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Scientific method and a new version of the telescope allowed him to study the universe and come up with physical laws.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
A quantity equal to distance traveled divided by time.
What is speed?
Measures either compression, tension, torque, or gravitational pull.
What is a force gauge?
The study of subatomic particles.
What is particle physics?
The force exerted on an object when the object is being rotated around an axis.
What is torque?
Showed we can use mathematics to explain the physical world.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Explains the force exerted by objects on one another.
What is Newton's law of gravity?
Uses a light that rapidly turns on and off to show the exact amount of time that has passed, measuring the speed of rotating objects.
What is a stroboscope/strobe light?
An instrument in which beams of particles shoot through a tunnel at high speeds and collide with eachother.
What is a particle accelerator?
A systematic study of how things work.
What is scientific investigation?
Greek guy that developed a type of geometry based on a set of axioms.
Who is Euclid?
In mathematics, a value that does not change.
What is a constant?
What is a laser speed gun?
Particles thought to be smaller than a proton or neutron.
What are quarks and leptons?
Unit of measure for electrical energy.
What is a voltameter?
French mathematician who further developed Algebra.
Who is Francois Viete?
Explains how something in the physical world works and cannot be broken.
What is a law of physics?
Measures light waves.
What is a spectrometer?
CERN is an acronym for this organization with a huge base on the border between Switzerland and France.
It's the flow of electrical charge.
What is current?
Persian mathematician who lived from c. 780-850 AD who is thought to have created Algebra.
Who is al-Khwarizmi?
Used to observe how voltage signals vary with time.
What is an oscilloscope?
A particle physicists think may be what gives matter its mass.
What is a Higgs-boson?
What is electromotive force?