Light travels at a constant speed of 300,000 km/s. What is light’s acceleration?
What is 0 m/s
100
In 2017 this detector was used to observe the gravitational waves for which Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne shared the Nobel Prize in Physics.
LIGO
100
For the frequency of light
Hz
100
He discovered compton scattering
Who is Arthur Compton
100
One of two primary building blocks of the nucleus, with a positive electrical charge.
What is a proton
200
When a force is exerted on a box, an equal and opposite force is exerted by the box. What law of motion governs these action-reaction forces?
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion
200
In 2013 the Nobel Prize was awarded for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of what predicted fundamental particle?
What is the Higgs Boson
200
solid angle
sr
200
This female physicist coined the term radioactivity, won two Nobel prizes, and discovered two elements
Who is Marie Curie
200
A longitudinal wave created by a vibrating object and transmitted only through the motion of molecules in a solid, gas or liquid.
What is a sound wave
300
The only force that acts on an object in free fall
What is gravity
300
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 was awarded to Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie for his discovery of the wave nature of ______.
What is electrons
300
Energy
J
300
Discovered the law of the photoelectric effect
Who is Albert Einstien
300
A wave in which particles of the medium move in a direction perpendicular to the direction that the wave moves.
What is a transverse wave
400
We can re-write Newtown's ______ Law in order to get the equation for centripedal force
What is Newton's 2nd Law
400
In 1997 Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of methods to _____ and _____ atoms with ____ light.
What is to cool and trap atoms with laser light
400
Electric Potential
V
400
Discovered energy quanta
Who is Max Planck
400
Small particles display behavior that is similar to behaviors of waves.
What is wave particle duality
500
An astronaut (m = 60 kg) is at rest and stranded from his spaceship which is 30 meters away. His only hope to get back is to hold his breath and throw his 20 kg air tank in the opposite direction at -9 m/s to send him back towards his ship. How long will it take him to make it back to his ship?
10 seconds
500
In 1943 Jocelyn Bell Burnell was analyzing radio telescope data when she discovered ______ : rotating _____ stars that emit beams of cosmic radiation.
What are pulsars, and neutron
500
Radioactivity
Bq
500
Won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1911 for discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat
Who is Wilhelm Wien
500
Says that you cannot measure the position and velocity simultaneously to any accuracy.