All Unit 1
Is astrology a scientific study?
What is no?
What was the transition to thought after geocentrism?
What is heliocentrism?
The weak force is what holds you up against the curvature of spacetime. TRUE/FALSE
What is false?
What is the most famous lepton?
What is the electron?
What is light also known as? (Hint: one of the four forces)
What is electromagnetism?
What is the bending of spacetime also known as?
What is gravity?
What is the point in an orbit when the Earth is farthest from the sun?
What is aphelion?
Which force is responsible for opposites repelling and like charges attracting?
What is electromagnetism?
Which quarks make up a proton?
What is up, up, down?
A person falling has a different inertial frame as a person in a rocket ship. TRUE/FALSE
What is false?
What are the three particles that make up all matter as we know it?
What is up quark, down quark, and electron?
What is a transit?
What is when an object passes in a smaller orbit that appears to move backward against the sky, but this is an illusion?
What is Einstein's explanation of the curvature of spacetime known as?
What is general relativity?
Which quarks make up a neutron?
What is up, down, down?
In curved spacetime you need to __________ just to stand still.
What is accelerate?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud?
What is equinox?
What is the name of the particles that are smaller than protons & neutrons that make up all known matter? This is the name of the category and there are six flavors of these.
What is quarks?
What is the type of particle that is emitted by the sun yet rarely interacts with matter? Millions of these pass through us every day.
What is neutrinos?
What is the leftover radiation from the big bang? This is basically heat that radiates through the whole universe.
What is cosmic microwave background raditation?
What is the milankovitch cycle that explains why the north star moves and approximately how long is this motion?
What is precession and 26,000 years?
What did Tycho Brahe spend his life doing?
What is cataloguing and observing stars?
What are the flavors of quarks?
What is up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom?
What are the four force carriers and their corresponding force?
What is gluon - strong, photon - electromagnetism, Z boson & W boson - weak force, and bending space time - gravity?
What is the name for the straight line of an inertial observer moving through curved spacetime?
What is geodesic?