History of Physics
The name of the first artificial satellite in space (also provide the country of origin)
What is Sputnik? (Russia)
This is the kind of friction a ball rolling without slipping experiences at its contact point
What is static friction?
The constellation that represents a hunter with a weapon.
What is Orion?
This is the name given to the "point of no return" in a black hole, where not even light can escape once crossed.
What is the event horizon?
The name of the first man in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
The man responsible for discovering that electric currents create magnetic fields
The magnitude of the electric field inside of a conductor
What is zero?
The mass limit for a white dwarf which, if exceeded, causes the star to supernova.
What is the Chandrasekhar limit?
The name for the theory that states that once-connected particles continue to affect one another even through vast distances and time.
What is quantum entanglement?
This particle is theorized to travel faster than light.
What is a tachyon?
The scientist credited for the discovery of the photoelectric effect with a Nobel Prize in 1921.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The lorentz gamma factor for a particle moving at c*sqrt(2)/2
What is sqrt(2)?
The only planet in the solar system whose magnetic axis is 60 degrees off its rotational axis AND offset from its center by one-third of its radius.
What is Uranus?
This massless, uncharged particle is hypothesized to be the carrier of the gravitational field.
What is a graviton?
This is what NASA stands for.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This spacecraft is the only one to have flown past Neptune.
What is Voyager 2?
The principles that link the laws of thermodynamics to the statistical/probabilistic behavior of molecules.
The discovery of this showed that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic, meaning it appears the same in all directions.
What is the Cosmic Microwave Background?
The name of the strongest known magnets in the universe.
What are neutron stars/magnetars?
The theoretical region in spacetime in which general relativity breaks down.
What is a singularity?
The woman illustriously known as the "Chinese Madame Curie" and "Queen of Nuclear Research" because of her contributions to the Manhattan Project.
Who is Chien-Shiung Wu?
The name for the fictitious force that an object in a rotating frame experiences.
What is the Coriolis force?
The no-hair theorem states that black holes can only be characterized and differentiated by these three properties.
What are mass, momentum, and electrical charge?
The name of the phenomenon in which virtual particles can briefly spawn into existence.
What is quantum fluctuation?
The exact solution to Einstein's field equations in General Relativity that describe the gravitational field outside a spherical mass, assuming the electric charge and angular momentum are 0.
What is the Schwarzchild metric?