Midsummer Common

Summer Galloppen - 25 June 2003

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             R1   R2  GN    T   TT
Russ L       75  105  17  -46  151
Peter G      75  100  16  -49  142
Mark C       70  105  20  -55  140
Blanka S     75  105  15  -62  133
Julia W      75  100  22  -65  132
Bruce M      65  110  19  -67  127
Maurice H    75  105  13  -68  126
Roger H      75  105  18  -72  126
team TSM     70   95  20  -75  110
Jean S       65   85  13  -62  101
Nicola G     75  105      -83   97 
Maria M      60   85  17  -67   95
Ian L        75   90  13  -86   92
Simon G      75   15   4  -42   52
Helen B      75        9  -39   45
Hazel B      70       22  -58   34
Hemmingways  40   40   9  -71   18

P1 = part one (5 points per correct answer)
P2 = part two (5 points per correct answer)
T  = time (-1 point for each complete minute)
GN = general knowledge (max of 5 points per answer)
TT = total score

 


  

    
    
  

    
    
  





    		
    
      
Organisers Comments

      
It was very rewarding to see
      so many turn up on Wednesday - and everyone seemed to enjoy their run.
      Although I only planned the courses the day before, Abbey Scaffolding
      decided to finish their work inbetween times, and dismantled their
      scaffolding which included a sign. It was suggested that next year I
      should place an 'event in progress - do not move' notice on vulnerable
      control sites!

      
And here are the answers to
      those general knowledge questions:

      
In 1798 Henry Cavendish
      measured the gravitational constant G. He did this using a torsion balance
      and several heavy spheres. Once G and the radius of the earth were known,
      the mass of the earth was calculated. So you could say that Cavendish
      'weighed the earth'. The Cavendish Laboratory was built in the 1870's and
      paid for by the seventh Duke of Devonshire who was a distant relative of
      Henry Cavendish.

      
Beagle 2 is the British built
      lander onboard Mars Express, a European Space Agency probe. It's due to
      arrive at Mars on Christmas Day 2003 and the mission is to look for
      life.  There is strong evidence that water, which is considered
      conducive for life, once existed on Mars but is now frozen at the poles or
      underground.

      
Special relativity is based on
      two simple postulates: the laws of physics are the same in all inertial
      frames of reference; the speed of light is the same in all inertial frames
      of reference. From these postulates we derive E = mc^2. An inertial frame
      of reference is one which is not accelerating.

      
An (isolated) electron is a
      spin half particle, meaning its spin quantum number is equal to one half.
      Although intrinsic angular momentum is assumed in the calculation of
      electron spin, there is no experimental evidence to suggest that an
      electron is actually spinning. Indeed, an electron is a point particle
      without any structure.

      
A pure semiconductor, at
      absolute zero, has a full conduction band whereas a metal has a partly
      filled one. Focusing on semiconductors, as the temperature increases
      electrons are thermally excited out of the conduction band into the
      valence band. Hence, it is the conductance against temperature
      characteristics that most readily distinguish a semiconductor from a metal
      or insulator. Common semiconductors are silicon, germanium, and gallium-arsenide.

      
Rolf

      
Competitors Comments

      
But Rolf - the bit of paper I
      had was too small to write all that!

      
Roger
    

  











 
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