Know your Nobel
Received the Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect.
Albert Einstein
Physics professor from 1926-1944. Later became college president.
Peyton Nalle Rhodes
Equal to the time derivative of momentum.
Force
The SI unit of mass.
kilogram
Unseen matter that represents most of the mass of the universe.
Dark matter
First recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Credited with the discovery of X-rays.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
The number of steps from the ground floor of Rhodes Tower to the 6th floor +/-5.
75
The Greek symbol mu is frequently used for his quantity.
Coefficient of friction
The SI unit of momentum.
Hoffmeister, but kg m/s is acceptable.
When a quantum particle enters a classically forbidden region.
Tunneling
Only person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry.
Marie Curie
Physics department chair from 1956-1992.
Jack Taylor
A liquid or a gas.
Fluid
MeV/c2 is the unit for this physical quantity.
Mass
Spaghettification.
The stretching of matter caused by black hole tidal forces.
Last name of this father and son team who shared the Nobel Prize in 1915 for x-ray crystallography.
Bragg
Number of consecutive years our SPS chapter has been named an outstanding chapter +/-5.
25
Uses the phenomenon of total internal reflection to transmit information optically.
Fiber optic
Units of G, the universal gravitational constant.
N m2/kg2
A term for the relativistic slowing of time.
Time dilation.
The only person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
John Bardeen.
The machine shop is named in honor of this long-time machinist for the department.
Glen Davis
Two processes involved in the generation of nuclear energy.
Fission and fusion
A calorie is a unit for this physical quantity.
Energy
The Gnab Gib.
The Big Bang in reverse.