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?
The building where the physics department is located
What is Neidig-Garber Science Center
This is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win it twice.
Who is Marie Curie?
This planet is the hottest planet in the solar system.
What is Venus?
This person's tombstone bears the inscription S = k log W
Who is Ludwig Boltzmann
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?
It takes approximately this many minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth
What is 8?
This person went by the pseudonym Nicholas Baker during their time at Los Alamos for security reasons.
Who is Niels Bohr?
What is acoustics?
DAILY DOUBLE: This professor played defense on the LVC men's soccer team
Dr. Pitonyak
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 unit measures the spiciness of food.
What is a Scoville unit?
Einstein's first job out of college.
What is a patent clerk?
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?
This is the most massive quark.
What is the Top Quark?
This famous building is where Galileo conducted his famous 'two weight' experiment.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
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?
This ingredient is what causes a souffle to rise.
What is egg?