Motion and Space
What invisible force keeps us on the ground and planets in orbit?
Gravity
What flows through a wire to light up a bulb?
Electric current
What do you call an angle that is exactly 90 degrees?
Right angle
What is the fastest moving thing in the universe?
Light
What number system is used by computers and only uses 0s and 1s?
Binary
What is the physics word for speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction?
Acceleration
What famous rule connects voltage, current, and resistance?
Ohm's Law
What do you call a math quantity that has both a size and a direction?
A vector
What is the absolute coldest possible temperature called?
Absolute Zero
In programming, what type of statement makes a decision based on "true" or "false"?
An If statement / Conditional
If you multiply an object's mass by its velocity, what do you get? (Hint: p = mv)
Momentum
If you put two 10-ohm resistors in parallel, what is the total resistance?
5 ohms
If two vectors are at a perfect 90-degree angle, what does their dot product equal?
Zero
What physics term measures the amount of chaos or disorder in a system?
Entropy
In a standard C++ for loop, how many control steps are inside the parentheses?
Three
What kind of crash bounces perfectly without losing any kinetic energy?
Elastic collision
What hand trick helps you find the magnetic direction around a wire?
The Right-Hand Rule
What calculus rule do you use to find the derivative of two things multiplied together?
The Product Rule
What physics rule calculates exactly how much a beam of light bends when it travels from air into glass or water?
Snell's Law
In electronics, what technique pulses a digital signal on and off rapidly to fake an analog voltage, often used to control motors or fade LEDs? (Hint: PWM)
Pulse Width Modulation
What are the balancing points in space where a satellite can just "park" between two planets?
Lagrange points
What happens in a circuit when the inductor and capacitor perfectly cancel each other out?
Resonance
What 3D vector operation tells you how much a field is spinning or swirling?
Curl
In the famous double-slit experiment, what makes the bright bands of light appear?
Constructive interference
In digital logic, what famous rule states that the opposite of "A AND B" is exactly the same as "NOT A OR NOT B"?
De Morgan's Laws