Pump Up the (Physics) Jam
This is the natural science that studies matter, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
What is physics?
These neutral particles are crucial to atomic bombs' chain reactions.
What are neutrons?
A byte is made of this many bits.
What is 8? (Note: A bit--either 0 or 1--is considered to be the smallest unit of data measurement. Computers interpret our intentions and process information by the respective representation of those "instructions" as bits.)
This data type/variable type possesses the ability to store decimal numbers, also known as floating-point numbers.
What is a float?
The mission of this US government space agency is to understand Earth’s placement in the universe and to explore space.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA?
This is a form of energy that flows from a region of higher temperature to a region of lower temperature.
What is heat?
These are the code names of the bombs used during WWII.
What are Little Boy and Fat Man?
This is the number represented by the following binary code: 1101.
What is 13? (Note: 8+4+0+1=13)
Conditional statements are a way to give instructions about when to do something. They are often referred to as this.
What are If-Then statements?
This satellite has astronauts living on it! It has housed people from not one, not two, but 15 different countries.
What is the International Space Station or ISS?
This law dictates that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy? (Note: The energy of the universe is constant; it can neither be created nor destroyed, only transferred and transformed.)
This is the name of the research and development undertaking that created the first nuclear weapons, aimed at ending WWII.
What is The Manhattan Project?
This is the sign for three in ASL. [SIGN, don't describe, your answer]
What is three (thumb, index finger, and middle finger out)?
The logic symbol != indicates this.
What is not equal to or does not equal?
This is the next destination for human exploration that includes plans to establish a permanent human settlement.
What is Mars?
These are the names of at least of five of the six simple machines.
What are lever, pulley, wheel and axel, inclined plane, wedge, and screw?
This is a reaction in which a heavy nucleus splits spontaneously or on impact with another particle, with the release of energy.
What is nuclear fission?
This is 24 in binary.
What is 11000? (Note: 16+8+0+0+0=24)
This is the coding language used by the IDE.
What is C?
These are the names of the three Astrobees.
What are Honey, Queen, and Bumble?
This is the name of cells in the ear that transduce sensory information (sounds) into electrical signals that the brain can interpret.
What are hair cells? (Note: In the eye, the cells that convert light into electrical signals are called photoreceptors and are split into two categories: rods and cones.)
This is a combination of the movie titles of two popular films released on the same day earlier this month.
What is Barbenheimer?
These are the counting signs in ASL for seven, eight, and nine. [SIGN, don't describe, your answer]
What are seven (palm out, ring finger to thumb), eight (palm out, middle finger to thumb), and nine (palm out, index finger to thumb)?
To declare a variable, these three pieces of information are required.
What are type, name, and initial value?
In 1969, this mission was “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
What is the Apollo 11 Mission?