This professor works with superconductivity is a physics advisor and used to lead SPS.
Who is Dr. Biswas?
100
Newton's second law
What is F = MA
100
Mass of the electron in electron volts, because mass is really just energy.
What is 511 keV?
100
The physicist won the Nobel prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. He also did work with Brownian motion and developed special and general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
This experimenter found that objects of different mass fall at the same speed.
Who is Galileo?
200
This professor leads the UF LISA-LIGO group.
Who is Dr. Mueller?
200
In this kind of thermodynamic process no heat is transferred to the system?
What is adiabatic?
200
This type of object sits at the center of most massive galaxies, including the Milky Way galaxy.
What is a supermassive black hole?
200
This physicist is well known in chemistry due to his exclusion principle.
Who is Wolfgang Pauli?
200
This experiment disproved the existence of the luminiferous ether.
What is the Michelson-Morley experiment?
300
This distinguished professor works with ADMX, the axion dark matter experiment. He may or may not be a homeless man.
Who is Dr. Sikivie?
300
This is the magnetic field inside a solenoid.
What is u-naught * I * n?
300
Mass of the Earth, all you need is the correct order of magnitude. And the units, of course.
What is 10^24 kg?
300
This physicist has particle physics diagrams named after him.
Who is Richard Feynman?
300
This experiment discovered the electron
What is the Thompson cathode ray tube experiment?
400
In the spirit of CUWiP, name 2 out of the 3 women physics professors.
Who are Drs. Matcheva, Cheng, and Ray?
400
This quantity is conserved when the Lagrangian is independent of time.
What is energy?
400
Mass of the Sun. Helpful hint: is more massive than the Earth.
What is 10^30 kg?
400
This mathematician discovered general relativity at the same time as Einstein. More famously, wavefunctions live in spaces named after him.
Who is David Hilbert?
400
This experiment discovered the nucleus. The experimentalist behind it famously uttered "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
What is the Rutherford gold foil experiment?
500
This distinguished professor helped establish superstring theory in the 1970's and directs the IFT here at UF.
Who is Dr. Ramond?
500
In quantum mechanics this product of operators is called the number operator,
What is a * ( a dagger)?
500
These 2 bosons are currently the only massless particles that we know of. They carry the electromagnetic force and the strong nuclear force.
What are the photon and gluon?
500
These two physicists discovered the CMB.
Who are Penzias and Wilson?
500
This experiment measured the charge of an electron. Stokes Law can be used to calculate the drag force.