Acronyms
NASA
What is the National Aeronautic & Space Administration?
The constant named for this physicist serves as the proportionality between energy and frequency.
Who is Max Planck?
This is created when there is a difference of charge over a distance.
What is an Electric Field?
This series of superhero films feature frequent trips to the so-called "Quantum Realm".
This type of force acts perpendicular to the surface of an object.
What is a Normal Force?
LIGO
What is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory?
This physicist discovered two elements, founded two medical research centers, won two Nobels, and coined the term radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
This set of four equations describes the interactions between electric and magnetic fields.
What are Maxwell's Equations?
In this 1997 film, based on a book by astronomer Carl Sagan, Jodi Foster’s character meets extraterrestrial beings.
What is Contact?
Air resistance belongs to this category of forces that act against the motion of an object.
What is Drag?
(Fluid Resistance is also acceptable).
LASER
What is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation?
This astronomer identified the relationship between a galaxy's distance and its speed
Who is Edwin Hubble?
One of Maxwell's equations states that there can be none of these magnetic objects.
What are monopoles?
Kip Thorne was the science consultant for this sci-fi flick featuring a supermassive black hole.
What is Interstellar?
In this type of collision momentum is conserved but kinetic energy is not.
What is an inelastic collision?
PVC
What is Polyvinyl Chloride?
This astrophysicist discovered rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radiation.
Who is Jocelyn Bell Burnell?
J. J. Thompson discovered the existence of the electron with this famous experiment.
What is the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Experiment?
The guitarist from this legendary English band later received a PhD in Astrophysics.
What is Queen?
The Coriolis belongs to this category of forces that arise from use of a non-inertial reference frame.
What are Fictitiuous Forces?
MOSFET
What is a Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor?
This physicist won the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physics and created the accepted alternative to Galilean transformation.
Who is Hendrik Lorentz?
This occurs when the incident angle of an electromagnetic wave is greater than the critical angle for a medium.
What is Total Internal Reflection?
John Lithgow played a physics professor in this wacky NBC sitcom (1996-2001).
What is 3rd Rock from the Sun?
While Newtonian Mechanics focuses primarily on the forces in a system, _____ Mechanics focuses on the energy of a system.
What is Hamiltonian?