WPI SPS
What is the name of the interim activities director for c-term 2026
Aiden
What is Newton's second law of motion
F=ma
also any other form thats just correct in general
Bomb movie based off the book American Prometheus
Which WPI professor is the advisor for SPS
Rudra Kaffle
known as the father of modern rocketry this person studied physics as an undergraduate at WPI
Robert H. Goddard
this exec member made a historical dress before
Whats the equation for torque
T = R x F
What nobel laureate known for his research in observing gravitational waves was the science advisor and an executive producer for the 2014 film Interstellar
Kip Thorne
This Professor received their B.S. in physics at WPI and their PhD in Nuclear Science and Technology at MIT
William McCarthy
Other than just physics what are the two minors the WPI physics department offers
Nanoscience Minor
Astrophysics minor
where is the actual activities director for this term
New Zealand
What is the Schrodinger equation
-iℏ (∂Ψ/dt)=HΨ
What movie had a black hole simulation accurate enough where they accidentally rediscovered that the gravity lensing lets you see the accretion disk around the top and bottom of the black hole
Interstellar
Which professor was a national minister of education science technology and scientific research
Romain Murenzi
How many undergraduate level physics courses that are 1 term long does WPI offer
(not including experimental courses or ISP)
27
The only exec member in a frat?
Who is PJ?
ΔxΔp ≥ (ℏ/2)
What nuclear physicist and inorganic chemist was responsible for containing the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, depicted in HBO Series: Chernobyl?
Valeriy Legasov
Which professor teaches an atomic force microscopy course at ETH-Zürich
Nancy Burnham
How many physics courses is a physics major at WPI required to take (excluding MQP) to satisfy the physics courses requirement?
12 courses or 12/3 units
This exec member ate a pigeon
Who is connor
what is the equation of motion of a pendulum under simple harmonic motion
(d^2θ/dt^2) + (g/L)θ = 0
What Polish mathematician and physicist is depicted in Adventures of a Mathematician, who worked on modeling nuclear bombs in the Manhattan Project
Stanislaw Ulam
Which WPI physics professor pioneered the field of Biomechatronics (biological robotics) at MIT Media Lab, and started a biomechatronics lab at WPI.
Marko Popovic
Which WPI graduate invented the one-time pad cipher, used in the BB-84 Quantum Encryption scheme?
Gilbert Vernam