Classical Mechanics
This quantity is the product of mass and velocity.
What is momentum?
The unit of electric current.
What is an ampere?
He proposed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
He formulated the three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
In the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, this physicist is Sheldon Cooper’s idol.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Newton’s First Law is also known as this principle.
What is inertia?
This law relates the magnetic field around a current-carrying wire.
What is Ampère's Law?
This is the smallest quantum of electromagnetic radiation.
What is a photon?
This physicist developed the laws of electromagnetic induction.
Who is Michael Faraday?
Schrödinger put this animal in a thought experiment.
What is a cat?
The acceleration of an object in free fall near Earth's surface (in m/s²).
What is 9.8 m/s²?
The opposition to current in a circuit is called this.
What is resistance?
This famous equation relates energy and mass.
What is E = mc²?
She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
A “quantum leap” isn’t big, it’s actually this.
What is a very small change in energy level?
The type of energy stored in a stretched spring.
What is elastic potential energy?
The direction of induced current is given by this law.
What is Lenz’s Law?
This principle states that certain pairs of variables cannot be simultaneously known with precision.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein? (for the photoelectric effect)
This invisible “force” gives mass to particles, discovered at CERN.
What is the Higgs boson?
This is the path followed by a projectile under the influence of gravity.
What is a parabola?
This equation relates electric flux and enclosed charge.
What is Gauss’s Law?
This model describes the fundamental particles and forces (except gravity).
What is the Standard Model?
This Danish physicist introduced the planetary model of the atom.
Who is Niels Bohr?
The famous “Feynman Lectures” were by this brilliant American physicist known for bongo drums and QED.
Who is Richard Feynman?