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The phenomenon is the reason the sun appears red in the evening.
What is Raleigh Scattering?
This open mathematical problem is a two-dimensional idealisation of real-life furniture-moving problems and asks for the rigid two-dimensional shape of largest area that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped planar region with legs of unit width.
What is the moving sofa, or sofa problem?
One of the three main types of heat transfer.
What is conduction, or convection, or radiation?
This is the number of Nobel Prizes in Physics that have been awarded to women.
What is 5?
This type of electromagnetic wave is used for satellite communications because it is not refracted by the atmosphere.
What are microwaves?
This type of fermion is its own antiparticle, and are named after an Italian Physicist who disappeared under mysterious circumstances after purchasing a ticket to travel by ship from Palermo to Naples.
What is a Majorana Fermion?
This is the term for "cycles per time", as in the formula v = c/lambda.
What is frequency?
The SI unit for electrical resistance.
What is the ohm?
Of these choices, it is the phenomenon that is best explained by the particle nature of light: Doppler effect, polarization, photoelectric effect, interference.
What is the photoelectric effect?
These subatomic particles take their name from the James Joyce work "Finnegans Wake"? Varieties of this particle include strange and charmed.
What is a Quark?
This theorem states that an object rotating about its intermediate axis with a very slight perturbation will undergo periodic flips in its orientation in the absence of external forces.
What is the intermediate axis theorem/tennis racket theorem?
This is the object at the end of the universe, if it were to end with a "Big Crunch".
What is a Black Hole?
The bending of light around a small object, as seen in the double slit experiment.
What is diffraction?
This physicist, in 1900, introduced the idea of quantized energy and proposed a solution to the ultraviolet catastrophe.
Who is Max Planck?
In mathematical physics, Minkowski space is a four-dimensional space consisting of three-dimensional Euclidean space and this other quantity.
What is Time?
The last word of the acronym L.A.S.E.R.
For Double Points: The Entire Acronym
What is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation?
In the electromagnetic spectrum, these types of waves have the longest wavelength.
What are radio waves?
This equation uses Hamilton-Jacobi theory in combination with De Broglie's concepts of 'matter waves'.
What is the Schrodinger Equation?
The procedure for determining a orthogonal basis from a set of vectors in an inner product space.
What is the Gram-Schmidt process?
Albert Einstein's maternal first cousin.
Who is his wife! and paternal second cousin?