The New Leaving Cert Quiz

The Walsho

Time for another one of these perhaps?

I'll start with an easy one. Maths : Give the formula for solving a quadratic equation.

fivetwenty

Well . . . Depends what you're looking for, no?

f(x)=0? b(squared)-4ac? Or is it the double brackets with factoring underneath the original Eq?



Ok, Physics - What's the device that converts AC to DC Voltage?

The Walsho

Sorry my question was unclear, I meant the b(squared)-4ac one.

Your question - A diode?

If so : History - Give two reasons for the Rise Of Fascism in Italy.

boobookitty

• Mussolini was backed by wealthy industrialists and landowners (b/c of their fear of socialist reforms)
• March on Rome?

ENGLISH:

Fill in the blanks!

"O, the more angel she, / And you the __________(Emilia to Othello 5.2.131)

"The Moor is of a ____________ / That __________ seem to be so." (Iago to Roderigo 1.3.393-4)
an old black __ / Is tupping your white ___" (1.1.89-90)

eoins2345

History 4 strengths and 4 weaknesses of Charles Stewart Parnell as leader of the Home Rule Party?

Chemistry Define
1)Rate of Reaction
2)Hess`s law
3)The Law Of Conservation

Business
Define market research
Give to advantages of market research
4 external and internal sources of ideas for a business

English
An sample intro to the question ..."Why does the poetry of Derek Mahon appeal to you?"

fivetwenty

eoins2345 wrote: »

Business
Define market research
Give to advantages of market research
4 external and internal sources of ideas for a business

English
An sample intro to the question ..."Why does the poetry of Derek Mahon appeal to you?"

A business / enterpriser takes the initiative to find out more about the market in order to gain a better understanding of rival strategies consumer needs and how to satisfy them, by using Internal and External sources.

Adv: Satisfy Customer needs
Increases chance of profits
Saves money off a potentially unsuccessful product

EXT: Trade Fairs, Trade Magazines, Staff Trips, Internet, Marketing Advisors.

INT: Brainstorming, Salesforce suggestions, Employee Suggestions, Consumer Feedback.


English:

Derek Mahon is a c*nt, but we love him anyway.






Ah no, something like he once described himself as "a strange child with a taste for verse" and a "European poet from Belfast" - I find these self analogies very interesting yada yada yada (even though I really don't)

1huge1

Answering business question (don't do chemisty and don't study mahon)

1: market research is the going out and obtaining the research yourself as opposed to desk research which is were you research info already gotten (bit of waffle in there but i know it)
2: find out what YOU want
1st hand info (how many points you want)
3 external= trade fairs, competition, magazaines etc
internal= sales records, brainstorming...

Not greatly answered but im knackered

Ok a geography question:
give me the basic points of physical side of the paris basin

business question:
EU decision making process

fivetwenty

Still have to do Geog - but Physical aspects, I seem to remember it covers 21km(squared) or something, Flat, low-lying fertile land suitable for farming, consists of the river Rheine & Rhone or something? Cool Temperate Maritime climate?

As for Business, The Parliament makes a suggestion / puts forward an amendment.
The XXX reviews it and sends it back to the parliament.
Parliament make adjustments and send in their final conditions.
Council Of Ministers review it, get a second opinion from XXX, allows XXX to review it if needed, and they jointly pass the law.
'
Can't remember for the life of me who XXX is - Maybe they're the Parliament? I know the groups in total are The Ministers, Court Of Justice, Parliament.

Anyway, make that my question

fivetwenty

Ok - The Commission take the Parliaments place, the Parliament = XXX.

daggy

How about ...

The Ampere Definition (physics)? *ack*
An advantage/disadvantage of an RCD over a MCB ?

and

Using first p's of differentiation ,find y= CosX

Diarmsquid

daggy wrote: »

How about ...

