Taught in class
What is the main purpose of a capacitor?
To store electrical energy
What is the principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or transferred?
Conservation of Energy
The scientist who proposed the laws of motion (both first and last name)
Isaac Newton
Who is the first Chinese Nobel Prize winner?
Zhenning Yang, for discovering parity violation
Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment dealing with which type of mechanics?
Quantum Mechanics
Which force is the weakest of the four fundamental forces of nature?
Gravitational force
What is the set of fundamental equations that describe the behavior of electric and magnetic fields, encompassing the laws of electromagnetism.
Maxwell's equations
The scientist who laid out the theory for elliptical motion of planets. (both first and last name)
Johannes Kepler
How many Nobel prize categories are there
Six. literature, physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, and economic sciences
Quantum is a Latin word that means what in English.
How much
What angle at which a launched projectile will travel the farthest?
45 degree
Which law describes the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in a circuit?
Ohm’s Law
Who founded that lights are electromagnetic waves?
James Clark Maxwell
What did Einstein discover to win the Nobel prize in physics?
The photoelectric effect
Which Einstein theory established that nothing can travel faster than light?
Special relativity
what is the energy that is stored in an object due to its position or shape?
Potential energy
What is the measure of an object’s resistance to a change in its state of motion?
Inertia
Which British physicist discovered the existence of electrons?
J. J. Thomson
This Nobel prize is awarded not in Sweden but Norway
Nobel peace prize
Quantum numbers are used to describe the state of an electron in an atom. How many quantum numbers are there?
Four. the principal quantum number (n), the azimuthal quantum number (l), the magnetic quantum number (m), and the spin quantum number (s)
What is the force that holds the nucleus of an atom together called?
Strong nuclear force
Gravity is not a force but rather a result of the curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy. What physics law is this called?
General Theory of Relativity
Which New Zealand-born physicist is often known as the 'Father of Nuclear Physics?
Ernest Rutherford
This person is the only one who have won Nobel prize in both physics and chemistry
Who are the two physicists who fathered Quantum physics?
Niels Bohr and Max Planck