Physics History
This person proved a theorem that states that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system with conservative forces has a corresponding conservation law.
Who is Emmy Noether?
As we go from Winter to Summer, the sunset moves in this direction.
What is from South to North?
In December of 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Lab announced this exciting feat in nuclear science research.
What is a controlled fusion reaction that resulted in a net production of energy?
These planets are visible to the naked eye.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
If the position in meters of a particle is given by
x = 3sin(27t) + 8cos(3t)
The acceleration of this particle at t=0 s is this value.
What is -72 (m/s^2)
The 1921 Physics Nobel Prize was given to Einstein for the explanation of this phenomena.
What is the photoelectric effect?
This is the limit of precisely knowing a particle's position, theoretically.
What is there is no bound to the precision? (If momentum is completely unknown)
OR
what is h/(2PiΔp) ?
In 2015, direct observation of gravitational waves was made with this detector.
What is the LIGO gravitational wave detector?
This quasiparticle the the absence of an electron.
What is a hole?
If the mass of a small-angle pendulum decreases by 50%, and the length of a pendulum increases by 400%, the period of the pendulum changes by this amount.
What is the period doubles?
Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered this astronomical object in 1908 that allows the measurement of large astronomical distances.
What is a standard candle?
A volume of gas expands against a vacuum to reach twice its original volume. The work done to expand this gas is given by this expression.
What is 0 work is done?
This martian rover operated for 15 years, finally stopping transmission in 2018 after a dust storm.
What is the Opportunity?
This state of matter can flow frictionlessly.
What is a superfluid?
The given integral: ∫x exp(-cx2)dx over all space
evaluates to this value.
What is 0?
UCSB Materials and Engineering Professor Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for this discovery.
What is the invention of blue LEDs?
Because leftovers contain this, as opposed to glass or fabric, they can be heated up in microwaves.
What is water? (Or a polar molecule)
In 2004, this household tool was initially used to exfoliate single-layer graphene.
What is scotch tape?
This small Swedish village has accounted for the discovery of four elements.
What is Ytterby?
An infinitely long, straight wire carrying a current going up passes through the center of a circular loop of wire carrying a positive current going clockwise. The magnetic force on the loop due to this system is directed in this direction.
There isn't a magnetic force.
This physicist, who had only very basic formal education, was pivotal in the discovery of diamagnetism, electromagnetic induction, and electrolysis.
Who is Michael Faraday?
Newton's second law, F=ma, is modified in this way when considering special relativity.
F=dp/dt
p=𝞬mv
what is F = 𝞬ma + (d𝞬/dt)mv ?
The James Webb Space Telescope is here. (Be specific!)
What is an Earth-Sun Lagrange point? (The second earth-sun Lagrange point.)
The acronym "LASER" stands for this phrase.
What is "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"?
i^(9876543210) can be simplified to this value.
What is -1 ?