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A. Periscope
B. Kelvin
C. Fathometer
D. Hygrometer
Answer
B. Kelvin
Submitted by: Toheed Ahmed
The ________ is used for viewing Distant Objects.
A. Microphone
B. Kelvin
C. Sextant
D. Telescope
Answer
D. Telescope
Submitted by: Toheed Ahmed
The __________ is a unit of Sound.
A. Kelvin
B. Decibel
C. Light year
D. Ampere
Answer
B. Decibel
Submitted by: Toheed Ahmed
The instrument used to measure Electric Current is _________?
A. Periscope
B. Venturi Tube
C. Joule
D. Ammeter
Answer
D. Ammeter
Submitted by: Toheed Ahmed
“Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport” is located in_________?
A. Cyprus
B. Turkey
C. UAE
D. Egypt
Answer
B. Turkey
Submitted by: Engr. Abdul Hafeez
Measuring Tools – Everyday Science
| Pressure | Barometer |
| Voltage | Voltmeter |
| Purity Of Milk | Lactometer |
| Temperature | Thermometer |
| Velocity Of Wind | Anemometer |
| Earthquake | Richter Scale |
| Degree Of Humidity | Hygrometer |
| Blood Pressure | Sphygmomanometer |
| Radioactivity | Geiger Counter |
| High Temperature | Pyrometer |
| Rainfall | Rain Guage |
| Earthquake Recording | Seismograph |
| Electric current | Ammeter |
| Altitude | Altimeter |
| Velocity And Direction Of Wind | Anemometer |
| Sensitivity Of Skin | Algeismeter |
| Atmospheric Pressure | Aneriodograph/Barometer |
| Improvement Of Hearing Power | Audiometer |
| Quantity Of Heat | Calorimeter |
| Intensities Of Colours | Colorimeter |
| Longitude Of Vessel Over Sea | Chronometer |
| Detection Of Electric Charge | Electroscope |
| Voltage Difference | Electrometer |
| Depth Of The Ocean | Fathometer |
| Small Electric Current | Galvanometer |
| Relative Density of Liquids | Hydrometer |
| Change In Atmospheric Humidity | Hygroscope |
| Detection And Measurement of Light | Photoelectric Cell |
| Salinity of Water | Salinometer |
| Spectrum Analysis | Spectroscope |
| Hearing of Heartbeat And Lung Sound | Stethoscope |
| Maintenance of A Constant Temperature | Thermostat |
| Amplification Of Current | Transistor |
| Measurement of Potential Difference Between Two Points | Voltammeter |
| Flow Of Air | Aerometer |
| Radiant Energy | Radiometer |
| Conversion Of Rays Into Mechanical energy | Radiograph |
| Measurement Of Intensity Of Light | Lucimeter |
Which was first country to recognize Pakistan?
