Astro
this type of telescope uses mirrors to gather lights
A Reflecting Telescope
What did JILA originally stand for?
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
What is the approximate diameter of a typical atomic nucleus?
(Answers are in 10^-x m)
15 (+- 1)
This animal is a popular symbol for SPS
Spherical Cow
(kg*m)/(s2)
Newton
This space center in Houston is named after which president?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Name a space mission that LASP has participated in.
(Think of multiple answers as teams cannot repeat answers)
Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Cassini, New Horizons, MAVEN, Mariner 5, Mariner 6, Mariner 7, Mariner 9, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Dynamics Observatory, AIM, MMS, Van Allen Probes, and many others.
This decay Process emits a helium-4 nucleus
Alpha Decay
What SPS stands for
Society of Physics Students
(Kg*m2)/(s2)
Joule
The number of times can light travel around the earth in 1 second
7
What element was used to create that first Bose-Einstein condensate?
B. Rubidium
The MUSE project looking at (umbrella)
Proton radius puzzle
The year SPS was formed
1968
(Kg*m2)/(s3*A2)
Ohm
A 1990 photo of Earth taken by this space probe prompted Earth to be called a “pale blue dot”
Voyager 1
How many undergraduate students did CU Boulder have in Fall 2023?
30,707
Where Nuclear Fusion occurs naturally here
Cores of stars
SPS honor society name
Sigma Pi Sigma
(Kg*m2)/(s2*A2)
Henry
Scientists imaged a black hole for the first time in 2019. This black hole is located in the galaxy
M87
Compared with an identical clock at sea level, approximately how much faster (in nanoseconds) does a clock at CU Boulder run each day because of gravitational time dilation?
16 ns per day (+- 5)
This is the most common decay mode of a π0
Two photons(γγ)
Magazine published by SPS honor society twice a year
Radiations Magazine
(Kg)/(m*s2)
Pascal