Magnetism
The planet with the strongest magnetic field.
What is Jupiter?
The metal that is the best conductor under normal conditions.
What is Silver
1921: For his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
Who was Albert Einstein?
What is it called when two waves of the same frequency cancel each other out?
Destructive Interference
Who is Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar?
These are able to create the strongest magnetic fields in existence.
What are neutron stars/magnetars?
This element in its diatomic form boils at about 77K.
What is nitrogen.
1933 For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory (2 quantum theorists)
Who were Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac.
Sound is made of types of waves, including mechanical, longitudinal and pressure waves. The height of these waves is called what?
Amplitude
This daughter of a Nobel Prize-winning couple won her own in 1935, with her husband, for the discovery of artificial radiation
Who is Irène Joliot-Curie?
He first discovered that an electric current could produce a magnetic field.
Who is Hand Christian Oersted?
This elements nucleus is called an alpha particle when stripped of electrons.
What is helium.
1918: In recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta
Who is Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Sound travels in waves of pressure made up of compressions and this, which is the opposite of compression (Hint: not decompression!)
Rarefaction
This Hispanic American won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his creation of hydrogen bubble chambers for determining resonant states of particles
Who is Luis Alvarez?
The type of magnetism that all matter has.
Diamagnetism.
This type of non classical fluid has zero viscosity.
What is a super fluid.
1922: For his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them
Who is Niels Henrik David Bohr?
Music is made using a combination of sound frequencies and the absence of sound in pattern-like structures and sequences, which together is called what?
Rhythm
Physicist Edward Bouchet was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in the US from this university
What is Yale?
The strength of the Earth's magnetic field in Gauss.
What is about 0.25-0.65 Gauss (answers within this range are correct)?
This element has the heaviest nucleus of any stable naturally occurring element.
What is Plutonium.
1929: For his discovery of the wave nature of electrons
Who is Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie?
What do you call the difference between 2 frequencies when one is twice the other?
An octave
This "First Lady of Physics" was depicted on a 2021 USA stamp for her work on parity violations
Who is Chien-Shiung Wu?