Scientists
Experiments
Theories / Concepts
Mathematics
Miscellaneous
100
This scientist established most of the founding theories for classical physics and believed light was a particle.
Who is Isaac Newton?
100
This was a thought experiment involving an animal.
What is Schrödinger's Cat?
100
This is the unit for frequency.
What is Hertz? (per second)
100
h-bar is a quantity defined by plank's constant divided by this value.
What is 2*pi?
100
This instructor is most qualified to be teaching this course.
Who is Will Montgomery, Master of Engineering in Applied & Engineering Physics?
200
This man believed light is a wave.
Who is Huygen?
200
This experiment was used to demonstrate that electrons behave as both a wave and a particle.
What is the double slit experiment?
200
The bending of waves around an obstacle or slit.
What is diffraction?
200
The distance between a peak and trough of a wave.
What is twice the amplitude?
300
This man formulated the wave equations, but is most famous for his thought experiment.
Who is Schrödinger?
300
This device from the Phantastic Photon lab was used to look at the spreading of light from LEDs.
What are diffraction gratings?
300
This concept established by a French physicist shows that all moving particles have waves, which explains the wave behavior of electrons.
What is the Debroglie wavelength?
300
A photon with an energy of 15.4 eV strikes a hydrogen atom that has an electric potential of -13.6 eV. The kinetic energy of the escaped electron would be this.
What is 1.8 eV?
300
The number of completed cycles per second.
What is frequency?
400
This physicist is best known for his model of the atom.
Who is Niels Bohr?
400
Adding this to a double slit experiment, makes electrons behave as a particle.
What is an observer?
400
The superposing of two waves to form a resultant wave.
What is wave interference?
400
If I throw a party once a month for a year, how many times do I throw a party in Hz (per second)?
What is 3.82 x 10^(-7) Hz?
400
The transition of an electron from a high energy level to a lower energy level.
What is photon emission?
500
This Greek philosopher devised the first model of an atom.
Who is Democritus?
500
This experiment can be used to calculate planck's constant, h.
What is the photoelectric effect?
500
This concept discusses that we cannot exactly pinpoint a moving particle.
What is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
500
This operator represented by an upside down triangle squared, is what makes the Schroedinger Equation so notoriously difficult to solve.
What is a Laplacian?
500
This interpretation of quantum physics, named after the city where Niels Bohr was born, says to view the electron as a wave function with no definitive position until it is observed.
What is the Copenhagen Interpretation?
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