A. Afghanistan
B. Saudi Arabia
C. Iran
D. Bangladesh
Answer
C. Iran
Submitted by: Engr. Abdul Hafeez
Discoveries/Inventions – Everyday Science
| Discoveries/Inventions | Scientists |
| Atomic Number | Mosley |
| Antiseptic Medicine | Joseph Lister |
| Aeroplane | Wilbur and Orville Wright |
| AK-47 | Mikhail Kalashnikov |
| Bicycle | Macmillan |
| Binomial Nomenclature | Carl Von Linnaeus |
| Bacteriology | Pasteur |
| Battery | Alessandro Volta |
| Big Bang Theory | Georges Lemaitre |
| Bakelite | Baekeland |
| Ballpoint pen | Laszlo And Georg Biro |
| Blood Banking | Charles Drew |
| Current Electricity | Volta |
| Cell | Robert Hooke |
| Circulation Of Blood | William Harvey |
| Cement | Joseph Aspdin |
| Computer | Charles Babbage |
| Cyclotron | Ernest Lawrence |
| Cell Theory | Scheilden And Schwann |
| Cholera Bacillus | Robert Koch |
| Chromosome | Waldeyer |
| Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney |
| Cellular Phone | Dr. Martin Cooper |
| Calculating Machine | Blaise Pascal |
| DDT | Paul Muller |
| Dynamite | Alfred Noble |
| Electricity | Thomas Edison |
| Electro Magnetic Engine | James Maxwell |
| Earth As A Huge Magnet | William Gilbert |
| E.M Induction | Faraday |
| Energy Quanta | Max Planck |
| Earth‘s Radius | Eratosthenes |
| Earth Revolves Round The Sun | Copernicus |
| Electromagnetic theory | James Clerk Maxwell |
| Electron | J.J Thomson |
| First Person To Orbit Earth | Yuri Gagarin |
| First Clone Of A Sheep | Ian Wilmit |
| Father Of Botany | Theophrastus |
| Father Of Zoology | Aristotle |
| Father Of Taxonomy | Carolus Linnaeus |
| Father Of Genetics | Gregor Mendel |
| First Person To Televise Pictures Of Moving Objects | John Logie Baird |
| Genetic Laws of Heredity | Mendel |
| Gramophone | Thomas Edison |
| Gravitation | Newton |
| Gun Powder | Roger Bacon |
| Green Land | Robert Peary |
| Helical Structure Of Protein | Linus Pauling |
| Helicopter | Igor Sikorsky |
| Household Vacuum Cleaner | Herbert Cecil Booth |
| Integrated Circuit | Robert Noyce |
| Insulin | Dr. F.G Banting |
| Internal Combustion Engine | Nikolas August Otto |
| Jet Engine | Frank Whittle |
| Jupiter | Galileo |
| Laser | Theodore Maiman |
| Law Of Attraction And Repulsion Between Electric Charges | Coulomb |
| Logarithm Table | John Napier |
| Lightening Conductor | Benjamin Franklin |
| Laser | Dr. C. Gilbert |
| Microorganisms | Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek |
| Mass/Energy Conversion Equation | Einstein |
| Magnet | Dr. Gilbert |
| Malaria Parasite | Ronald Ross |
| Mercury Thermometer | Fahrenheit |
| Noble Gases | Cavendish |
| Nucleus | Robert Brown |
| North America | Christopher Columbus |
| Neutron | James Chadwick |
| Nylon | Wallace. H Carothers |
| Oxygen | Joseph Priestley |
| Polio Vaccine | Jonas Salk |
| Periodic Table | Mendeleev |
| Penicillin | Alexander Fleming |
| Radio | Marconi |
| Radioactivity | Becquerel |
| Radium | Madam Marie Curie |
| Rabies Vaccination | Louis Pasteur |
| Structure Of DNA | Watson & Crick |
| Simple Microscope | Hans Janssen and Zacharias Janssen |
| Sulphuric, Nitric and Hydrochloric Acid | Jabir Bin Hayan |
| Semiconductor | Bardeen and Brattain |
| Streptomycin | S.A.Waksman |
| Safety Match | John Walker |
| Synthesis Of Gene In Laboratory | Hargobind Khorana |
| Steam Railway Locomotive | Richard Trevithick |
| Solar System | Copernicus |
| Telephone | Graham Bell |
| Television | John Baird |
| Transistor | William Bradford Shockley |
| Typewriter | Sholes |
| Theory Of Relativity And Photoelectric Effect | Einstein |
| Tuberculosis | Robert Koch |
| Uranus | Herschel |
| Uncertainty Principle | Heisenberg |
| Ultra Violet Rays | Johann Wilhelm Ritter |
| Vaccination Against Small Pox | Edward Jenner |
| Vitamin. C Therapy | Linus Pauling |
| Vitamins | Funk |
| Velocity Of Light | Roomer |
| Wireless Telegraphy | Signor Marconi |
| Water | Henry Cavendish |
| Windscreen Wipers | Marry Anderson |
| X-rays | Roentgen |
| Zero | Al Khwarizmi |
Units – Everyday Science
| Force | Newton/ Dyne |
| Temperature | Kelvin/ Celsius/ Degree |
