Mechanical Systems
In physics, this measures an object's resistance to motion. In chemistry, it measures the amount of matter in a substance.
What is mass?
This universal constant is about 299,792 km s-1 in a vacuum.
What is the speed of light?
In fluid dynamics, this mechanical force opposes an aircraft's motion through the air, acting parallel to the oncoming relative flow.
What is drag?
This TV drug kingpin borrowed the surname of the physicist behind the Uncertainty Principle.
Who is Heisenberg?
This scientist become the youngest person to win a Nobel prize at age 36 and is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
Who is Marie Curie?
This scientist formulated the law stating that all objects attract each other based on their masses and distance apart.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This type of wave is created by small vibrations in an object, and transmits at different speeds through different mediums.
What are sound waves?
Located near Geneva, this massive particle physics laboratory is home to the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
What is CERN?
This scientist invented calculus to help explain orbital motion and celestial mechanics and didn't tell anyone for 20 years.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This type of energy is highest when a mass spring system is at maximum displacement.
What is elastic potential energy?
As a star moves away from Earth, the light we observe shifts red. This phenomenon allows astronomers to measure the star's speed relative to us.
What is the Doppler effect?
Einstein predicted this effect, where time passes slower for an observer moving near speed of light relative to one at rest.
What is time dilation?
This theoretical shortcut through spacetime, often featured in sci-fi, creates a bridge connecting two vastly distant points in the universe.
What is a wormhole?
He developed the laws of planetary motion based purely on observational data, without telescopes for his calculations.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
Tightrope walkers carry long poles to increase this quantity, which makes it easier to balance by lowering their angular acceleration.
What is the moment of inertia?
In a medium where wave speed depends on frequency, two waves of slightly different frequencies can produce a repeating pattern of loud and soft sounds. This effect is known as this.
What are beats?
This invisible, mysterious substance doesn't interact with light but makes up about 85% of the universes total mass.
What is dark matter?
This man invented the first practical incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Engineers designing tall buildings must account for this oscillatory phenomenon where wind or earthquakes can amplify vibrations disastrously.
What is resonance?
Noise-cancelling in headphones, pretty colors on soap bubbles, and the "dead spots" in a concert hall all come from the same wave phenomenon.
What is superposition (constructive & destructive interference)?
This thermodynamic baseline - equal to -273.15° C - serves as the literal starting point for the Kelvin temperature scale.
What is absolute zero?
This nickname was given to the simultaneous release of the films Barbie and Oppenheimer in 2023.
What is Barbenheimer?
He is known for his work on evolution by natural selection after a famous voyage to the Galapagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?