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Pieter van Musschenbroek, a Common card
Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Pieter van Musschenbroek quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pieter van Musschenbroek card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
An early example of a problem in dynamic plasticity his ______ in the 1739 paper.
Answer
described. An early example of a problem in dynamic plasticity his described in the 1739 paper. From the Pieter van Musschenbroek article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in ____.
Answer
1740s. Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746. From the Pieter van Musschenbroek article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kim Jin-kyu. Kim Jin-kyu 77 · Charles Coulson 64 · Pieter van Musschenbroek 60 · Transferrin receptor 1 53 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, specializing in physics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy.
- His pioneering work on the buckling of compressed struts made him one of the first scientists to provide detailed descriptions of testing machines for tension, compression, and flexure testing in 1729.
- An early example of a problem in dynamic plasticity his described in the 1739 paper.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pieter van Musschenbroek article was read about 6,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Pieter van Musschenbroek
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pieter van Musschenbroek (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hieronymus van der Mij, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
