Stars and the Universe
This is the name of the nuclear process occurring in the core of our star.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
This is the process of converting data from one form to another, such as when a person writes a sentence or records a song.
What is Encoding?
This variable represents the number of Protons and Neutrons in an isotope.
What is A?
This measurement of a wave occurs at the maximums or minimums of a wave.
What is amplitude?
The electric field lines originate from this point.
The measure of a particles Kinetic Energy
What is Temperature?
This is the name of the element most abundant in our star.
What is Hydrogen
The purpose of this process is to digitally encode an analog sample at discrete points in time.
What is sampling?
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma are all examples of this.
What is Nuclear Decay?
This is measurement is made form crest to crest, trough to trough, or every second crossing of the rest position
What is wavelength
This is the unit of measure fore resistance, current, voltage, and charge
What are the ohm [Omega], Amp [c/s], volt [v], and coulomb [c] ?
The Equation which approximates ideal gasses
What is PV=nRT ?
What is Red?
This type of imaging shows ligaments and soft tissues.
What is MRI?
This is the name of the process which emits a Helium nucleus.
What is Alpha decay?
This variable has units of
[(waves)/(sec)]
What is frequency?
Gravitation and this other force share a very similar equation.
What is the electric force F_e ?
These are
W, Q, DeltaU_I
What are Change in Internal Energy ( DeltaU_I ), Heat (Q), and work (W), used in the equation
W+Q = DeltaU_I
This is the name of the fusion chain process occurring within our star.
What is the proton-proton chain?
The value 53 is encoded as 110101 in this number system.
What is Binary?
This decay results in no change to A but a change in Z by 1.
What is Beta decay
The value of the speed of all electromagnetic waves in a vacuum.
What is 3.0*10^8 m/s ?
Resistors put into this configuration result in an increase in current flow.
What is parallel?
The methods of energy transfer.
What are: Conduction, Radiation, Convection?
Red shift, Cosmic Microwave Background, Consistent element distribution in objects are all evidence of this.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
This type of digital protection prevents others from reading the data but is still susceptible to theft.
What is encryption?
In the equation P_r = P_o * 1/2^n the exponent "n" represents this.
What is the number of half lives?
The phenomenon that occurs when two waves meet and combine to form a new wave.
What is Interference?
vecF=m*veca
is universal to computing forces, in the electric force equation this quantity is equivalent to "a" in the above.
What is E?
These are the names of the 4 different thermodynamic processes.
What are Isochoric (Isovolumetric), Adiabatic, Isothermal, Isobaric?