The Ampere Definition (physics)? *ack*

The ampere is a current which, if running through two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed 1 metre apart in a vacuum, would produce a force on the conductors of 2×10–7 newton per metre.

That's a bitch of a definition.

daggy wrote: »

An advantage/disadvantage of an RCD over a MCB ?

I don't think I do this subject, or I hope I don't. Either way, I dunno what RCD or MCB is...

daggy wrote: »

and

Using first p's of differentiation ,find y= CosX

f(x) = cosx, let h = a small change in x
f(x+h) = cos(x+h)

dy/dx = lim(h -> 0) ( f(x + h) - f(x) ) / h

f(x+h) - f(x) = cos(x + h) - cos(x)

cosA - cosB = -2sin((A + / 2).sin((A - / 2)

f(x+h) - f(x) = -2sin(( x + h + x ) / 2).sin(( x + h - x ) / 2)

f(x+h) - f(x) = -2sin(( 2x + h ) / 2).sin( h / 2)

f(x+h) - f(x) / h = -2sin(( 2x + h) / 2).sin( h / 2) / h

(multiply above an below by 1/2)

f(x+h) - f(x) / h = -2sin(( 2x + h) / 2).( sin( h / 2) / (h/2) ). (1/2)

lim (h -> 0)f(x+h) - f(x) / h = -2sin(( 2x + h) / 2).( sin( h / 2) / (h/2) ). (1/2)

(sinx/x = 1)

=-2sin(2x/2).1.(1/2)

= -sinx

:cool:


Accounting:

What are the limitations of marginal costing?

nerd3000

Sorry don't do Accounting

Business: Ingredients for Global Success..Surprised if anyone knows that..(25 marks) (5 points x 5 marks)

Nato!

nerd3000 wrote: »

Sorry don't do Accounting

Business: Ingredients for Global Success..Surprised if anyone knows that..(25 marks) (5 points x 5 marks)

Probably wrong but heres my effort

1. Single global market.
Treat the world as one single market by creating global brands to meet the demands of a global consumer
2. Standardised products.
Produce identical products in all plants with some slight modifications for some countries e.g. right hand drive in ireland/ left hand drive in france

thats all i have

Papercut

Biology:

Name the 4 bases of DNA and Distinguish the Purines and Pyrimidines

Riotguy

^ Purine: Adenine and Guanine...Pyrimidine: Cytosine and Thymine.

History: List three weaknesses and three strengths of Isaac Butt as leader of the Home Rule Movement.

PeteZahut

for the bases q just learn this......The attorney general is pure....a and g are purine bases;););)...hope dat helps

Parsley

daggy wrote: »

An advantage/disadvantage of an RCD over a MCB ?

RCDs are way more sensitive than MCBs.

pocket aces

Chemistry: define first ionisation energy

Physics: what is newton's 2nd law?

salman85

pocket aces wrote: »

Chemistry: define first ionisation energy

Physics: what is newton's 2nd law?

ammount of energy required to remove the most loosely bound electron from 1 mole of neutral gaseous atoms in their ground state

gosh i hate that newton guy i think its to do with momentum before bieng equal to momentum after, so here it goes

when a force acts on a body the momentum before collision is equal to the momentum after collision and acts in the direction of the force


EDIT: my question
physics option 1
name the fundamental forces experienced by hadrons

give the quark composition for a pion

chemistry

define the second ionization energy

Peleus

salman85 wrote: »

EDIT: my question

physics option 1
name the fundamental forces experienced by hadrons

give the quark composition for a pion

chemistry

define the second ionization energy

Hadrons feel all four fundamental forces. Ie, Gravitational Force, Electromagnetic Force, Strong Nucleur Force and Weak Nuclear force.

A pion is up-antidown i think... Its a Meson though.

My questions:

French: Give and example of a demonstrative pronoun (in french)

Maths: Give the formula for the Tan of the angle between two lines

Physics: Explain Einstein's Photoelectric Law. What is the Work function?

