Physics Equations/Concepts
Women in Physics/STEM
Acronyms
Film
Brainrot
100
What's Newton's third law?
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
100
Who was the first female astronaut?
Valentina Tereshkova
100
JWST
James Webb Space Telescope
100
This movie shares part of its name with the 4th planet of our solar system, released in 2015 and featuring Matt Damon as the protagonist.
(It is also Mira's favorite movie)
The Martian
100
You go to the barber. What do you ask for?
Low taper fade
200
What's the momentum principle? (Hint: Newton's 2nd law)
F = dp/dt = ma
200
Who was the first American woman and first LGBTQ+ astronaut in space?
Sally Ride!
200
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
200
What 2014 film gained recognition from the scientific community for it's very accurate portrayal of a black hole?
Interstellar
200
What actor and professional wrestler famously said "bing chilling" (meaning ice cream in Mandarin Chinese)?
John Cena
300
A gun is fired directly into the sky. What would the velocity of the bullet be when it reaches it's maximum height?
0 m/s
300
What female Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission?
Elise "Lise" Meitner
300
Radar
Radio detection and ranging
300
Which 2016 movie displays the struggles of Kathrine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson while working at NASA during the time of the Space Race?
Hidden Figures
300
Your phone is ringing and a pig-headed gentleman appears. Who is calling?
John Pork
400
If you travel to the moon, does your weight change? If so, does it increase or decrease?
Decreases
400
Who was the second woman to win the nobel prize for her work on the theoretical development of the nuclear shell model in 1963?
Maria Goeppert Mayer
400
Laser
Light amplification by stimulated emissions of radiation
400
What popular sci-fi TV show aired an episode in 2010 that had a plotline requiring a real mathematical proof to be solved? (Hint: the proof related to permutations and body-swapping)
Bonus 200 points for naming the episode!
Futurama
(S6E10, "The Prisoner of Benda")
400
From what country does the name of the character Tung Tung Tung Sahur originate?
Indonesian! It also has roots in the Islamic faith - sahur is the pre-dawn meal eaten by Muslims before fasting each day during the month of Ramadan.
500
What is the inverse square law? Bonus 50 points for stating two circumstances to which it applies.
For some scientific laws, intensity of a physical quantity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of that physical quantity. Applies to gravity, electrostatics
500
As the first woman to win a nobel prize and the first person to win two, what two elements did Marie Curie discover to earn her second Nobel Prize in 1911?
Polonium (named after her home country) and radium!
500
CERN
Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire
(I had to copy-paste this)
500
This 1998 disaster film follows a team sent to destroy an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
Armageddon
500
Name 6 Italian brainrot characters
You disgust me