Laws
This law loosely states that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"
What is the Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This force is generated by two surfaces sliding or rolling over each other. They are in opposition to motion.
What is frictional force?
This is an estimate of how far an experimental quantity may be from its predicted or true value.
What is uncertainty?
A Danish physicist for whom an atomic model for hydrogen was named
Who is Niels Bohr?
This lab in Batavia, Illinois is where evidence for a fifth fundamental force was experimentally obtained
What is Fermilab?
A consequence of this law is that heat engines will never be able to do mechanical work with 100% of the energy they receive.
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
The tendency of a body to resist changes in its velocity
What is inertia?
"Mass in motion"
What is momentum?
This physicist is most famous for his namesake "exclusion principle."
Who is Wolfgang Pauli?
Name all seven SI units
What are second, meter, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela?
This law states that "electrostatic force is inversely proportional to the square of the separation of the charges and is proportional to the product of the two charges."
What is Coulomb's Law?
This non-contact force is generated through the interaction of oppositely charged particles.
What is the electrostatic force of attraction?
A type of energy possessed by an object due to either its motion or position
What is mechanical energy?
This physicist is the namesake of a famous probability distribution curve modeling the kinetic energy of ideal gas particles, and of a set of equations that form the basis of electromagnetism.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
This particle provides the mechanism for mass generation of quarks and leptons. Evidence for the existence of this particle was produced in 2012, ending a 40-year search.
What is the Higgs Boson?
This law states that "the direction of electric current induced in a conducting loop of wire by a magnetic field is such that the magnetic field created by this current opposes the initial change in the magnetic field that induces it."
What is Lenz's Law?
In circular motion, this fictitious force manifests itself as an outward pull away from a curved path.
What is centrifugal force?
This is the point at which both enthalpy and entropy of a thermodynamic system reach a minimum value
What is absolute zero?
kgms^-2, classical mechanics, universal gravitation
Who is Isaac Newton?
This country boasts the fifth-highest number of Nobel laureates in Physics.
What is Russia?
This law states that "the volume of a given mass of gas varies directly with the absolute temperature of the gas" assuming constant pressure.
What is Charles' Law?
This phenomenon, for whom a kind of microscope is named, explains how a continuous wave function can propagate through a potential barrier in violation of classical mechanics.
What is quantum tunneling?
This occurs when external magnetic fields are applied to ferromagnets which permanently alter the orientation of the atomic dipoles in the ferromagnet.
What is magnetic hysteresis?
This 1929 Nobel Prize-winning physicist initially studied history in university before switching to physics.
Who is Louis de Broglie?
They were the first Chinese-born physicists to win the Nobel in Physics (only one required).
Who are Yang Chen-Ning and Lee Tsung-Dao?