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Ow! An apple famously fell on the head of this English mathematician and physicist.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This law states that an object in motion will stay in motion until acted on by an external force.
What is Newton's First Law? or What is the Law of Inertia?
This 2014 Christopher Nolan movie tells the story of astronauts who travel through a wormhole to seek a new home for mankind.
What is Interstellar?
Tick tock! This swinging instrument involves oscillation around a central equilibrium point.
What is a pendulum?
AWiP often hosts collaborating events with this ASU physics club.
What is the Society of Physics Students (SPS)?
To highlight the absurdity of the superposition principle in quantum physics, this physicist created an experiment where his cat was both dead and alive.
Who is (Erwin) Schrödinger?
This law, used often in physics and chemistry, is represented by the formula PV = nRT.
What is the Ideal Gas Law?
"Barbenheimer" refers to the release and excitement of the Barbie movie and this movie about the 'father of the atomic bomb'.
What is Oppenheimer?
Meant to demonstrate momenta laws and inertia, this item is typically composed of 5 metal balls hanging from a bar by thin string.
What is Newton's Cradle?
Both the Department of Physics and SESE belong to this ASU College.
What is the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences?
This physicist/chemist was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the first person to win two, and the only person to win in two different fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
Kepler's first law states that all planets orbit in this shape.
What is an ellipse?
This “science guy's” educational show for children ran from 1993 to 1998, promoting science in both an entertaining and accessible way.
Who is Bill Nye?
By breaking light into its different components, this tool can be used to analyze chemical compositions of stars, for example.
What is a spectrometer?
Try not to eat more than 10 million in one sitting, because this fruit is radioactive!
What is a banana?
This astrophysicist was famously snubbed of a Nobel prize for her discovery of radio pulsars (people then called it the "No-Bell" prize).
Who is Jocelyn Bell?
This constant, represented by the letter 'c', holds a value of 300 million meters per second.
What is the speed of light?
This character is a physicist in the show, the Big Bang Theory, whose eponymous spin-off show depicts his childhood.
Who is Sheldon (Cooper)?
This electromagnetic device is a metal helix/coil, and comes up often in Physics II problems.
What is a solenoid?
The word “physics” is derived from the ancient greek word φύσις (phusis), which means this.
What is "nature"?
This German mathematician's eponymous theorem describes a fundamental relationship between symmetries and conservative forces.
Who is Emmy Noether?
This is the SI unit of electric current.
What is an Ampere?
Don’t stop him now! In addition to being the lead guitarist for this band, Brian May holds a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London.
What is Queen?
The frame, center gimbal, and rotor are all parts of this rotating instrument, demonstrating the conservation of angular momentum.
What is a gyroscope?
This ASU department officially owns the Foucault pendulum in the lobby of PSF.
What is the geology department (SESE)?