It's a Material World!
These are the three parts of an atom
Electron, Proton, Neutron
Material mined only in the fictional country Wakanda, from the movie Black Panther
What is vibranium?
This material is used as the basis for almost all modern computer chips.
What is Silicon?
This planet rotates on its side compared to the others in the solar system.
What is Uranus?
The dean of E-school
Who is Jennifer West?
A common amorphous solid used in buildings
Glass
In the movie Oppenheimer, J. Robert Oppenheimer works on this secret military project to develop the first atomic weapon.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Your smartphone screen is often made from this brand of chemically strengthened glass.
What is Gorilla Glass?
This mathematician’s “constant,” approximately 2.718, is the base of the natural logarithm.
What is e?
What are the A, B, C, D, and E wings?
This property measures how much a material resists deformation under stress — often symbolized by “E.”
What is Young's Modulus?
In the move Interstellar, Bradley Cooper has a daughter named after a certain law. This law describes how things will go wrong, if given the chance.
This stretchy “material” in your kitchen comes from a protein network formed when water mixes with flour.
What is gluten?
This U.S. state is known as the “Show-Me State.”
What is Missouri?
Number of buildings on E way
What is 8?
The process of strengthening metals by heating them to form a single-phase solution, followed by rapid cooling
What is quenching/solution heat treating?
In the movie The Martian, this field of science was Mark Watney's specialty, enabling him to grow food on Mars.
What is botany?
This biodegradable polymer is the most common filament used in 3D-printing
What is PLA (polylactic acid)?
This animal has the most accurate sense of smell in the animal kingdom.
What are Bloodhounds?
This social media app was conceived of in a Waffle House here in Charlottesville.
What is Reddit?
This type of defect in a crystal lattice involves an entire line of atoms being out of position and is responsible for enabling plastic deformation in metals.
What is a dislocation?
The metal used to bind the Na’vi to Pandora’s future — a rare “superconductor” worth millions per kilo in Avatar.
What is unobtanium?
The reason nonstick pans work is because of this polymer, commonly abbreviated PTFE, and you also don't really want to be ingesting this.
What is Teflon?
This physics concept describes how systems evolve toward disorder and is often called “time’s arrow.”
What is entropy?
The person that Wilsdorf Hall was named after (first and last name)
Who is Doris Wilsdorf?