Know your BFF
Year 1 Physics
Year 2 Physics
Astro
Not IB Physics
100
This is represented by the variable "F" in F = ma.
What is the net force on an object in one dimension?
100
The unit of power, equivalent to 1 Joule per second.
What is a watt?
100
This was the horizontal acceleration of the projectiles we launched at coffee cans.
What is zero (m/s^2)?
100
The distance to an object whose parallax angle (as measured from Earth) is one arc-second.
What is a parsec?
100
This two letter word is the 3rd person singular present indicative of "be"
What is is?
200
This is represented by the variable "Q" in Q = mL.
What is heat / thermal energy? (or the energy required to change the phase of a mass "m" of a substance)
200
In an inelastic collision, this quantity is NOT conserved.
What is kinetic energy?
200
This is the trick for finding the maximum speed of a car driving over a hill, or the minimum speed at the top of a loop-the-loop.
What is setting the normal force equal to zero?
200
This defines the maximum possible mass of a neutron star.
What is the Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit?
200
This is the name of Mr. Brown's cat
What is Joe?
300
This is represented by "x" in the equation
I ∝ x-2.
What is the distance between the observer / receiver of a wave and the source of the wave?
300
Two waves meet at a point in space completely in phase.
What is the condition for constructive interference?
300
This is the direction of a magnetic field that would push an electron moving to the right into the page.
What is up?
300
Discovered accidentally by Penzias and Wilson in the 1960's, this is one of the three pillars of evidence supporting the big bang theory.
What is the cosmic microwave background?
300
In this 1993 Trinidadian-Eurodance smash hit, Haddaway pleads "baby don't hurt me!"
What is "What is Love?"
400
This is the baryon number of an anti-strange quark.
What is -1/3?
400
The equation for the strength of an electric field created by a point charge that is NOT in your data booklet.
What is E = KQ/r2 ?
400
The energy equivalent of the difference between the mass of a nucleus and the mass of its individual components.
What is binding energy?
400
This is the relationship that allows Cepheid variable stars to be used as standard candles.
What is the relationship between luminosity and period (of pulsation)?
400
This is the bodily function that accounts for the loss in mass when a human loses weight.
What is breathing?
500
Because you need to use it to find the "constant" if you are given a different permittivity value.
Why is there an equation for "k" in the data booklet? Isn't it a constant??
500
The Kirchhoff loop equation for the left loop in this image.
What is 10 - 2I1 - 8I2 = 0?
500
This provided evidence for the existence of the neutrino.**
What are the continuous energy spectra of beta particles in beta decay?
500
This is the expected lifetime of a star 2 times the mass of the Sun, in terms of the lifetime of the Sun.
What is 17.7% the lifetime of the Sun, Or 1/5.7 times the lifetime of the Sun?
500
The final two numbers of the sequence 4, 8, 15, 16, __, __
What are 23 and 42?