Lasers
The property that makes lasers different than normal light
What is coherence?
The most common state of matter in the visible universe.
What is plasma?
They are the school colors of the University of Michigan?
What are maize and blue?
It is a quanta of light that carries momentum/energy
A light wave travels from one medium to another, and its wavelength reduces to half the original value. The speed of the wave changes by this factor.
What is 1/2?
The location and name of the most powerful laser in the US.
What is Umich, and what is ZEUS?
This US National Laboratory recently created a plasma that released more energy than it was supplied with through nuclear fusion.
What is the National Ignition Facility (NIF)?
In this season/year, the University of Michigan won the football championships
When is 2023?
It is what the acronym LASER stands for.
What is Light Amplification by Atimulated Emission of Radiation?
A light wave travels from one medium to another, and its wavelength reduces to 1/3 the original value. The frequency changes by this factor.
What is 1? / What is no change?
In 1964, it was discovered that lasers enable us to record these 3D objects.
What are holograms?
This item from the list below is not an application of plasma science and engineering.
1) Nuclear fusion energy
2) Nuclear fission energy
3) Propulsion
4) Water filtration
What is "2) Nuclear fission energy"?
Where was the University of Michigan originally located?
Detroit, MI
Neil shoots a laser. At some point in time, the electric field in the wave points up (to the sky), and the magnetic field points west. Neil shot the laser in this direction.
What is south?
As opposed to a classical orbit, electrons surround the nucleus in these continuous probability distributions that have discrete energy levels.
What are electron clouds? / What are orbitals? / What are wave functions?
The first laser used a solid crystal to gain energy. This is the type of crystal that was used.
What is ruby-saphire?
What is laser wakefield acceleration?
Umich has two physics buildings named after physicists. This is the name of one of those scientists.
Who is Harrison Randall / Homer Neil?
This tool causes separates the different colors in a beam of light.
They are four equations that govern the dynamics of electric and magnetic fields.
What are Maxwell's Equations? / What are the equations on Neil's tattoo?
In 2018, Gerard Merou (Founder of the Umich Center for Ultrafast Optics) and Donna Strickland (Merou's grad student in the 1908s) were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their development of a method to create ultrashort, high intensity laser pulses. This is the name of said method.
What is Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA)?
It is the distance between interacting particles in a plasma.
What is the Debye length?
The bus that can take you from the Central Campus Transit Center to the Phoenix Building?
What is the Commuter North?
During his lecture, Professor Alec Thomas shined lasers through this medium (which he found in a dusty lab somewhere).
What is a phosphate doped glass rod?
This elementary particle has the same mass and color as an electron, but it has the opposite electric charge.
What is a positron? / What is an antielectron?