Physics History
This person invented the first 3 laws in classical mechanics.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This person discovered magnetic induction in an experiment with a closed ring of soft iron.
Who is Michael Faraday?
In classical mechanics a spring and weight is an example of this.
What is a Harmonic Oscillator?
Fill in the blank: Beetlejuice is a ________ star.
What is red giant?
In DC Comics, this person is an alien that conquers worlds, and is generally known as the main villian for the New Gods. He is also known as the Thanos equivilent for DC.
Who is Darkseid?
This person was the head of the Theoretical Division on the Manhattan Project.
Who is Hans Bethe?
The famous Stern-Gerlach experiment measures this quantity of silver atoms.
What is spin?
This electrical component can amplify/dampen electrical potential between two alternating-current circuits using induction.
What is a Transformer?
This device is used for neutrino detection.
What is a photomultiplier tube?
This person acts as Richard Feynman in the hit film "Oppenheimer"
Who is Jack Quaid?
This famous thought experiment was first proposed in 1871 by James Maxwell Clark, which included a hypothetical intelligent being that could violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
What is Maxwell's Demon?
This experiment measured the universal gravitational constant in 1798.
What is the Cavendish experiment?
This is the equation of resistance (Not R = V/I).
What is R = σL/A?
This constellation is represented by a hunter from Greek mythology. This hunter was supernaturally gifted, and the son of Poseidon.
Who/What is Orion?
This was the nickname given to the 4 papers that Einstein published in 1905.
What is Annus mirabilis papers?
This person won the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron, the first particle accelerator to achieve high energy?
Who is Ernest Orlando Lawrence?
This constant was measured during the Milikan Oil Drop Experiment.
What is the charge of the Electron?
This is the effect of splitting a spectral line into several components using a static magnetic field in quantum mechanics.
What is Zeeman Splitting?
This is created when the light from a galaxy or star passes by a massive object en route to the Earth due to gravitational lensing.
What is an Einstein Ring? (Also known as Einstein–Chwolson ring or Chwolson ring)
This famous kids character is on the pizza slice shaped magnet on the mini fridge in the club room.
Who is Elmo?
This German-born American theoretical physicist proposed the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus and in 1963 became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.
Who is Maria Goeppert-Mayer?
This famous experiment was the first built critical nuclear reactor.
What is Chicago Pile-1?
This laser system is used to trap cold neutral atoms in an array.
What is an optical tweezer array?
This is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. These were also recently used to help find low-frequency gravitational waves on the NANOGrav project.
What are Pulsars?
This state contains 6 of the top 7 largest national parks in the United States.
What is Alaska?