Modern Physics
Einstein won a Nobel Prize for explaining this phenomenon that shows light can behave like a particle.
What is the photoelectric effect?
The strongest known magnet in the universe.
What is a magnetar?
(alternatively what is a neutron star)
The distance between two successive wave crests.
What is wavelength?
This physicist formulated the laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
The best Modern Physics substitute.
Who is Connor?
This experiment demonstrated the quantization of charge using oil droplets.
What is the Millikan oil drop experiment?
The disk that encircles a black hole.
What is an accretion disk?
What is constructive interference?
When is 1895?
Radian per second is the unit of this quantity.
What is angular velocity?
This equation describes the wavelength of a particle in terms of its momentum.
What is the de Broglie wavelength?
The unit of distance that describes the distance between the Earth and the sun.
What is an astronomical unit?
This effect causes the apparent change in frequency of a wave due to motion.
What is the Doppler effect?
What is New Zealand?
These are the basic ideas/units that you should know in E&M.
What is a deathbed memory?
The ground state energy of a hydrogen atom.
What is -13.6 eV?
This constant represents the expansion rate of the universe.
What is the Hubble constant?
The phenomenon that causes light to bend when entering a medium.
What is refraction?
Hypothetical medium to explain the behavior of electromagnetic phenomena.
What is the ether?
This element has the atomic number 64.
The fundamental constant of nature that links the energy of a photon to its frequency.
What is Planck's constant?
The definition of planethood that Pluto fails to meet.
What is Pluto has not cleared its orbit?
The experiment that described the wave behavior of light.
What is Young's double slit experiment?
In the year 1820, Ampere, Biot, and Savart found that these two affect one another.
What are electric current and magnetic field?
This device has the ability to amplify and switch electronic signals which paved the way for modern electronics.
What is the transistor?