Optics
Type of image formed by a plane mirror
What is a virtual image?
For a given object on a given surface, the greater coefficient of friction (out of static or kinetic)
What is static?
This person's cat was trapped in a box with a radioactive particle
Who is Schrödinger?
The powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
Mrs. McHenney’s first name
What is Jennifer?
Type of lenses that (nearsighted) glasses are
What is a concave lens?
In a binary star system, the key point about which both stars center their orbital motion
What is the center of mass?
Law stating that the force required to stretch a spring scales increases linearly with the distance that it is stretched
What is Hooke’s Law?
Albert Einstein’s eye color
What is brown?
A song that resulted in a popular meme involving 2 consecutive one digit numbers
What is Skrilla - Doot Doot (6 7)?
Type of visible light with the shortest wavelength
What is violet?
In a system consisting of a star with a satellite with a speed greater than its escape velocity, the type of conic section defining the path taken by the satellite
What is a hyperbola?
Scientist who unified theories of electricity and magnetism with his 4 equations (full name, including middle)
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
Fruit sharing ~60% of its DNA with humans
What is a banana?
Number of students in Stevenson's inaugural class (+- 20)
What is 467?
First discoverer of Snell's Law
Who is Ibn Sahl?
The name given to forces where the work done by the force is independent of the path taken by the object, and to which a potential energy can be assigned
What is a conservative force?
The experiment that determined the constancy of the speed of light
What is the Michelson-Morley Experiment?
Room that hosts Biology Olympiad meetings at Stevenson
Where is room 1804?
Bill Nye’s full legal name
What is William Sanford Nye?
Physical phenomenon by which bubbles appear rainbow-colored
What is thin film interference?
Planet B has 2x the density of Planet A but also has ½ the radius of planet A, if T is the time a ball would take to fall on planet A, what is the time it would take to fall on planet b if dropped from the same height on both planets? Assume the height is << than the radius of these planets.
What is T?
Person whose work on the galaxy rotation problem produced the first widely accepted evidence for the existence of dark matter
Who is Vera Rubin? P.S. a new observatory named after her was unveiled this summer! Search it up
2 main signal transduction pathways that GPCRs are involved in
What are cAMP and phosphatidylinositol?
Thing that monsters in Monster’s Inc. generate when they make children scream
What is electricity?