Applied Maths: State the two laws governing collisions of two bodies?

Economics: How do banks create credit?

Cokehead Mother

French: Give and example of a demonstrative pronoun (in french)

Cette?

Maths: Give the formula for the Tan of the angle between two lines

(m1 + m2)/(1 - m1m2)

Physics: Explain Einstein's Photoelectric Law. What is the Work function?

so hf = work function + kinetic energy

So hf is like the the energy provided

and then the work function is the minimum energy required to release the energy ( h x threshold freq)

and then the kinetic energy is the energy the electrons have while moving or something

Applied Maths: State the two laws governing collisions of two bodies?

law of conservation of momentum and newton's experimental law of restitution

Question

Irish: Five adjectives (in Irish) to decribe the whore in An Triail.

Peleus

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

Cette?

Celui

thank god i dropped to pass, no more leanring off things on An Triail. I'd say bocht? Ag iompar clainne? can't remember:cool:

blue-army

Geography : Paris Basin

1huge1

blue-army wrote: »

Geography : Paris Basin

Bit more specific maybe?

Ok ill take tertiary

Id talk about the tourism and go on about all the historic places in the city and eurodisney and they likes
Id talk about the transport sector, all about the metro, their motorways, give figures here and there. etc
then id talk about some emplyment areas in services.

Ok ill ask a geography question aswel.

Tell me about the mezzogiorno's primary sector.

Parsley

1huge1 wrote: »

Tell me about the mezzogiorno's primary sector.

Waffle on about red soils and growing hard wheat used to make pasta and pizza dough... that's all i got :pac:

Oooh and the mozarella cheese made from the ox milk or somethin... And olives n' stuff.

blue-army

1huge1 wrote: »

Tell me about the mezzogiorno's primary sector.

The region has a high %age of illliteracy (30%) and unemployment.
Even though it holds 40% of Italys population, it only produces 25% of its income per capital..
Theft, organised crime common...
Fishing popular near the coast, but ports not up to EU standards.
Forestry was once popular but overgrazing led to barren land.
Trees cut down and not replanted...
Region relies on farming, yet it's underdeveloped and old-fashioned methods...no crop rotation etc...
Soil poor and infertile....Mountainous Relief!
Land Reforms created 120,000 new jobs for people in the region....Even though these plots of land were small they gave people a chance to make a living.
EU Objective 1 region....living standards poor compared with rest of europe..

Hows that? Would that be enough for an A 1huge1? you seem to be good at geog!

OK...continuing on the geography theme - Plate tectonics - discuss

1huge1

Ya geography would be one of my strong topics alright, well you have a fair amount of points there and if you develop them well you'd get max srp's. just one thing though how would you relate theft and organised crime to primary activities?

as for plate tectonics

Id talk about the structure of the earth (might as well stick it in somewhere)
then go on about alfred wegener and and his proofs
then hess and ewings proofs
then talk about all the types of plate boundries giving examples (e.g divergent mid atlantic ridge)
and with convergent id talk about oceon-oceon, oceon-land with the oceon being heavier and subducting below etc
might seem short but I could get a lot out of all that
id finish the question off talking about earthquakes and volcanoes giving examples e.g kobe japan 1995 €20billion...
1994 san andreas fault

ok maybe move away from the geography for a while

business:

role of a HRM

Failure

• Manpower Planning
• Performance Appraisal
• Staffing
• Training
• Industrial Relations?

Benefits of being a PLC?!?

Riotguy

^

- Potential for raising of huge sums of capital, through public share issues.

- Unlimited Liability, no shareholder is personally liable for debts incurred by the business itself.

- Listing of the PLCs name on the Stock Exchange is beneficial for promotion of good image.

- Financial institutions are more prepared to lend to major organisations such as PLCs, and PLCs attract high-quality staff with range of expertise.

Bulls**t Bulls**t Bulls**t!

Biology: Define an abiotic factor, and list three which you investigated during the course of your ecosystem study.

