The theory that the laws of mechanics are the same in steadily moving reference frames as they are in resting reference frames.
What is Galilean Relativity?
100
The theory that there is no preferred reference frame, and therefore, no ether.
What is special relativity?
100
This theory states that acceleration and gravity are indistinguishable.
What is the General Theory of Relativity?
100
The city in which Albert Einstein was born and raised.
What is Munich, Germany.
100
The study of objects in one reference frame as seen from another reference frame that is moving with respect to the first.
What is relativity?
200
This mode of transportation was used to prove Galileo's theory of relativity.
What is a ship?
200
The author of the special theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
A strong gravitational field that can prevent light from escaping.
What is a black hole?
200
Einstein's job when he published his theory of relativity.
What is a clerk at a patent office?
200
This equation shows the relationship between light's energy and its frequency.
What is E=hf
300
He came up with a heliocentric model of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
300
The length of an object as measured by an observer moving with the object.
What is proper length?
300
The phenomenon by which massive distant galaxies contain enough matter to deflect the light of even more distant objects that would not be visible from earth otherwise.
What is Gravitational Lensing?
300
The university at which Einstein received his doctorate.
What is the University of Zurich?
300
These particles, somewhat smaller than protons, are created in laboratories.
What are muons?
400
A reference frame that has constant mathematical form while not accelerating.
What is inertial reference frame?
400
The mass of an object as measured by one who is at rest with respect to the object.
What is rest mass?
400
This occurs when light's wavelengths are stretched by gravity.
What is a gravitational red shift?
400
This value is written as C in Einstein's famous theory of relativity E=MC^2.
What is the speed of light?
400
The phenomenon by which a moving clock runs slower.
What is the clock paradox?
500
This was theorized to be a colorless, odorless, weightless substance that fills space around transparent objects. (disproved)
What is luminiferous ether?
500
E(sub O)=M(sub O)C^2 is used to find the energy of a mass at rest.
What is the equation for Rest Mass Energy
500
This star was used in 1920 to first observe gravitational blue shift.
What is Sirius?
500
For his explanation of this, Einstein received his Nobel Prize for Physics.
What is the photoelectric effect?
500
This Dutch physicist won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1902 and created the accepted alternative to Galilean Transformation.