Physics
This is the particle version of light
What is the photon?
This is UT’s current live mascot.
Who is Bevo XV?
This planet is known for its Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
This UT physics professor studies biofilms and is teaching the seminar Being Human in Physics
Who is Dr. Vernita Gordon?
This 2023 biological thriller film follows the story of an American scientist working on the Manhattan project to design an atomic bomb
What is Oppenheimer?
On the moon, it has a value 1/6th of that on Earth.
What is gravitational acceleration?
The number of acres originally set aside for the campus by the State.
What is 40 acres?
This telescope was launched on Christmas Day.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This person of the week grows hot peppers (Hint: They are a GMiP officer)
Who is Aravind?
This 2014 movie, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, follows a group of astronauts traveling through a wormhole to find a new home for mankind?
What is Interstellar?
The force keeping you in your seat when going upside down in a roller coaster.
What is centripetal force?
The amount of money UT Football spent on recruiting in 2023.
What is $2.4 million?
The Milky Way is this type of galaxy.
What is a spiral galaxy?
This female African American physicist & mathematician calculated trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for numerous early NASA missions. (Hint: Quote by John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth: “If she says they're good, then I am ready to go.")
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This 2023 Marvel movie, starring Paul Rudd, explores a realm of non-Newtonian physics
What is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?
Work on this was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.
What are attosecond lasers?
The number of degrees the university awards annually.
What is 15,000?
This diagram classifies stars based on their luminosity and temperature.
What is the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram?
This American astronomer and physicist calculated the orbital speeds of stars using the Doppler effect and realized the speeds do not correlate with the # of visible stars in spiral galaxies leading to the idea of dark matter
Who is Dr. Vera Rubin?
In the 2012 movie, “The Avengers”, Tony Stark become a master of this subject overnight
What is Thermonuclear Astrophysics?
Helium becomes liquid at this temperature. Give your answer in Kelvin.
What is 4.2K?
The University structure that used to have its own zip code.
What is Jester Center?
These stars’ luminosities pulsate periodically and were discovered by Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
What are Cepheid Variables?
This physicist shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics and was the fifth woman to do so.
Who is Anne L’Huillier?
This astronomer recently published a book called “Starstruck” and was featured on Sports Illustrated.
Who is Sarafina Nance?