Assume Smol Angle
This approximation assumes that the angle traversed by a simple pendulum is much less than 1 radian (often cited as less than 0.1 radians, about 6°). For an angle θ, it implies sin(θ)≈θ
What is the small-angle approximation?
This scientist is the only woman to have been awarded the Nobel Prize twice. Once in 1903 for Physics and once in 1911 for Chemistry.
Who is Marie Skłodowska Curie?
This hall on UNC's campus is a namesake to James Phillips, Charles Phillips, William Battle Phillips, and not the similarly named screwdriver head.
What is Phillips Hall?
Predicted by Einstein in 1916, LIGO physically measured undulations in spacetime in 2015, caused by this phenomenon generated by two colliding black holes 1.3 billion light-years away.
What are Gravitational Waves?
This law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points.
First stated as the Latin anagram ceiiinosssttuu (for ut tensio, sic uis: "as the extension, so the force"), this law is a first-order linear approximation to the real response of springs and other elastic bodies to applied forces
What is Hooke's Law?
In 2013 François Englert and this physicist won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles".
Who is Peter Higgs?
Rumored to roam the ground floor of Phillips Hall, this creature is said to gobble up "all of them virgins and pre-med students".
What is the Minotaur?
This type of star is about 20 km in diameter and has the mass of about 1.4 Suns. It is so dense that on Earth, one teaspoonful of it would weigh a billion tons.
What is a neutron star?
The resistance of any physical object to any change in its velocity.
What is Inertia?
This mathematical coincidence is an approximate relationship between the quantities pi, e, g, and 3, where pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, e is Euler's number, and g is the free fall acceleration of an object without drag in a vacuum on earth's surface in m/s^2.
What is pi≈e≈√g≈3
In 1901, this Physicist was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of x-rays.
Who is Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen?
In March of 2016, the Daily Tar Heel claimed that UNC administration considered doing this to Phillips Hall "because no one likes it".
What is closing?
Born during the process of nuclear fusion in the Sun, about 100 billion of these particles pass through your thumbnail every second.
What are neutrinos?
What are solar neutrinos?
What are electron neutrinos?
The Rayleigh dissipation function, named for John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (Lord Rayleigh), is used to handle the effects of drag forces proportional to this kinematic quantity.
What is Velocity?
Commonly used in Quantum Mechanics, this set of schemes approximates a system by "perturbing" another system that has a known solution.
What is Perturbation Theory?
In 1965, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and this curious character shared the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”.
Who is Richard P. Feynman?
Who is Sean Washburn?
In 1917, Albert Einstein inserted this term into his theory of general relativity to force the equations to predict a stationary universe in keeping with physicists' thinking at the time. When Hubble confirmed that the universe wasn't actually static, but was expanding instead, Einstein abandoned the constant, calling it the "biggest blunder" of his life. Then, in 1998, scientists discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, implying that this term might be positive and nonzero.
What is the cosmological constant?
This complex number is a measure of the resistance that a circuit presents to a current when a voltage is applied.
What is Electrical Impedence?
In 1897, this US State's General Assembly nearly passed Bill #246, which claimed that squaring the circle was possible, implying that the mathematical constant pi was not a transcendental number, having an exact value of 3.2.
What is Indiana?
In 2020, Reinhard Genzel and this physicist split half of the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”.
Who is Andrea Ghez?
In November 2012, Paul Frampton, a former professor of physics and astronomy at UNC, was convicted of this crime in Argentina and was sentenced to four years and eight months in detention.
What is drug smuggling?
In the early 1970s, Stephen Hawking showed that particle–antiparticle pairs generated at the event horizon – the outer periphery of a black hole – would be separated, one falling into the black hole while the other escaping, making the black hole a radiating body. Hawking’s theory implied that, over time, a black hole would eventually evaporate away, leaving nothing. This presented a discrepancy between quantum mechanics and general relativity, referred to as this paradox.
What is the Black Hole Information Paradox?
What is the Information Paradox?
This quantity is a measure of how resistant a substance is to compression.
What is Bulk Modulus?