Planetary Palooza
Famous Folks
Equations
Experiments
Physics Facts
100

The fifth planet from the sun. 

Jupiter

100

His model of the atom involved quantized energy levels. 

Niels Bohr. 

100

The value that results if you multiply mass and velocity. 

Momentum. 

100

Proposed a famous cat-based thought experiment. 

Erwin Schrodinger. 

100

Type of radioactive decay where a nucleus releases a particle with two protons and two neutrons. 

Alpha decay. 

200

Rocky objects orbiting in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Asteroids.

200

Conducted the famous double-slit experiment. 

Thomas Young. 

200

? = 1/2 mv2

Kinetic Energy

200

This particle is emitted from a cathode ray gun. 

Electron. 

200

The difference between velocity and speed. 

Direction / vector. 

300

The farthest point from the Sun in a planet's elliptical orbit.

Aphelion. 

300

Postulated that the speed of light in a vacuum is the same in all inertial frames of reference. 

Albert Einstein. 

300

? = (G m1m2)/r2

Force of universal gravitation. 

300

Attempted to detect the existence of luminiferous ether. 

Michelson-Morley experiment. 

300
Wave that results from two waves moving in opposite directions with the same amplitude and frequency. 

Standing wave. 

400

Cloud of gas and dust from which stars and planets are formed. 

Solar nebula. 

400

Proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system. 

Nicolaus Copernicus. 

400

Name this law: F = (kq1*q2)/rr

Coulomb's Law.

400

Performed the gold foil experiments to discover the nucleus. 

Rutherford (or Geiger-Marsden). 

400

This radioactive particle contains more energy per particle than any of the other types of radioactive decay. 

Gamma rays. 

500

A low-mass star eventually becomes this color dwarf. 

White. 

500

Stated that all planets orbit the sun in an elliptical orbit. 

Johannes Kepler. 

500

Name one of the four of Maxwell's equations. 

A. Gauss's Law

B. No Name Law

C. Faraday's Law

D. Ampere's Law

500
Performed the first experiment demonstrating that objects of different masses fall at the same speed. 

Galileo Galilei. 

500

Named series describing the spectral line emissions for hydrogen with visible light wavelengths. 

Balmer series. 
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