Real life examples
This happens when you rub a balloon on your hair and it sticks to the wall.
What is static electricity?
F = ma
What is Newtons Second Law
This fruit allegedly started it all?
What is an Apple?
The SI unit for force?
What is the Newton?
The principle stating you cannot simultaneously know both position and momentum precisely.
What is Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle?
This force keeps your coffee in the cup when you suddenly stop your car.
What is Inertia?
The bending of light when it passes through a lens.
What is refraction?
Sound cannot travel through this.
What is a vacuum (Or outer space)?
The unit for electrical resistance.
What is the Ohm?
This physicist’s cat is both alive and dead until observed.
What is Schroedinger?
The reason ice cubes float in your drink, even though they’re solid water.
What is density (or buoyancy)
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is conservation of energy (or the First Law of Thermodynamics)?
This astronomy is responsible for the heliocentric model of the solar system
Who is Galileo?
What is a Joule?
The smallest possible discrete amount of a physical quantit.
What is a quantum
Why you see lightning before hearing thunder, even though they happen simultaneously.
What is the difference between the speed of sound and light
The tendency of moving objects to maintain constant velocity in a straight line.
What is Newton’s First Law (or inertia)?
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for working with this element?
What is Radium?
This prefix means 10-9 units.
What is nano?
The interpretation that says particles exist in all possible states until measured.
What is Superposition
The physics principle that explains why figure skaters spin faster when they pull their arms in.
What is the conservation of angular momentum?
The phenomenon where time dilates and length contracts at high speeds.
What is special relativity?
Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel prize for this.
What is the Photoelectric effect?
Plank’s constant has this units.
What is Joule-Seconds?
This phenomenon allows particles to instantaneously affect each other regardless of distance.
What is Quantum Entanglemen?