Question: What states it is impossible to define the exact amount of energy during any definite time interval?
Answer: uncertainty principle

Question: What are simply lowest quantum mechanical energy state of photons?
Answer: Virtual photons

Question: What is responsible for electrostatic interaction between electric charges?
Answer: Virtual photons

Question: What results in Coulomb law?
Answer: electrostatic interaction between electric charges

Question: What can be considered for the special case of systems which are closed to transfers of matter?
Answer: Energy transfer

Question: The portion of energy which does not do work during the transfer is called what?
Answer: heat

Question: Give one example of how energy can be transferred between systems?
Answer: transmission of electromagnetic energy via photons

Question: What asserts that energy is always conserved and that heat flow is a form of energy transfer.
Answer: first law of thermodynamics

Question: The first law of thermodynamics asserts that what is always conserved and that heat flow is a form of energy transfer?
Answer: energy

Question: What is a commonly used corollary of the first law?
Answer: for a system subject only to pressure forces and heat transfer (e.g., a cylinder-full of gas) without chemical changes

Question: What is the principle that is vitally important to understanding the behaviour of a quantity closely related to energy?
Answer: entropy

Question: What is entropy?
Answer: measure of evenness of a distribution of energy between parts of a system

Question: What is the mathematical result when an isolated system is given more degrees of freedom?
Answer: second law of thermodynamics

Question: Who defeated the native Prussians during the 13 century?
Answer: Teutonic Knights

Question: What other groups during this period for form minorities?
Answer: Poles and Lithuanians

Question: The Balts were gradually converted into which religion?
Answer: Christianity

Question: Which ethnic group become dominant following the 13 century just a few hundred years later?
Answer: Germans

Question: Around when did the Old Prussian language become extinct?
Answer: 17th or early 18th century

Question: Why were the prince electors able to proclaim themselves King of Prussia?
Answer: Because the duchy was outside of the core Holy Roman Empire

Question: In what year were the prince electors elect them selves as King?
Answer: 1701

Question: What time period did East Prussia and West Prussia join to become Prussia?
Answer: Prussia

Question: What year did the Kingdom of Prussia become the leading state of the German Empire?
Answer: 1871

Question: What well known treaty would eventually would grant West Prussia to Poland?
Answer: Versailles

Question: What year did the Nazi's fall in World War II?
Answer: 1945

Question: How many died trying to defend the province in Kaliningrad?
Answer: 300,000

Question: Which group took possession of Prussia in the 13th century?
Answer: Teutonic Knights

Question: Which two areas were slowly Germanized during the 13th century?
Answer: Old-Prussian (north) and Polish (south) toponyms

Question: What did the knights of expansionist polices eventually lead to?
Answer: several wars

Question: What year was the Second Treaty of Thorn enacted?
Answer: 1466

Question: Who converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order?
Answer: Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Question: In what year did The Teutonic Order lose Eastern Prussia?
Answer: 1525

Question: What did Albert establish himself as?
Answer: first duke of the Duchy of Prussia

Question: In what year did Maximilian III die?
Answer: 1618

Question: What happened as a result of Maximilian's death?
Answer: Albert's line died out

Question: Who revoked the King of Poland's sovereignty over Prussia in 1660?
Answer: Frederick William

Question: Brandenburg was part of what dominating force?
Answer: Holy Roman Empire

Question: What jurisdiction was the Prussian lands under?
Answer: Teutonic Order

Question: Who elected there self as King of Prussia in 1701?
Answer: Frederick III

Question: What did the former Duchy of Prussia become known as?
Answer: Altpreußen ("Old Prussia")

Question: What wiped out one third of East Prussia's population during the early 1700's?
Answer: the plague and famine

Question: What was lost in Prussia's history during the Plague?
Answer: speakers of Old Prussian

Question: What military overran much of East Prussia?
Answer: Russian troops

Question: In what year was Royal Prussia annexed?
Answer: 1772

Question: In what year was the territory of Warmia incorporated? 
Answer: 31 January 1773

Question: What was ratified in 1773 in Prussia?
Answer: The Polish Partition Sejm

Question: What defeat led to Prussia having to swear its allegiance to Napoleon?
Answer: Battle of Jena-Auerstedt

Question: What city did King Frederick William use to flee Prussia?
Answer: Königsberg

Question: What year did Napoleon end of the War of the Fourth Coalition?
Answer: 1807

Question: Who instigated the Prussian reforms?
Answer: Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein and Karl August von Hardenberg

Question: What was included in the reform?
Answer: emancipation of the serfs and Jews

Question: In what year was East and West Prussia first united?
Answer: 1824

Question: When did East and West Prussia split again?
Answer: 1878

Question: Was the population of the Prussian province in 1900?
Answer: 1,996,626 people

Question: Which religious group made up the majority of the population in Prussia?
Answer: Protestants

Question: Due to Germanization which three groups saw a decrease in Prussia?
Answer: Masurians, Kursenieki and Prussian Lithuanians

Question: Which country invaded east Prussia in World War I?
Answer: Russian Empire

Question: Why did the Russian army face such little resistance when moving through Prussia?
Answer: German Army had been directed towards the Western Front

Question: In what year did the battle of Tannenberg take place?
Answer: 1914

Question: In what year did Germany become a republic?
Answer: 1918

Question: What was implemented that separated East Prussia from Germany?
Answer: Treaty of Versailles

Question: What was implemented to provide transport to East Prussia?
Answer: The Seedienst Ostpreußen

Question: Who was the leader of the East Prussian Nazi Party?
Answer: Erich Koch

Question: What large plans did Koch have?
Answer: mass-scale industrialization of the largely agricultural province

Question: What even occurred during the summer of 1932 in Konigsberg?
Answer: attack on the headquarters of the Social Democrats

Question: Who was killed in the attack of the Social Democrats?
Answer: Gustav Sauf

Question: How were East Prussians able to pay for land improvements and road construction?
Answer: publicly funded emergency relief programs

Question: What was the name of the initiative to help with the new projects in East Prussia?
Answer: Erich Koch Plan

Question: What did Koch report to Hitler in 1933?
Answer: that unemployment had been banished entirely

Question: In what year did the Nazi's alter around one-third of the toponyms of the area?
Answer: 1938

Question: Around how many places were renamed when the Nazis entered Prussia?
Answer: 1,500

Question: What would happen if some didn't comply with the Nazi's with their demands?
Answer: sent to concentration camps

Question: How many people lived in Easy Prussia in 1939?
Answer: 2.49 million

Question: Of the population in East Prussia, what percentage of those were German?
Answer: 85%

Question: How many East Prussian Jews were around in 1939?
Answer: 3,000

Question: What happened to those Jews who remained?
Answer: deported and killed in the Holocaust.

Question: In what year was the Regierungsbezirk Zichenau annexed?
Answer: 1939