Physics we didn't learn
Like the earth, a bar magnet has to of these where the magnetic field seems the strongest
the poles
In E = mc squared, the E is energy, the m is mass, and the c is this
speed of light
In light, 2 colors are said to complimentary if, when added together, they produce this color
white
The galaxy we live in
The Milky Way
It’s impossible to create a perfect one of these, a volume of space with no matter in it
vacuum
What a physicist might call the base of a teeter-totter or see-saw
Fulcrum
This O-word refers to the movement of a pendulum
oscillation
In a perfectly inelastic collision, this is what would happen to two objects when they meet
they would stop
Astrophysicists debate how fast the universe is doing this. It's somewhere around 70km per s per megaparsec
expanding
Multiple people were awarded the Physics Nobel for working with this subatomic particle containing a negative charge
electron
Electricity that "doesn't go anywhere"
Static electricity
Unit of frequency equal to 1 cycle per second, that sounds like it could rent you a car.
Hertz
The curved path along which a planet travels under the influence of a gravitational field
orbit
The only star in the northern hemisphere that never appears to move
Polaris aka North Star
Radiation used to sterilize food, strengthen plastics, and turn Dr. Banner into the Hulk
gamma
This force, supposed to act radially outward on a body moving in a curve, is a fictitious force
centrifugal force
Fahrenheit equivalent to zero degrees Celsius
32
Named for its inventor, it's the hair-raising generator that produces millions of volts
Lunar Sea on which Apollo 11 landed
Sea of Tranquility
In 1864, James Clerk Maxwell showed light travels in these waves that combine two types of fields
electromagnetic waves
In 1935 he argued in the EPR Paper (he was the E) that Quantum Mechanics wasn't a complete theory
Einstein
Two basic types of motion are: moving along a line and this movement around an axis
rotational motion
This Italian discovered the laws of the pendulum when he observed a hanging lamp swinging back and forth (in church)
Galileo
Polish astronomer who was the first to theorize the earth isn't the center of the universe
Copernicus
In 1903, this couple and Antoine Becquerel were awarded the Physics Nobel for the discovery of "spontaneous radioactivity"