Telescopes
Famous Discoveries/ers
Mental Math
UMASS Class
Fatal Science
100
Hint: This telescope operates in the UV and optical wavebands.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
100
The scientist who was the inspiration for Yoda and also had a miracle year in 1905.
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
9+7
16
100

General physics for engineers II.

What is PHYS-152?
100
A polish scientist who won a noble prize for both physics and chemistry and died of aplastic anemia due to exposure to Ra.
Who is Madame Curie?
200
Hint: It's been delayed like 3 times. :(
What is the James Webb Telescope?
200
The recent experiment that demonstrated the existence of Einstein's 100 year old prediction.
What is the LIGO experiment?
200
14 x 8
112
200
Physics of music.
What is PHYS-115?
200
The explosive event that occurs when a massive star dies.
What is a Type II Supernova?
300
Hint: Aliens
What is SETI (the Allen Telescope Array)?
300
A 19th century scientist who contributed to the Analytical Engine (an early version of the computer).
Who is Charles Babbage or Ada Lovelace?
300

16/20 - 15/60

11/20
300
Techniques of theoretical physics.
What is PHYS-282?
300

The experimental facility which caused mass hysteria over the creation of miniature black holes that would end life as we know it.

What is the Large Hadron Collider (CERN)?

400
Hint: Mexico + UMASS = <3
What is the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT)?
400
This brass-nosing observer's data led to Kepler's laws.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
400
ln(e^5) - ln(e^-10)
15
400
Multivariate calculus.
What is MATH-233?
400

An extremely painful method of dying due to an extreme gravitational gradient.

What is spaghettification or "the noodle effect" in a black hole?

500
Hint: The telescope that imaged the Cosmic Microwave Background.
What is the Fermi Space Telescope?
500
The experiment that destroyed the Plum-Pudding model of the atom.
What is Rutherford's gold foil experiment?
500

11 × 4 - 2 + 8 × (16 ÷ 4) ÷ 2 ÷ 1/2 + 9

83
500
Electronics for scientists I.
What is PHYS-531?
500
Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassman, Lise Meitner, and Otto Frisch
Who contributed to the discovery of nuclear fission?
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