Famous Physicists
A dish of meat, vegetables, etc., cooked in an Indian-style sauce of hot-tasting spices and typically served with rice.
Marie Curie
The distance light travels in a year
Light-year
-273.15
Kelvin, Absolute zero
Break free from confinement or control
Escape
V = IR
Ohm's Law (only applies to conductors)
The exercise of lying on the ground with the elbows in line with the shoulder and the feet shoulder width apart
Max Planck
Eighth closest planet to the sun
3*108
m/s, Speed of Light, c
Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule
Encapsulate
K = 1/2mv2
Kinetic energy
A tusked Eurasian wild pig from which domestic pigs are descended
Niels Bohr
The idea that the universe began as just a single point, then expanded and stretched out
Big Bang Theory
6.67*10-11
N*m^2/kg^2, gravitational constant, G
The most prestigious Physics contest in Canada, used as the first round to select members for the international physics olympiad team
CAP
F = ma = dp/dt
Newton's Second Law
A bird of prey with broad rounded wings and a long tail, typically taking prey by surprise with a short chase
Stephen Hawking
Particles that do not absorb, reflect, or emit light, so they cannot be detected by observing electromagnetic radiation
Dark matter
6.62*10-34
Js, planck's constant, h
A device used to store electrical energy
Capacitor
E = mc2
Mass–energy equivalence
A small slender-bodied amphibian with lungs and a well-developed tail, typically spending its adult life on land and returning to water to breed
Isaac Newton
The cooled remnant of the first light that could ever travel freely throughout the Universe
Cosmic Microwave Background
9*109
m/F or Nm2/C2, Coulomb's constant, k
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
Capitalism
F = kq1q2/r2
Coulomb's Law