| Current | Ampere |
| Heat | Joule/ Calorie/ BTU |
| Pressure | Pascal/Torr |
| Radioactivity | Becquerel/Curie/Rutherford |
| Atomic energy | Rydberg/Joule |
| Voltage | Volt |
| Electric Potential Difference | Volt |
| Electric Charge | Coulomb |
| Power | Watt |
| Resistance | Ohm |
| Conductivity | Mho |
| Energy | Joule/ Erg |
| Distance Between Stars And Planets | Light Year |
| Wavelength | Angstrom |
| Volume | Acre-Foot/Litre |
| Frequency | Hertz |
| Rate of flow of water | Cusec |
| Length | Meter/Fermi/Parsec |
| Optical Power Of A Lens or A Curved Mirror | Dioptre |
| Plane Angle | Radian |
| Luminous Intensity | Candela |
| Amount of Substance | Mole |
| Rate Of Decay Of Radioactive Material | Rutherford |
| Sedimentation Rate | SVEDBERG Unit |
| Induction | Henry |
| Magnetic flux | Maxwell/ Weber |
| Magnetic Flux Density/Magnetic Inductivity | Telsa/Gauss |
| Electric Conductance | Siemens |
| Angle | Degree |
| Solid Angle | Steradian |
| Torque | Foot-Pound |
| Mechanical work/Energy | Erg |
| Magneto Motive Force | Gilbert |
Abbreviations – Everyday Science
| ABM | Anti-Ballistic Missile |
| AC | Alternating Current/Air Conditioning |
| AEC | Atomic Energy Commission |
| ALT | Altitude |
| AM | Ante Maridiem (Before Noon/Midday) |
| AMP | Ampere |
| APTEC | All Pakistan Technology Engineers Council |
| ATM | Automated Teller Machine (Banking) |
| AW | Atomic Weight/ Asia Watch |
| ADH | Anti-diuretic Hormone |
| AWACS | Airborne Warning and Control System |
| AMU | Atomic Mass Unit |
| AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| ATP | Adenosine Tri Phosphate |
| BTU | British thermal Unit |
| BASIC | Beginner‘s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BDS | Bachelor Of Dental Surgery/ Bomb Disposal Squad |
| BP | Blood Pressure/ Boiling Point/ Blue Print |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
| BCG | Bacillus Calmette Guerin |
| BOT | Build, Operate and Transfer/Botulinum Toxin |
| C/A | Current Account |
| CFC | Chloro Fluoro Carbon |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CRO | Cathode Ray Oscilloscope |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CNS | Central Nervous System |
| CCTV | Closed-Circuit Television |
| CAA | Civil Aviation Authority |
| CABB | Centre Of Agricultural Biochemistry And Biotechnology |
| CAD | ComputerAided Design |
| Cal | Calorie |
| CD | Compact Disc/ Civil Defence/ Community Development |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| CECP | Cotton Export Corporation Of Pakistan |
| CHASNUPP | Chashma Nuclear Power Plant |
| CMCC | China Mobile Communications Corporation |
| COM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| COMSAT | Communications Satellite Corporation |
| COMSTECH | Council Of Scientific And Technology Cooperation Of Islamic Conference |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation |
| CTBT | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
| CT-Scan | Computerised Axial Tomography Scanning |
| CNG | Compressed Natural Gas |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| DBS | Data Base Server/ Direct Broadcast Satellite |
| DVD | Dynamic Versatile Disc |
| EMF | Electro Motive force |
| ETT | Educational Telecommunications and Technology/ European Transaction on Telecommunication |
| ECAT | Engineering Colleges Admission Test |
| EDB | Engineering Development Board |
| EEG | Electroencephalogram |
| ENERCON | Energy Conservation Centre |
| EPA | Energy Protection Agency |
| EPD | Energy Protection Department |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESRO | European Space Research Organisation |
| ECG | Electro Cardio Gram |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FCPS | Fellow Of The Royal College Of Physicians And Surgeons |
| FM | Frequency Modulation |
| FMCT | Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty |
| FRCS | Fellow Of The Royal College Of Surgeons |
| GeV | Giga Electro Volt |
| GUT | Grand Unified Theory |
| GHz | Gigahertz |
| GB | Gigabyte |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| HIV | Human Immune Deficiency Virus |
