particle physics.
I got a 90%. I never actually took a physics class, but I read a lot of science articles. For those of you complaining about semantics, remember that science uses strict definitions of words that may or may not correspond to the popular definitions. I especially can’t see anything wrong with question 16 - acceleration is a change in velocity, which can be speed, direction, or both. The question clearly states that the car is going around a corner, therefore changing direction, therefore changing velocity, therefore accelerating.
The ones I missed are 15, 29, 34, and 36.
'Nuther 87.5. The cloud tripped me up.
Another EE who missed that one. Sorry, I hate playing the semantics game. I ended up with a 90% overall, but that pissed me off. Sure, it’s not really a ‘force’ but it’s the reason the electrons are moving.
Right. It might not in and of itself be a force but it sure acts like one. And isn’t electro-motive force the common name for a potential difference. From another EE who missed it. I think the question was poorly worded (cried the losers).
90%. And me a starving poet. I’d like to thank professors Heinlein and Asimov
P.S. I’m also a little torqued over the one about a feather and a hammer on the moon. This was billed as a basic physics test but I don’t think the fact that the moon might have a teeny, weeny residual atmosphere is part of basic physics.
92.5% I missed 8 which was a flat out screw up on my part. Missed 29, which I don’t feel too bad about since it was a definitional question rather than a conceptual question, and everyone else seemed to miss it too. Missed 34 on voltage. I would have felt better about 34 if they had actually told us what the force IS that moves electrons through a circuit. I mean, electrons are partices with mass, right? And they go from moving nowhere to moving somewhere when you connect the circuit, right? So, some force is applied to the electron, from some source and makes it move, what is it if not voltage?