General Physics
This fruit allegedly started it all.
What is an apple?
This branch of physics started once energy was discovered to be quantized and there was a wave-particle duality.
What is quantum mechanics?
This professor leads the 3+2 program in the physics Department.
Who is Dr. Veenhuizen?
This is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win it twice.
Who is Marie Curie?
This mammal cannot jump.
What is an elephant?
This theory states that the faster you move, the slower time is (no acceleration).
What is the theory of special relativity?
Boltzmann laid down the fundamental groundwork for this field of physics.
What is statistical mechanics?
There are currently this many research opportunities by the physics department?
What is 3?
This "light bulb" moment for Einstein in 1921 helped him get the Nobel Prize.
What is the photoelectric effect?
Canada is south of this major Michigan city.
What is Detroit?
He has four equations that are consistently used in electricity and magnetism.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
Tied into the origin of the universe.
What is cosmology?
This person is currently the head of the LVC physics department.
Who is Dr. Patton
With weak forces named after him, he won the Nobel Prize in 1910 for his equation of state work for liquids and gases.
Who is Johannes Diderick van der Waals?
This letter is not found in the spelling of the numbers between 0 and 999.
What is 'a'?
Einstein's first job out of college.
What is a patent clerk?
DAILY DOUBLE: This hybrid of chemistry and physics is taught at LVC by Dr. Marsh.
What is physical chemistry?
This is the only program requirement class for LVC physics that has 3 parts.
What is Calculus?
This is the number of times the Nobel Prize in Physics was not awarded to someone since being founded in 1901.
What is 6 times?
There are this many people in a room to statistically give a ~50% probability that two of them have the same birthday.
What is 23 people?
The experiment that said that spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized. This was a silver lining for some people.
What is the Stern-Gerlach experiment?
This field uses physics principles to solve economic problems.
What is econophysics?
These two professors have earned their Ph.D. from Lehigh University.
Who are Dr. Veenhuizen and Dr. Walck?
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for "theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology".
Who is James Peebles?
Baby Ruth was named after this person.
Who is Ruth Cleveland?