Scientists
He discovered the laws of gravity and motion.
Who was Isaac Newton?
Einstein is best known for establishing this theory, which was first confirmed with a solar eclipse in 1919.
What is General Relativity?/ Who established General Relativity?
According to this law, a body shows no change in its state of motion unless acted upon by an external force.
What is Newton’s First Law of Motion?
It is the hottest planet in our Solar System
What is Venus?
It is the SI unit of temperature which only has positive values.
What is Kelvin?
He explained how black holes reach the end of their life.
Who was Stephen Hawking?
Rutherford’s alpha particle scattering experiment led to the discovery of this subatomic particle.
What are protons?
The 3 equations of motion are only valid when this quantity is constant.
What is acceleration?
This celestial body is made up of ice, rocks and dust and has a tail.
What is a comet?
It is a point on the principal axis of a spherical mirror where parallel light rays converge after reflection.
What is Focus?
He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church for suggesting that the Earth revolves around the Sun, and not the other way around.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Michael Faraday discovered this principle of electromagnetism.
What is electromagnetic induction?/ Who discovered electromagnetic induction?
This force acts on a car moving around a curve.
What is Centripetal Force?
It is the largest moon in the Solar System.
What is Ganymede?
The atomic bomb is based on this principle.
What is Nuclear Fission?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only woman to win the Nobel prize twice.
Who was Marie Curie?
Marie Curie established this branch of atomic physics.
What is radioactivity?/Who discovered radioactivity?
This principle states that a body immersed in a fluid is subjected to an upward force equal to weight of the displaced fluid.
What is Archimedes Principle?
This planet’s day is longer than its year.
What is Venus?
Energy is constantly created in the Sun by this principle.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
He, alongside Niels Bohr, is credited to be the father of Quantum Physics.
Who was Max Planck?
James Chadwick discovered this subatomic particle.
What is Neutron?/ Who discovered the Neutron?
These are emitted by the hot filament in a cathode ray tube.
What are Electrons?
It is the region beyond Neptune's orbit where icy bodies lie.
What is the Kuiper Belt
This is the process by which a fluid flows into a narrow space against the force of gravity.
What is capillary action?