This is the type of current that comes to your house.
What is AC?
100
Go greek to find this naturally occurring magnetic substance.
What is lodestone?
100
Of the three types of nuclear decay particles, this is the only type that cannot penetrate skin.
What are alpha particles?
100
This researcher discovered Radium and Polonium. She is the only person to receive two nobel prizes in different catagories. (Her daughter won twice, too!)
Who is Marie Curie?
100
Describes the electric force between two charges.
What is Coulomb's Law?
200
In alternating current, the electrons move in this manner.
What is back and forth?
200
Magnetic fields are created by this.
What is electric current?
200
The plum pudding model of atomic structure was falsified by an experiment which involved shooting alpha particles at a thin sheet of this metal.
What is gold?
200
"Zdravo! My resonating transformer is pretty electrifying, no?!"
Who is Nikola Tesla?
200
After Oersted, this made the electromagnetic relationship more direct (and proportional).
What is Ampere's Law?
300
This type of current flows from a battery.
What is DC?
300
Water is this kind of substance which is always slightly repelled by magnetic fields.
What is diamagnetic?
300
A small percentage of the potassium in a banana is this radioactive isotope of potassium.
What is Potassium-40?
300
In a choice between nuclear physics and potato farming, I choose physics every time. The Bohr model can thank me later.
Who is Rutherford?
300
This law is what makes generators work.
What is Faraday's Law
400
Conventional current flows in this direction; you must know this to use the right hand rule.
What is from positive to negative?
400
Santa lives at this magnetic pole.
What is magnetic SOUTH?
400
The type of decay seen here
222Ra88-->218Rn86 + ?
What is alpha decay?
400
I flew a famous kite (but it was never actually struck by lightning, OUCH!).
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
Because of this law, when I push a magnetic through a coil a force pushes back on me.
What is Newton's 3rd Law, or Lenz's Law?
500
This device drops the voltage between the power lines and your house to a safer level.
What is a transformer?
500
Sacre bleu! This scientist described Earth's magnetic field in his famous work, De Magnete.
Who is William Gilbert?
500
This isotope of carbon is used in radioactive carbon dating.
What is Carbon-14?
500
Call me crazy, but I'm no dummkopf. Energy and mass are simply relative.
Who is Einstein?
500
This "law" states that whatever CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong.