Women in Physics
What percent of physics Bachelor degrees are helf by women?
Hint: It's less than 50%
25%
How fast is the speed of light?
a) 3 m/s
b) 7,000 m/s
c) 20,000 m/s
d) 300,000 m/s
d) 300,000,000 m/s! That's equal to 1 foot per nanosecond!
Where is the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located?
The South Pole/Antarctica
What are the University of Utah's colors?
Red + white
How many women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics (out of 229 people total)?
Hint: It's less than 50
5
a) 5 years
b) 9 years
c) 26 years
d) 34 years
b) 9 years
How many cosmic rays are detected by IceCube per day?
a) 100
b) 360,000
c) 4,200,000
d) 275,000,000
d) 275,000,000 (275 million!)
Which of the following is not a designation the University of Utah has?
a) Largest total enrollment in Utah
b) First university in Utah
c) State Arboretum of Utah
d) Member of the Association of American Universities (AAU)
a) Largest total enrollment (the U is #2, UVU is #1!)
Isabelle Stone was the first woman to earn a PhD in physics in the United States. What year did she earn it?
a) 1853
b) 1876
c) 1897
d) 1902
c) 1897, from the University of Chicago
How long does it take the International Space Station to orbit Earth?
a) 20 minutes
b) 50 minutes
c) 90 minutes
d) 130 minutes
c) 90 minutes
How long did it take to construct IceCube?
a) 5 years
b) 7 years
c) 10 years
d) 12 years
b) 7 years, 2004-2010
The University of Utah has an international campus. What country is it located in?
a) Italy
b) South Korea
c) Brazil
d) Egypt
b) South Korea
Who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for her contribution to the understanding of radiation?
a) Rosalind Franklin
b) Lise Meitner
c) Marie Curie
d) Barbara McClintock
c) Marie Curie
How big would a particle accelerator need to be to have the same energy as cosmic rays?
a) The same size as Salt Lake City
b) The same size as Earth's equator
c) The same size as Mercury's orbit
d) The same size as the distance from the Sun to Pluto
c) The same size as Mercury's orbit
How big is the IceCube detector?
a) 1 cubic kilometer of ice
b) 5 cubic kilometers of ice
c) 10 cubic kilometers of ice
a) one cubic kilometer of ice, which is enough water to fill one million swimming pools!
How many main research areas does the physics department have?
a) 2
b) 4
c) 6
d) 8
c) 6
We have astronomy, astroparticle physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, high energy physics, and physics education research!
Who was the first woman to orbit the moon and what mission was she on?
a) Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6
b) Christina Koch, Artemis II
c) Jannicke Mikkelsen, Fram2
d) Sarah Gills, Polaris Dawn
b) Christina Koch, Artemis II
Which planet (assuming it was shrunk down!) could float in a bathtub due to having a density less than water?
a) Saturn
b) Neptune
c) Mercury
d) Jupiter
a) Saturn
How much data is collected daily?
(for reference, your phone hold between 64 and 256 Gigabytes (GB)!)
a) 1 GB
b) 10 GB
c) 100 GB
d) 1000 GB
d) 1000 GB! This is equal to 1 Terabyte
Which company below does not have a founder/co-founder who graduated from the University of Utah?
a) Pixar
b) Adobe Systems
c) Atari
d) Apple
d) Apple
Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull graduated with his BS, MS, and PhD
Adobe Systems co-founder John Warnock graduated with his BS, MS, and PhD
Atari co-founder (and Chuck E Cheese founder!) Nolan Bushnell graduated with his BS