Famous Dogs w/ Physics Names (Macaluso)
The dog from Full House has this really fuzzy-head and is constantly running around in circles (actually, they're usually ellipses).
BONUS:
The Jetson's beloved Great Dane was named for this spacy prefix.
Who is Comet?
Who is Astro?
What the Artemis II crew said to pilot Victor Glover.
What is Fly Me to the Moon? (Frank Sinatra)
The only plasma theorist on the faculty of the UM Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Who is Andrew Ware?
Of all the moons orbiting one of our solar system's terrestrial planets, this is the smallest.
What is Deimos?
Andrew is currently the President of a local club known as "406 ___________ Missoula."
What is Pickleball?
Duh. The most famous cartoon dog of them all.
Who is Pluto?
This rare phenomenon occurs when the earth, the moon, and the heart are perfectly aligned.
What is a Total Eclipse of the Heart? (Bonnie Tyler)
This is the Russian word for toroid.
What is "tokamak"?
This tiny mammalian constellation is not only wicked smart, but swims across the sky immediately to the east of Aquila, the Eagle.
What is Delphinus (the dolphin)
"Andrew, I am eternally grateful you did not veto the search committee's final selection." -- Mark
Dr. Ware was not actively chair at the time, and was on _____________ when I was hired at UM in 2013.
What is "sabbatical"?
This dog traveled exactly 60 seconds into the future.
Who is Einstein? (From Back to the Future)
An appropriate way to celebrate the collapse of a massive star’s core.
What is Champagne Supernova? (Oasis)
The ratio of the plasma pressure to the magnetic pressure.
What is plasma beta? (or simply "beta")
If you see the Greek letter Λ in a cosmological equation, it is most readily associated with this phenomenon.
What is dark energy?
Andrew earned his BS in Physics from this southern university.
What is the University of Texas?
This dog was the first living creature to orbit Earth.
(Hint: It is not necessarily a physics-related or inspired name.)
Who is Laika?
What the Juno spacecraft will pass through in its final moments (and would certainly get in its hair, if it had any).
What are Drops of Jupiter? (Train)
The acronym for the largest magnetic fusion experiment ever which is being built in the south of France.
What is ITER?
This individual star served as the namesake for a class of variable stars intimately related to the work of Henrietta Levitt.
What is Delta Cephei?
Dr. Ware began his career at the University of Montana in the year:
A. 1996
B. 1990
C. 1942
D. 1986
A. 1996
This dog isn't famous, but she should be because she experiences a buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid she displaces.
Who is Barkimedes?
ESA’s Gaia mission uses parallax to map these.
What are All the Stars? (Kendrick Lamar feat. SZA)
The only Nobel Prize in Physics winner who did his research in plasma physics won the award in 1970 for "fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics.”
Who was Hannes Alfvén?
In the mid-1960's, this astrophysicist calculated the peak wavelength that should be exhibited by modern observations of the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background). Further, upon receiving an all-important phone call from Arnos Penzias and Robert Wilson, he famously quipped, "Boys, we've been scooped."
Who was Dicke, Robert.
Fill in the missing word from the title of Dr. Ware's doctoral dissertation:
"Theory of tokamak edge ___________: Drift-thermal instability-induced turbulence and ionization-driven drift wave turbulence"
What is "turbulence"?