Name That Meme!!
This 2012 meme features a Shiba Inu dog surrounded by multicolored Comic Sans text like “so wow,” “much amaze,” and “very cute.”
Doge
This German physicist developed matrix mechanics before Schrödinger dropped wave functions
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true"
Niels Bohr
This 2006 song by Gnarls Barkley was all over the radio and asked if you were out of your mind, or just…
Crazy
A 1000 kg car is traveling at a speed of 20 m/s. Question: What is the kinetic energy of the car?
200,000J
Who Painted the Mona Lisa?
Da Vinki??
This woman, denied the Nobel Prize, explained beta decay and helped build the foundation for nuclear physics.
Who is Lise Meitner?
"I have not the slightest idea what this equation means, but on the other hand I think that nobody else has, either."
Paul Dirac
The Baha Men barked their way to fame in 2000 with this high-energy party anthem.
Who Let the Dogs Out?
An electron in a hydrogen atom is in the n = 2 energy level. What is the energy of the electron?
-3.4eV
This meme was born from a press interview where this actor stared blankly into space while his co-star answered questions about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Sad Ben Affleck
This Indian physicist predicted the existence of a particle later discovered and named after him: the boson.
Satyendra Nath Bose
“I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.”
Erwin Schrödinger—on quantum mechanics
Gotye teamed up with Kimbra for this emotional 2011 breakup song that became a viral sensation.
Somebody That I used to Know?
A wave has a frequency of 5 Hz and a wavelength of 2 m. What is the speed of the wave?
10 m/s
In summer 2023, TikTokers turned a McDonald’s birthday promo into horror-comedy gold by pretending to mysteriously disappear or "die" after drinking this milkshake.
Grimace Shake
This Swiss physicist quietly worked out the math behind superconductivity while his colleagues grabbed the spotlight.
Fritz London
“In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
Ernest Rutherford
This catchy 1996 song by Los Del Río came with a dance that became a global craze.
Macarena
A disk with a moment of inertia I = 0.5kgm^2 rotates with an angular acceleration 4 rad/s^2. What is the torque applied to the disk?
= 2N*m
What happened to this cat on Tuesday?
Pull up cat: Tuesday I was through with hoping
This Chinese-American experimental physicist confirmed the weak interaction violates parity symmetry—and was also denied the Nobel Prize.
Chien-Shiung Wu
"There was a young lady named Bright, who traveled much faster than light. She set out one day, in a relative way, and returned on the previous night."
This 1982 synth-pop hit by A Flock of Seagulls featured a singer on the run, and helped define '80s music and hair.
I Ran (So Far Away)
In a rotating reference frame with an angular velocity of ω=3 rad/s, a mass m=1.5 is located at a distance of 4 meters from the axis of rotation. What is the fictitious centrifugal force acting on the mass?
54N