Find Your Potential
At this point on a hill a car will have the most potential energy.
"What is __________ of the hill"
What is The top of the hill?
When two charges of the same type are brought together they will do this.
"What is..."
What is repel?
This is the scientific term for all forms of light.
"What are _____________ waves"
What are electromagnetic waves
Nuclear power plants use this type of reaction to get energy out of fuel.
"What is..."
What is nuclear fission
This is the very first step in a star’s life and it is the same for all types of stars and for all solar systems.
"What is..."
What is a nebula.
When water is stored behind a dam it contains this type of potential energy.
"What is ____________ energy"
What is Gravitational potential energy.
Fe = (k ᐧ q1 ᐧ q2) / r2
"What is the equation for..."
What is the equation for coulomb’s law
These are ionizing radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum?
"What are _____, _____, and _____"
What are Ultraviolet (UV), X-ray, and Gamma
This is the proper scientific name for atoms that contain different numbers of neutrons.
"What are..."
What are isotopes
This is the current estimated age of the Universe.
"What is ________ billion years"
What is 13.77 billion years
KE = 0.5 ᐧ m ᐧ v2
"What is the equation for..."
What is the equation for Kinetic Energy
These are the names of all major subatomic particles found in the nucleus of an atom.
"What are ___ and ___"
What are protons and neutrons
This is the process by which light can cause electrons to move when interacting with some metals.
"What is the ________ effect"
What is the photoelectric effect
This is the proper name for the stable product of radioactive decay
"What are _______ isotopes."
What are daughter isotopes
The process used to identify the elements that make up distant stars.
"What is..."
What is Spectroscopy.
Eff = W / Q
"What is the equation for..."
What is the equation for the efficiency of a heat engine?
This would happen to the force between two charged objects if the distance between them was quadrupled.
"What would multiply/divide the force by _____"
What would divide the force by 16.
The type of signal that uses discrete values to encode a message.
"What is a _____ signal"
What is a digital signal
This is the equation that can be used to estimate the total energy produced by both Fission and Fusion reactions.
"What is..."
What is: E = m ᐧ c2
This is the name of the mineral which was used to date the oldest solid rock yet found on planet earth?
"What is..."
What is Zircon
When energy is lost to waste it almost always takes one of these two forms.
"What are ___ and ___"
What are heat and sound?
This is a description of the idea of electromagnetic induction.
"What is..."
What is the changing of a magnetic field causing a charge to move in a conductor?
This is the equation needed to find the frequency of a wave
"What is..."
What is: f = v / 𝝺
This is how long a sample containing 6.25% carbon-14 (parent) and 93.75% nitrogen-14 (daughter) would be considering that Carbon 14’s half life is 5,730 years.
"What is __________ years old"
What is 22,920 years old.
This is the explanation that was provided for how all distant galaxies can be moving away from us and the more distant ones can be moving away faster.
"What is..."
What is the expansion of the Universe or the big bang theory