Nerdy Facts
Newton published the foundations of physics and calculus in the Principia Mathematica in this year.
What is 1687?
What is acceleration?
What is a Newton?
This citrus fruit did not originally come in the size and color we know it to be today.
What is an orange?
To engineers these mean the same thing: e= pi
What is 3?
This theory about the universe was first published in 1905 by Albert Enstein.
What is Special Relativity?
Mass times velocity
What is momentum?
Capacitors are measured in this unit.
What is a Farad?
This vegetable was cross bred into existence for human consumption. It is not natural.
What is broccoli?
Used when distances and angles between them are extremely small.
What is the small angle approximation?
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"
What is PV=nRT?
Given in the SI units: m/s^3
Hint: This goes beyond acceleration
What is Jerk?
All U.S. States and emancipated territories are spelled without this letter.
What is Q?
It is said this makes up about 5% of the entire universe.
What is baryonic matter?
(visible matter/ atoms).
This astronomer mostly made eccentric theories, but some were actually true such as light bending around massive objects (relativity) and dark matter.
Who is Fritz Zwicky?
Magnetic Field of a solenoid is given by this equation.
What is mu_0*n*I?
Measures the expansion of the universe in units of:
km/s/Mpc
What is the Hubble Constant?
The inventor of this mustachioed snack is buried in a tube of his own creation.
Who is the inventor of Pringles?
(Fredrick J. Baur)
Used to relate randomness in simulations and is home ot many retired athletes (as well as some very rich people).
What is Monte Carlo?
There is a standing award of 1 million dollars if you can answer any set of these problems.
What is the Millennium Problems?
A flow through either a gaussian surface or cross-section describes this.
What is flux?
This is given as units of [ (kg * m^2)/s^2 ] /s
What is Watts?
This company stores every product they ever made into a vault that is accessible to a handful of people.
What is Lego?
(Lego Company/Lego store).
Called his "biggest mistake", but more than 50 years later would serve to correct observational errors in equations determining the universe.
What is the cosmological constant?