1huge1

^

Non living factors

light
temp
air
water

waffle on about those

hmm

Ok english

general outline on a question on Donne OR Larkin

Peleus

1huge1 wrote: »

Ok english

general outline on a question on Donne OR Larkin

I Don't do them so i'll give you Mahon:

Poet of Place and Objects:
-->titles contain placenames (Co. Wexfork, Portrush...)
-->Description of place is v good ( Chinese Rest, As it should be, Disused shed in Co. Wexford... "deep in the ground of a burnt out hotel")
-->Only objects in most of his poems (Rathlin, Disused Shed)

Stands up for underdogs in History
-->After the Titanic (Bruce Ismay > "Include me in your lamentations")
-->Disused Shed ("Lost people of Treblenka and Pompeii, "save us, save us," they seem to say")
-->Antarctica ("I'm just going outside and may be sometime, at the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime")
-->Rathlin (?)

Physics: Give two properties of the Weak Nuclear Force
French: Est ce qu'il vous est arrivé d'avoir peur? Décrivez vos sentiments. Write out a plan to this
English: "Rich can be described as both a personal and political poet" Do you agree with this statement? (Plan)

blue-army

OK....emm Philip Larkin.

England'd finest pre-war poet.
Born Covertry 1922...Led a 'coloured childhood'.
Only child + constant tentions between his parents.
Led to him becoming shy & self conscious...stammer etc...
Described his parents saying "they weren't very good at being happy" and summed up his childhood as being "a forgotten boredom."
Stopped writing 10yrs before he died claiming he'd lost his inspiration....

Church Going
Thought Provolking...religious poem by an athiest etc
Trying to find out churchs' meaning..
Atmospheric poem...onomatopaeia, imagery etc...

An Arundel Tomb..
about aging statue of Lord Arundel and his wife....Theme = passage of time/ changes.....People only see the statue as a symbol of love...whereas If times hadn't changed so much (and people could read the latin on the statue) they would know of his many victories etc...

The Whitsun Weddings...
Happy poem...describing his train journey from hull 2 london....describe things he can see from carriage window etc... imagery
characters you can realte to when he arrives at the wedding...

MCMXIV
about the "long uneven lines" of men queuing up to enlist in the army...resembles lines to get into a sporting event at "The Oval or Villa Park" on an "August Bank Holiday lark"
Sympathy towards these brave men....

Conclusion...enjoyed his poetry..highly recommend his work blah blah blah...



any good?

hippety-pippety

Peleus wrote: »

Physics: Give two properties of the Weak Nuclear Force
French: Est ce qu'il vous est arrivé d'avoir peur? Décrivez vos sentiments. Write out a plan to this
English: "Rich can be described as both a personal and political poet" Do you agree with this statement? (Plan)

Physics: 2 properties of the weak nuclear:

responsible for beta-decay (pls say i'm right!)
short range
felt by all particles (thats 3 i know bt just to b sure)

French: don't understand the q..does it mean "have you ever been afraid?"
i think i answered a q about being afraid in the mock. i told a realy sh1t story about when i ws young & got lost, using very bad french. got a b though

English: i hate rich! but yeah, she is political, um, because she was an activist or something, she's a feminist, politics is part of her being or consciousness or something and she's also personal because she writes from her own experiences a lot, etc.

physics: what are x-rays?
what is the cockcroft-walton experiment famous for? (3 points)

biology: give a brief description of how protein synthesis occurs in the cell
give an example of symbiotic bacteria in the alimentary canal

Riotguy

Protein Synthesis

1. Initiation: Enzymes cause DNA to unwind, at the site where synthesis is to take place.

2. Transcription: Complementary RNA bases move into the nucleus from the cytoplasm and bond with one exposed strand of DNA. RNA polymerase joins the RNA bases to form mRNA.

