Classical Mechanics
Italian thinker who used a telescope to challenge the heavens and ended up under house arrest for seeing too clearly.
Who is Galileo?
Two main types of electric current one flows steadily in a single direction, the other keeps changing. Together they name a famous Australian band.
What are alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC)?
Animal often mentioned in a thought experiment meant to highlight the wave function collapse.
What is cat?
Physical quantity whose formula is written on Boltzmann's tombstone
What is entropy?
Quantity that is conversed when no external forces act.
What is momentum?
Despite little formal education, this scientist showed that changing magnetic fields can produce electric currents.
Who is Faraday?
This phenomena, explained by Einstein, showed that light must come in packets.
What is the photoelectric effect?
Scientist who introduced the concept of ensembles to describe systems in equilibrium, and the probability distribution named after him gives the likelihood of a system being in a state with a given energy at temperature T.
Who is Gibbs?
Spinning device that insists on minding its own axis.
What is a gyroscope?
Method used in electrostatics to calculate the electric field of a charge in the vicinity of a conducting surface.
What is the method of images?
This class of particles which includes electrons, quarks, and neutrinos
What are fermions?
Type of phenomenon characterized by a non-analytic change in a system’s thermodynamic quantities, such as free energy
What is a phase transition?
Doesn’t tell things what to do, but minimizes its integral anyway.
What is a Lagrangian?
Mathematical operation which tells you how two observables change with respect to each other.
What is Poisson bracket?
Vectorial quantity that represents the power flow of an electromagnetic field.
What is Poynting vector?