Name that Scientist!
Formula
Definitions
What came first?
Physics in Pop Culture
100
E=MC^2
Albert Einstein
100
Newton's Second Law
Mass x Acceleration = Force
100
What is Gravity?
The force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass.
100
The discovery of gravity or the discovery of quantum?
Gravity
Discovered approximately in 1666 by Isaac Newton
100
This sitcom follows the life of Sheldon Cooper, a genius physicist and his friends
The Big Bang Theory
200
Discovered gravity in his magnum opus Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
200
Formula for Momentum
Mass (m) x Velocity (v)= momentum
200
What is Physics?
The branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. The subject matter of physics includes mechanics, heat, light and other radiation, sound, electricity, magnetism, and the structure of atoms.
200
Leonard Euler's death or Robert Hook's discovery of the cell?
Leonard Euler was born 4 years after Hook's death
200
In the hit tv-show Breaking Bad, the main character Walter White adopts an alias to cover his identity; the name of this famous scientist
Werner Heisenberg
300
Famous French philosopher and physicist who discovered a unit of pressure that starts with the letter "P"
Blaise Pascal
300
Formula for Voltage
Current (I) x Resistance (R) = Voltage
300
What is a molecule?
The smallest particle of a substance that has all of the physical and chemical properties of that substance. Molecules are made up of one or more atoms.
300
The bombing of Hiroshima or the bombing of Nagaski?
The bombing of Hiroshima
300
This 2014 movie about starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway is about finding a new planet
Interstellar
400
Considered one of the founders the quantum theory and also a German
Max Planck
400
Avogadro's Number
Kind of embarrassing we're considering this as "400"
400
What is quantum mechanics?
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.
400
The birth of Aristotle or the birth of Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea was born in (450 B.C)
400
The movie Radioactive, is about the life of this female Polish physicist who won the noble prize
Marie Curie
500
Solomon Arveladze is distantly related to this Georgian Physicist who works at Ludwig Maximilian University
Giorgi Dvali
500
SCHORDINGER EQUATION!
MWHAHAHAHA
(Hamiltonian Operator)(Wavefunction)= (Energy)(Wavefunction)
Sorry for deducting you 500 points
500
I can't believe I'm considering this even more valuable, but what is thermodynamics?
Thermodynamics is the study of the relations between heat, work, temperature, and energy.
500
The trial of Galileo Galilei or Descartes' discovery of the law of refraction
Descartes discovered the law of refraction in 1626, while Galileo's trial was in 1633
500
The American director Stanley Kubrick famously directed this movie that has a year in its title
2001: A Space Odyssey