| HTML | Hypertext Mark-Up Language |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| HST | High Speed Technology/ High Speed Train (in UK)/Hubble Space Telescope |
| HDL | Hardware Description Language |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency (UN) |
| IBM | International Business Machine |
| IC | Integrated Circuit/ Intelligence Corps |
| ICBM | Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| INSTRAW | International Research And Training Institute For The Advancement Of Women |
| INTELSAC | International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium |
| INTELSAT | International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation |
| IRBM | Intermediate Range ballistic Missile |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITB | Information Technology Board |
| JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| KANUPP | Karachi Nuclear Power Plant |
| KAPCO | Kot Adu Power Company |
| kHz | Kilohertz |
| KV | Kilo Volt |
| kW | Kilowatt |
| KWh | Kilo Watt Hour |
| LPG | Liquefied Petroleum Gas |
| LASER | Light Amplification by Stimulated emission of Radiation |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LDL | Low Density Lipoprotein |
| LED | Light emitting Diode |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LONAR | Long Range Navigation |
| MAF | Million Acre Feet |
| MCV | Mean Corpuscular Volume |
| MASER | Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| MeV | Mega Electron Volt/ Million Electron Volt/ Multi-experiment Viewer |
| MCAT | Medical Colleges Admission Test |
| MDS | Master In Dental Surgery |
| MNP | Mobile Number Probability |
| MRBM | Medium Range Ballistic Missile |
| MRCP | Member Of Royal College Of Physicians |
| MRCS | Member Of Royal College Of Surgeons |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| MS | Medical Superintendent |
| MSN | Microsoft Network |
| MW | Megawatt |
| NADRA | National Database And Registration Authority |
| NEPRA | National Electric Power Regulatory Authority |
| NM | Nautical Mile |
| NMD | National Missile Defence |
| NPT | Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty |
| NRA | Nuclear Regulatory Authority |
| NWD | Nation Wide Dialling |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol/ Normal Temperature and Pressure |
| NPN | Negative Positive Negative |
| OGRA | Oil And Gas Regulatory Authority |
| OGDC | Oil And Gas Development Corporation |
| PVC | Poly vinyl Chloride |
| PTFE | Poly Tetra Fluoro Ethylene |
| pm | Post Meridian |
| PEMRA | Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority |
| PTA | Pakistan Telecommunication Authority |
| PNP | Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase |
| RBC | Red Blood Cells/Corpuscles |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RQ | Respiratory Quotient |
| RADAR | Radio Detection And Ranging |
| SONAR | Sound Navigation And Ranging |
| SARS | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| STP | Standard Temperature And Pressure/Shielded Twisted Pair/Sodium Tripolyphosphate/Spanning Tree Protocol |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| SLV | Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SNGPL | Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited |
| SONAR | Sound Navigation And Ranging |
| SSGPL | Sui Southern Gas Pipeline Limited |
| STD | Subscriber‘s Trunk Dialling |
| STM | Subscriber Identification |
| SUPARCO | Space And Upper Atmosphere Research Committee (Pakistan) |
| TNT | Tri Nitro Toluen |
| TB | Tubercle Bacillus/ Tuberculosis |
| UHF | Ultra High Frequency |
| UNAEC | United Nations Atomic Energy Commission |
| UNESCO | United Nations Education, Scientific And Cultural Organisation |
| VCD | Video Compact Disc |
| VHF | Very High Frequency |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| WAPDA | Water And Power Development Authority |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| WMD | Weapons Of Mass Destruction |
| WWF | World Wildlife Fund |
| ZPG | Zero Population Growth |