Fabulous Fields
This life science is a common choice for many college students on the pre-med track.
Biology
This planet has the highest mean surface temperature.
Mercury
This is the acceleration due to gravity at Earth's surface to 2 decimal places.
9.81 m/s^2
This astrophysicist who recently passed away is ineligible for a Nobel prize, as they are not given posthumously.
Stephen Hawking
In this STEM field, students will study many conceptual topics like data structures and discrete math.
Computer Science
This former planet has a moon nearly half its diameter.
Velocity is a _____, while speed is a _____.
Vector; scalar
Alfred Nobel was an inventor best known for creating this.
Dynamite
Over 40% of students that major in physics and another field have their second major in this quantitative field.
Math
This planet has the largest angular momentum about our sun.
Jupiter
A parabola
This was the first woman to have won a Nobel Prize in Physics.
Marie Curie
According to Niche, this major is the 25th most popular in the US, with over 16,000 degrees awarded in a given year.
Chemistry
Of the 8 official planets, it could almost be considered a double planet, with the largest moon relative to its size.
Earth
The acceleration of a ball at the top of its trajectory is this.
g m/s^2
Albert Einstein won his Nobel Prize not for his Theory of Relativity but for this.
The Law of the Photoelectric Effect
In 1988, the University of Wisconsin and Wayne State offered the first accredited programs in this high-paying field of applied physics.
Medical Physics
Galileo described this lowest density planet as having "ears".
The two main forms of air resistance are linear and _____.
These three physicists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Gehz