Momentum
Energy
Motion/Force
Popular Culture
Physics Misc.
100
If the velocity of an object is scaled by a factor of 2, the momentum changes by this amount.
What is a factor of two?
100
This law states that energy can not be created or destroyed.
What is conservation of energy?
100
The standard unit of force is named after this English fellow.
Who is Isaac Newton?
100
The plot of this movie follows the extraction of DNA from prehistoric mosquitos.
What is Jurassic Park?
100
The study of sound is this branch of physics.
What is acoustics?
200
Classically, an object with momentum must have these two quantities.
What is mass and velocity?
p = m∙v
200
Gravitational potential energy contains these three quantities.
What is mass, acceleration, and height?
200
These two nuclear forces are considered to be fundamental.
What are the strong and weak forces?
200
In The Martian, a stranded scientist utilizes what field of study to survive?
What is botany?
200
The first woman awarded a Nobel Prize for physics also received the award in this related field of study.
What is chemistry?
300
To find the impulse of a collision, take the product of these two quantities.
What is force and time? (What is mass and velocity?)
Δp = F∙Δt = m∙Δv
300
A volleyball, a bowling ball, and a ping pong ball roll down a uniform slope. The ball with the greatest kinetic energy is this one.
What is the bowling ball?
300
Coulomb's law involves this intrinsic property of matter.
What is electric charge?
300
Rick Sanchez invented this device to travel across the multiverse.
What is a portal gun?
300
The conventional direction of electric current flows in this direction.
What is positive to negative?
400
In the context of energy, momentum is to mass as angular momentum is to this quantity.
What is the moment of inertia?
K = KT+Kθ = m∙v2/2 + I∙ω2/2
400
This universal constant is used to relate mass and energy.
What is the speed of light?
400
This influence is commonly ignored in trajectory calculations.
What is air resistance? (What is drag?)
400
This two-word advertising slogan refers to a white, colloidal mixture.
What is "Got Milk?"?
400
This historical physicist became more famous for his cat than for his equation.
Who is Erwin Schrodinger?
500
The impulse of a 5 newton force applied for 2 minutes results in this change of momentum.
What is 600 newton-seconds?
500
This transfer of energy arises from a change in volume.
What is work?
500
This law relates the force of a spring to the distance it is compressed.
What is Hooke's law?
F = -kx
500
Hidden Figures is a movie about African American female mathematicians who worked at this organization.
What is NASA?
500
This early process produced an imbalance of matter and antimatter in the universe.
What is baryogenesis?