Waves & Particles
It stops radio waves.
What is concrete?
This invention converts energy from one form to another.
What is a dynamo?
This person stated that electric charge is carried by tiny particles, which he called "corpuscles of electricity".
Who is J.J. Thomson?
The name of the elements discovered by the Curies.
What is polonium and radium?
__________ are formed by getting rid of, taking in or sharing electrons.
What is a molecule?
Electromagnetic radiation is visible in this form.
What is light?
We recreated Alessandro Votla's electricity experiment using these disc shaped items and this type of solution.
What are pennies and nickels and electrolyte solution?
This person created an oil drop experiment that measured the charge of an electron. It is often cited as the greatest experiments of all time.
Who is Robert Millikan?
J.J. Thomson used this dessert to incorrectly represent an atom.
What is plum pudding?
What is noble or inert?
Short waves give what type of frequencies? Please give an example.
Cockcroft and Walton designed something called the "atom smasher". It proved this formula which shows that mass and energy are equivalent.
What is E=mc2?
This scientist discovered x-rays.
Who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
_________ carry a positive electrical charge that exactly balances the negative electrical charge of _________.
What are protons and electrons?
The moving atomic particle that makes metals good conductors.
What is an electron?
Long waves give off what type of frequency? Please give an example.
What are low frequencies? What are microwaves, radio waves, TV waves, cell phone waves?
This law of conservation states that energy can be changed from one form to another, but neither can be destroyed.
What is the law of mass-energy conservation?
This scientist's contribution to physics related particles and waves and resulted in a constant known a h.
Who is Max Planck?
These particles are found in the nucleus of every atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
The one thing whose measured speed is the same for all observers.
What is Light?
The language that best communicates how waves and particles behave ...
What is "the language of mathematics"?
The Manhattan Project, America's effort to build the first nuclear fission bomb, was located where?
What is Los Alamos, New Mexico?
This scientist's first job was at a patent office.
Who is Albert Einstein?
_______ behaves as both a wave and a particle.
What is an electron?
The difference between fusion and fission is ...
What is "energy released from the combining of light nuclei to form a heavier nucleus (fusion) and the release of energy due to the splitting of heavy atoms into two or more parts (fission).