3. Translation: mRNA moves from the nucleus to the small sub-unit of a ribosome. tRNA moves to the large sub-unit. tRNA anticodons join with complementary mRNA codons and appropriate amino acids are detached. Ribosome constructs proteins from the amino acids.

- Bacteria in the colon of the large intestine produce Vitamins B and K in return for food and shelter.

Business: Functions of the Director of Consumer Affairs? 4x5 marks.

Parsley

hippety-pippety wrote: »

physics: what are x-rays?
what is the cockcroft-walton experiment famous for? (3 points)

X-Rays are electromagnetic waves with high frequency and short wavelength.
Cockroft-Walton Experiment split the atom.


Physics Q: In the F against A experiment, using the trolley and the weights over the pulley, why must you put the weights onto to the trolley when they are removed from the end of the string?

Chemistry Q: In the bleach titration, why can't you use "thick" type bleach? And why must the bleach be diluted?

Peleus

Parsley wrote: »

X-Rays are electromagnetic waves with high frequency and short wavelength.
Cockroft-Walton Experiment split the atom.


Physics Q: In the F against A experiment, using the trolley and the weights over the pulley, why must you put the weights onto to the trolley when they are removed from the end of the string?

I didn't know you had to do that but...

F=ma
so since you are measuring acceleration at differnent forces the mass of the system must be kept constant. taking the weights off without putting them on the trolley would be taking mass from the system, thereby creating an error in you results.

Physics:
In the experiment to measure equilibrium for coplanar forces, why must the spring balances be kept at right angles to the meter stick?

hippety-pippety wrote: »

physics:
what is the cockcroft-walton experiment famous for? (3 points)

It was the first transmutation of a nucleus by artificially accelerated particles. By firing protons at the nucleas of a Lithium atom two alha particles were produced. give eqt...

Cokehead Mother

Peleus wrote: »

Physics:
In the experiment to measure equilibrium for coplanar forces, why must the spring balances be kept at right angles to the meter stick?

So that the forces are perpendicular to the distance. In the formula M = Fd, d refers to the perpendicular distance.

Peleus wrote: »

It was the first transmutation of a nucleus by artificially accelerated particles. By firing protons at the nucleas of a Lithium atom two alha particles were produced. give eqt...

7_3 Li + 1_1 p -> 4_2 He + 4_2He + E

And the E turned to be equal to mc^2 which proved Einstein's equation.

There's a load of unanswered questions on this page so I'll refrain from asking one.

Parsley

Peleus wrote: »

I didn't know you had to do that but...

F=ma
so since you are measuring acceleration at differnent forces the mass of the system must be kept constant. taking the weights off without putting them on the trolley would be taking mass from the system, thereby creating an error in you results.

Correctamundo!

kaki

Chemistry:

1) You shouldn't use thick bleach, as it can't be diluted to a homogenous solution, because of it's tendency to sink to the bottom.

2) You must dilute the bleach, because household brands are too strong, and undiluted bleach would require massive amounts of potassium iodide and H2SO4


Okay, my question(Chemistry agan): why is the disodium salt of EDTA used in the water hardness exp., as opposed to regular EDTA?

Parsley

kaki wrote: »

Chemistry:

1) You shouldn't use thick bleach, as it can't be diluted to a homogenous solution, because of it's tendency to sink to the bottom.

2) You must dilute the bleach, because household brands are too strong, and undiluted bleach would require massive amounts of potassium iodide and H2SO4


Okay, my question(Chemistry agan): why is the disodium salt of EDTA used in the water hardness exp., as opposed to regular EDTA?

Re your first answer, we were told it was cos the thickening agents interfere with the reaction and result in an innaccurate endpoint.

Ummm, shot in the dark here, but is it cos it's a primary standard?

kaki

Oh, okay, thanks!

And the disodium salt is used because EDTA itself is really unsoluble.

Parsley

kaki wrote: »

Oh, okay, thanks!

And the disodium salt is used because EDTA itself is really unsoluble.

