Physics Class
Day of Pop Culture
Chemistry Glossary
More Otterbein!
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In his "Principia", Newton laid out his foundational 3 laws of this as related to the effects of force & mass

Motion

400

From a radio he boasted on "Industry Baby" of having "couple grammys on him,"

Lil Nas X

400

Covalent bonds share valence these

Electrons

400
The stone carving of Otterbein University on the front of towers has this letter backwards

N

800

Produced in the disintegration of radioactive atomic nuclei, these rays have the shortest wavelength & highest energy

Gamma Rays

800

This ABC medical drama which premiered in 2005 but has kept its practice through 2025

Greys Anatomy

800

These units of heat weigh in at just over 4 joules; the ones counted by dieters are actually "kilo-" sized

Calorie
1200
The tool physicists use to measure ionizing radiation

Geiger Counter

1200

Your little sibling might have you watch this movie of a superfast animated critter 

Sonic the Hedgehog
1200

As the name implies, redox is a reaction in which these 2 actions take place

Reduction and Oxidation

1600

This 4-Letter property is the angular momentum associated with a subatomic particle

Spin

1600
In season 12 of this show I watched Gigi Goode Sashay on the runway

RuPaul's Drag Race

1600

Europium is one of these metals, though they're not as scarce as their name implies

Rare Earth Metals

1600

President Comerford is somewhat famous for absolutely despising this sandwich condiment  and banning it from box lunches around campus.

Mayonnaise

2000

This elusive form of matter interacts gravitationally but not electromagnetically, making up about 27% of the universe

Dark Matter

2000

This Katy Perry song mentions "the taste of her cherry chapstick"

"I Kissed a Girl"
2000

Though it doesn't start with that letter, "S" represents this measure of molecular disorder in a system

Entropy

2000

These two U.S. presidents have both visited Otterbein, one in 1922 and one a little more recent.

Calvin Coolidge and Joe Biden