Famous Physicists and Physics Experiments
In this year, Robert Milikan Reported the results of his oil drop experiment.
What is 1913?
Marooned on a desert island and with a lot of time on your hands, you decide to disassemble your glasses to make a crude telescope with which you can scan the horizon for rescuers. Luckily you’re farsighted, and, like most people, your two eyes how different lens prescriptions. Your left eye uses a lens of power + 4.5 D, and your right eye’s lens is +3.0 D. As such, which lens should be used for the objective?
What is the +3.0D lens?
Einstein won his Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect in this year.
What is 1921?
This physicist is a member of the Knitting Knight’s club.
Who is Zack Jerzyk?
Named after famous Renaissance artists, they are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
Who are Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo?
Cavendish “weighed the world” in this year.
What is 1798?
An electron is traveling in the positive x hat direction. There is a magnetic field in the positive y hat direction. In what direction is the magnetic force?
What is the -z hat direction?
The most recent Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to these three people.
Who are Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez?
This physicist once sunk a boat in the Mississippi river.
Who is Dr. Brekke?
This part of the cell is infamously known as the powerhouse.
What is the mitochondria ?
Heisenberg published his uncertainty principle in this year.
What is 1927?
A standard deviation can be performed on a set of data if and only if these three conditions are met.
What are same method, same measurement, and same instrument?
He is the youngest to have won the Nobel Prize in physics.
Who is William Lawrence Bragg? (At the age of 25 in 1915!)
This physicist was a planetarium operator.
Who is Dr. Olson?
These are the three units of the triple f system.
What are furlong, fortnight, and firkin?
In 1974, Steven Hawking made a big discovery relating to these.
What are black holes?
This famous physics equation (discussed in Modern physics) is actually just a unit conversion.
What is E = mc2 ?
Of the four females who have won the Nobel Prize in physics, she was the second.
Who is Maria Goeppert Mayer?
This physicist was once arrested for doing physics.
Who is Dr. Mauro?
Believe to have lived in the Holy Roman Empire, this Disney Princess may have answered to Charlemagne.
Who is Snow White?
In 1945, this physicist called “father of the atomic bomb” ushered in the atomic age. (Bonus points if you can name the test.)
Who is Robert Oppenheimer? (What is the Trinity Test?)
This is what makes special relativity so special.
What is the absence of gravity?
The first Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to him.
Who is Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen? (For discovering the rays named after him.)
This physicist knocked himself out with a pulley.
Who is Hayden Splan?
This is the speed of light converted to furlongs per fortnight.
What is 1.8 x 1012 fur/ftn ?