Quick Maths
x2-144=?
What is +/-12?
This national accelerator facility is approximately 32.5 miles from the ODU campus and employs most of the physics department.
What is Jefferson Lab?
Launched in 1990, this space telescope initially suffered from a flawed primary mirror that blurred its images until a 1993 shuttle servicing mission installed corrective optics.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This years-long public feud over direct current versus alternating current pitted Thomas Edison against George Westinghouse, and this Serbian-American engineer and physicist.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
This classic experiment, first performed with light in 1801 and later repeated with electrons fired one at a time, produces an interference pattern that reveals the wave-like and strikingly probabilistic nature of matter and light.
What is the double silt experiment?
7cos2(x)+7sin2(x)=?
What is 1?
This secret laboratory in the New Mexico desert, established in 1943 and directed by Oppenheimer, was the primary site where the first atomic bombs were designed.
What is Los Alamos?
Launched on Christmas Day 2021, this infrared space telescope orbits about a million miles from Earth at the Sun–Earth L2 point and unfolds 18 gold-coated hexagonal mirror segments after launch.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)?
Newton and this German polymath independently developed calculus in the late 1600s, sparking a bitter priority dispute that divided British and Continental mathematicians for a century.
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
In 1798, this experiment used a delicate torsion balance to measure the gravitational attraction between lead spheres, allowing scientists to calculate the mass of the Earth for the first time.
What is the Cavendish experiment?
82/3=?
What is 4?
This European laboratory straddling the Swiss-French border, home to the Large Hadron Collider, was also the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
What is CERN?
Formerly called WFIRST, this NASA infrared telescope was renamed in 2020 to honor the agency's first Chief of Astronomy, often called the “Mother of Hubble,” and is designed to survey the sky with a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's.
What is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope?
At the 1927 and 1930 Solvay Conferences, this Danish physicist repeatedly defended the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics against a series of thought-experiment objections raised by Albert Einstein.
Who is Niels Bohr?
In this experiment, researchers fired alpha particles at a thin sheet of gold foil and were stunned when a small fraction bounced almost straight back, revealing that atoms contain a tiny, dense, positively charged core.
What is the Rutherford gold foil experiment?
d/dx(ex*ln(x))=?
What is ex*ln(x)+ex/x
This Illinois particle physics laboratory, named for a Nobel-winning Italian-American physicist, operated the Tevatron collider that discovered the top quark in 1995.
What is Fermilab?
Launched in 2009, this space telescope hunted for exoplanets by watching for the tiny, periodic dimming of starlight as a planet passed in front of its star, confirming over 2,600 worlds before retiring in 2018.
What is the Kepler Space Telescope?
In a 1935 paper, this famous scientist and his two younger collaborators, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, argued that quantum mechanics must be an incomplete description of reality, lending to the famous the EPR paradox.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This 1922 experiment sent silver atoms through an inhomogeneous magnetic field and found the beam split into two discrete spots rather than a continuous smear, providing early evidence for a quantized property later called this.
What is the Stern–Gerlach experiment?
((eix-e-ix)/2i)2+((eix+e-ix)/2)2=?
What is 1?
This Cambridge University laboratory, founded in 1874, was the site of the discovery of both the electron and the neutron.
What is the Cavendish Laboratory?
One of NASA's four “Great Observatories,” this X-ray telescope launched in 1999 and is named for an Indian-American astrophysicist who won a Nobel Prize for calculating the mass limit beyond which a white dwarf star can no longer support itself.
What is the Chandra X-ray Observatory?
Stephen Hawking made, and later conceded, a famous bet with this physicist over whether information is destroyed inside black holes.
Who is John Preskill?
This 1887 experiment used an interferometer to search for Earth's motion through a hypothesized “luminiferous ether,” and its surprising null result helped motivate special relativity.
What is the Michelson–Morley experiment?