Forces & Motion
Electricity & Magnetism
Waves & Light
Thermodynamics
People of Physics
100

This force is always perpendicular to the surface an object is on

Normal force

100

It is a device that turns chemical energy to electrical energy

Battery

100

A disturbance that transfers energy through space and matter

Wave

100

A material that prevents heat transfer

Insulator

100

This physicist developed the theory of relativity; best known for the equation E=mc2

Albert Einstein

200

Newton's ____ Law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Third

200

It is the "push" that makes charges move

Voltage

200

Light wave are what type of wave?

Transverse

200

The average kinetic energy in the particles of an object

Temperature

200

First woman to win the Nobel Prize after she discovered radioactivity

Marie Curie

300

Static, sliding, rolling, kinetic; these are all types of ____.

Friction

300

If an electrical circuit has a 5 V battery and a a 25 Ω resistor, how much current is there in the circuit?

0.2 A / 0.2 Amperes

V = IR (Ohm's Law)

I = V/R = 5 V / 25 Ω = 0.2 A

300

What is the speed of sound in air?

343 m/s

300

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of a substance by one degree Celsius

Specific heat

300

Considered to be "the first computer programmer"

Ada Lovelace

400

Momentum is not completely conserved in ____ collisions.

inelastic

400

What is the SI unit of wave intensity?

W/m2 (Watts per meter squared)

400

This kind of process occurs at a constant pressure

Isobaric

400

This physicist created the "planetary" model of the atom where electrons orbit around the nucleus.

Ernest Rutherford

500

What is the value of Newton's gravitational constant, up to two decimal places?

6.67 x 10-11 Nm2/kg2

500

If two charged particles have both their charges quadrupled and their distance to each other doubled, how much does the force between them increase?

4x

500

An EM wave with a wavelength of 67 x 10-11 is a ___ wave.

X-ray

500

According to the ___ law of thermodynamics, if systems A and C are in thermal equilibrium, and systems B and C are in thermal equilibrium, then systems A and B are also in thermal equilibrium.

Zeroth

500

She pioneered the usage of X-rays in medical imaging, such as when she discovered the structure of DNA

Rosalind Franklin

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