Ah, I'll remember that one now!

More chemistry, as it's the easiest to quiz on- Explain Pauli's exclusion principle, the Aufbau principle and Hund's Rule of maximum multiplicity.

salman85

Parsley wrote: »

Ah, I'll remember that one now!

More chemistry, as it's the easiest to quiz on- Explain Pauli's exclusion principle, the Aufbau principle and Hund's Rule of maximum multiplicity.

no idea becuase its unlikely to come up

maximum multiplicity i think is to with electrons being as far as possible from each other in pairs

but dont care either way

chemistry :: in the clove oil exp why are whole cloves used instead of ground (RSP 2002) 12 marks (2 reasons atleast i think)

physics :: how to demonstrate lenz's law.

give the formula for neuclear disintigration

kaki

Pauli's: No more than 2 electrons can occupy an orbital, and they must have opposite spin.

Aufbau: When building up the electronic configuration of an atom, electrons occupy the lowest available energy level

Hund's: If two or more orbitals of equal energy are available, electrons occupy them singly before filling them in pairs

Questions: Chemistry: To which region of the spectrum do the following series refer?

1) Paschen

2) Ballmer

3) Lyman

salman85

kaki wrote: »

Pauli's: No more than 2 electrons can occupy an orbital, and they must have opposite spin.

Aufbau: When building up the electronic configuration of an atom, electrons occupy the lowest available energy level

Hund's: If two or more orbitals of equal energy are available, electrons occupy them singly before filling them in pairs

Questions: Chemistry: To which region of the spectrum do the following series refer?

1) Paschen

2) Ballmer

3) Lyman

1st 2nd and 3rd energy levels?

unlikely to come up as well.

kaki

Dude, those are exactly the type of things that come up in Q4

Paschen= Infra red
Ballmer=Visible
Lyman=UV

Parsley

salman85 wrote: »

chemistry :: in the clove oil exp why are whole cloves used instead of ground (RSP 2002) 12 marks (2 reasons atleast i think)

physics :: how to demonstrate lenz's law.

give the formula for neuclear disintigration

Whole cloves because ground cloves have lost most of their oil.

I know Lenz's law but not sure about demonstration...

Nuclear disintigration? Beta and alpha radiation decay?

Alpha - a/b X -> a-4/b-2 Y Beta - a/b X -> a/b+1 Y

salman85

Parsley wrote: »

Whole cloves because ground cloves have lost most of their oil.

I know Lenz's law but not sure about demonstration...

Nuclear disintigration? Beta and alpha radiation decay?

Alpha - a/b X -> a-4/b-2 Y Beta - a/b X -> a/b+1 Y

DN/DT

lenz's law = magnet and a non magnet inside a tube, magnet falls slower, non magnet falls fast
waffle about induced EMF

and

i have done nearly all question 4s, never came across these, or i skiped em by choice

uncertenty principle comes up
rutherford comes up
bohr comes up
we didnt even learn that crap in class,
if your going for A1s then yeah its probably worth knowing them, but if you are going for A1, its unlikely you will do question 4 unless you know the whole course inside out.

kaki

Lenz' Law demo: Take a piece of hollow copper tubing, with a small metal cylinder, and a small cylindrical magnet. Drop the metal through first, note time taken. Now drop the magnet. It will take far longer to travel through due to the change in flux linking the copper pipe caused by the magnet, which induces an emf that opposes the movement of the magnet.

What about some Irish prose? List the filming techniques used in Clare sa Speir?

kaki

if your going for A1s then yeah its probably worth knowing them, but if you are going for A1, its unlikely you will do question 4 unless you know the whole course inside out.

Well, I think that, generally, a person that deserves an A1 ought know the whole course inside out. For any subject. But this is off topic...

Parsley

I know that copper tube yoke, just forgot that it was lenz's law being demonstrated.

Didn't do clare sa speir, ah well!