TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
PROBLEM: This results from phonon interactions in simple metals. Joule heating is caused by this, while Wheatstone bridges are used to find unknown values for this quantity. The thermal form of this quantity is equal to the length of the material over the conductivity times the cross-sectional area. "Drug" this occurs when pathogens become able to survive exposure to certain drugs, rendering those drugs obsolete. Drag is sometimes called this of air. Name this term, the electrical type of which measures of the degree an object opposes the flow of an electrical current, measured in ohms.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: He adapted Joseph Blackburn's portrait d'apparat method for his works depicting a fat-looking woman with a blue book in Mrs. James Russell, Katherine Graves, an old elegant lady with a hint of a mustache in Mrs. Thomas Boylston, and a red-coated Samuel Adams. Influenced by John Smibert, his later historical works include The Death of the Earl of Chatham and The Death of Major Peirson. His The Boy with a Squirrel got him noticed, and he also painted a famous portrait of Paul Revere at his silver shop. FTP, name this American artist who depicted a dangerous incident occurring in Havana harbor in his Watson and the Shark.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Performing a Wick rotatition of the time coordinate reduces the Feynman kernel to a functional which is similar to this quantity. The symmetry number is an overcounting correction factor that appears along with some power of the rotation temperature in the denominator for ones representing rotational energies. Its value for a system composed of several subsystems equals the product of its values for the subsystems, which implies that the Helmholtz free energy is additive over subsystems since the Helmholtz free energy is proportional to its logarithm. This quantity can also be thought of as a normalization constant since it is simply the integral over all states of the degeneracy factor times e to the negative beta times the energy of that microstate. For 10 points, name this quantity whose "canonical" form simply equals the sum over states of Boltzmann factors, and describes the macroscopic properties of a thermodynamic system.

SOLUTION:
Science