Washington #DC
The letter that is skipped in DC’s street name
(+50 if you know why)
J
(back in the eighteenth century, I and J were similar to write)
Name the GW alumn responsible for founding the grand annual physics department dodgeball tournament.
Who is Meghan Foster?
The famous name of J.J. Thompson’s model of the atom
what is the ‘plum pudding’ model
The name of the general trend line in the HR diagram
main sequence
The four nitrogenous bases that make up DNA (letters acceptable too)
A (stands for Adenine)
C (stands for Cytosine)
T (stands for Thymine)
G (stands for Guanine)
The name of the bridge that connects Georgetown to Rosslyn
key bridge
What does SCALE in SCALE-UP stand for?
Student Centered Active Learning Environment
The isospin of the lambda baryon
what is 0?
Name of the five positions in an orbital configuration where a small object affected only by gravity could be stationary relative to two larger bodies.
what are Lagrange points?
The type of chemical bond holding the two strands of the DNA double helix together, acting like a molecular zipper?
hydrogen bond
One of National Cathedral’s carved stone grotesques/gargoyles high on the northwest tower is actually this famous character.
Our SPS advisor, Professor White, has done SO much for the physics world. Name six of his current or former positions (SPS advisor doesn’t count i just said it)
What are: Professor at GW, leader of JEDI, Editor of the Physics Teacher, National Director of SPS, Program Director at the NSF, Professor at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, nuclear theorist at Oak Ridge National Lab, graduate student at Texas A&M (..and so much more)?
the first-order Born approximation is used to calculate the scattering amplitude. Name the three primary physical variables or functions are explicitly integrated over to find this amplitude
Scattering potential, momentum transfer, position vector r
What is the maximum theoretical mass limit for a non-rotating neutron star, above which gravitational collapse into a black hole is inevitable?
what is the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) limit (approximately 2.1 to 2.3 solar masses)
This variable quantifies the overall compactness of a folded protein and represents the root-mean-square distance of its parts from its center of mass.
what is the radius of gyration?
The District of Columbia gets how many electoral votes for presidential elections?
3. VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!! #electionday
Niels Bohr famously announced the splitting of the atom here at GWU. Name the two chemists were the first to actually split the atom in 1938.
+50 name the institute in DC where the fission was replicated days after the GW conference.
Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann.
bonus: Carnegie Institution
1 barn = how many m^2?
what is 10^-28 m^2?
the name of this specific theoretical framework where magnetic energy is dissipatively released in a stripped-wind geometry.
What is the ICMART model or Magnetically Dominated Jet model?
The thermodynamic equation that describes the electrical potential across a semipermeable cell membrane at equilibrium when it is permeable to multiple different ionic species with varying concentrations
What is the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz (GHK) voltage equation?
Name one president that kept an alligator as a pet.
Who is
John Quincy Adams?
Herbert Hoover?
Name ten former physics faculty members at GWU (who have not taught here in at least a decade).
Who are:
Edward Teller, George Gamow,
?
This thermal phenomenon widens neutron absorption peaks as a reactor heats up, acting as a natural safety brake to prevent meltdowns.
Doppler broadening
What pattern of polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background is hunted by cosmologists as evidence for primordial gravitational waves?
what is B-mode polarization
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In cellular membranes, this is the phase-separation phenomenon occurs when specific lipids (like cholesterol and sphingolipids) dynamically aggregate into tightly packed, liquid-ordered microdomains to sequester specific signaling proteins.
What is lipid raft formation (or liquid-liquid phase separation).