This element has 12 electrons in its neutral state and a form of it is, according to pop culture, a girl's best friend.
What is carbon?
100
The scientist who came up with an equation for wave-particle duality.
Who is de Broglie?
100
Your thermometer reports 0 degrees Celsius. You know that as this temperature Fahrenheit.
What is 32 degrees?
100
This is the term for something that exists as discrete values.
What is quantized?
200
This bear is the school's mascot.
Who is Scotty?
200
Bohr's electron model works for this element alone.
What is Hydrogen?
200
This is the name for the "particle" of light
What is a photon?
200
The bridge reports a 3-meter clearance. You calculate that a truck this many feet high could drive beneath it. (1 meter = 3.28 ft)
What is 9.8 feet?
200
Electron orbitals have these, which restrict the wavelengths of light that can be emitted when an electron falls between them.
What are energy levels?
300
This is the newest building on campus, which opened in winter quarter 2015.
What is the rec center?
300
One isotope of this element has an atomic mass of 39 and 20 neutrons.
What is potassium?
300
This is the reason humans do not behave as waves and diffract through slits, etc.
What is our wavelengths are infinitesimally small?
300
Your speedometer reports that you are traveling 23 meters/sec. You are going this fast in American units.
What is 51 mph?
300
In relation to n, the quantum number l must be this.
What is n-1 or smaller?
400
This location on campus contains a wide selection of plants from around the world.
What is the botanic garden?
400
This element has electron configuration [Ar]4s13d10
What is copper?
400
The de Broglie wavelength of a tennis ball moving 30 m/s with mass 100 g.
What is 2.2X10-37
400
The lift (elevator) reports a capacity of 180 kg. You and your friend together weigh 300 lbs. This is the maximum weight of luggage you can bring aboard.
What is 96 lbs or 44 kg?
400
A quantum number l=2 corresponds to this type of orbital.
What is a d orbital?
500
This fruit, marketed as cuties or halos, was developed at UCR.
What is the clementine?
500
Marie Curie discovered this radioactive element, buried on the bottom row of the periodic table.
What is radium?
500
The energy of radar waves with v=3.35x108 Hz.
What is 2.22x10-25
500
This famous British machine would be capable of having the dimensions 3x3 m on the outside and 100x100 ft on the inside.
What is the TARDIS?
500
Quantum numbers l=0 and l=1 correspond to this type of electron.