This type of light is used to examine thick walls for structural flaws.
What is a gamma ray?
100
The motion observed whenever a force acts to return an object to its equilibrium position according to Hooke’s Law.
What is simple harmonic motion?
100
This force is negligible in an elastic collision.
What is friction?
100
This physicist and mathematician published a series of three books commonly known as "The Principia" in 1687, introducing the world to fundamental laws of motion and gravity that are still accepted today.
Who is Isaac Newton?
100
This exerts a force that causes a compass needle to spin.
What is a B-field?
200
Radar uses them to detect the range, speed, and other characteristics of remote objects.
What are microwaves?
200
The equation that applies to all Hookean elastic bodies, most notably springs.
What is F=-kx?
200
This force is always perpendicular to a surface.
What is normal force?
200
This man timed the oscillations of a chandelier with his pulse, accidentally discovering fundamentals of simple harmonic motion.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
200
A pulsation in loudness heard when 2 sound waves of similar frequency are played simultaneously.
What is a beat?
300
This type of light is used in night vision equipment.
What is infrared light?
300
The point where the maximum acceleration of a spring in simple harmonic motion occurs.
What is the amplitude?
300
This answer will be in the form of a video like they have on jeopardy sometimes so this is just blank i guess.
What is gravity?
300
This man discovered a law of induction stating that any change in the magnetic flux through a loop or coil of wire will set up an EMF across the coil, inducing current to flow.
Who is Michael Faraday?
300
A horizontal scaffold; a sound heard when an object passes supersonic speeds.
What is a boom?
400
This type of light can break apart chemical bonds, for example, important bonds in the DNA of skin cells.
What is ultraviolet light?
400
The effect of air resistance on the frequency of the simple harmonic motion of a spring.
What is "no effect whatsoever"?
400
This force is necessary for the operation of a metal detector.
What is magnetic force?
400
Johannes Kepler used this man's data to discover the three laws of planetary motion
Who is Tycho Brahe?
400
In order to polarize light, you can pass it through this type of crystal.
What is birefringent?
500
Located between microwaves and infrared waves on the EM spectrum, these waves can be used in security screening by traveling through fabrics and plastics to uncover concealed weapons.
What are terahertz waves (submillimeter waves)?
500
The equation for the instantaneous velocity of an object in simple harmonic motion.
What is the square root of (k/m)(A^2 - x^2)?
500
This force combats inertia by pulling an object in a circular motion.
What is centripetal force?
500
This Dutch physicist, who made significant contributions to the field of wave optics, also invented the pendulum clock and the marine chronometer.
Who is Christiaan Huygens?
500
This object has the ability to convert chemical energy to electrical energy.