ALL ABOUT ATOMS
The electrical charge on a proton
What is positive?
Astrophysicist debate how far the universe is doing this; it’s somewhere around 60 kilometres per second per parsec
What is expanding?
Energy is the ability to do this
What is work?
Pounds per square inch is one common way of expressing this
What is air pressure?
The technology of a galaxy far, far away is the subject of Patrick Johnson’s “The Physics of” of this film series
What is Star Wars?
The elements in the Periodic Table are arranged in order of increasing atomic
What is number?
The universe could end with the Big Crunch, meaning it collapses into one of these
What is a black hole?
A child sitting at the top of a slide has
What is potential energy?
This quantum of light is the particle that carries the electromagnetic energy
What is a photon?
Pablo Picasso said that “the genius of” this man led to Hiroshima
Who is Albert Einstein?
This regal sounding group of gases do are very hard to react with
What are noble gases?
Doing experiments deep in the Earth protects the results from being contaminated by these rays, from the Greek for “universe”
What is cosmic?
When you kick a soccer ball it displays this type of energy
What is kinetic?
It’s any object that, after being given an initial velocity, is allowed to fall under the effects of gravity alone
What is a projectile?
Ten to the power of 3 is this “K”
What is kilogram?
Sheldon Glashow gave this adorable name, C-quark for short, to a particle discovered in 1974
What is charm?
These were recently discovered after two black holes collided with each other one billion light-years away
What are gravitational waves?
This law states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
One constant in the uncertain world of quantum mechanics is the constant named for this physicist
Who is Planck?
Wilhelm Roentgen won the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of these rays
What are X-rays?
Melvin Schwartz shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with this 8-letter chargeless subatomic particle
What is a neutrino?
Some versions of this six-letter theory said that space-time had exactly 10 dimensions
What is string?
The formula for gravitational potential energy is mass times gravity times
What is height?
In 1880 it was found that if you compress a crystal-like quartz, you can produce this effect
What is piezoelectric?
In his memoir “Endurance,” NASA astronaut Scott Kelly recounts his one year here
What is the International Space Station?