Physics
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
What word describes a theory in theoretical physics, a family of instruments in an orchestra, and cheese that you can easily pull apart?
What are strings?
This abundant material has an atomic number of 8.
What is Oxygen?
The Milky Way's nearest Neighbour, a barred spiral galaxy.
What is Andromeda?
On June 22, 1633, this man was found "vehemently suspect of heresy" for defending the heliocentric model of the solar system
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Sir Isaac Newton published the foundational laws of motion and universal gravitation in this monumental 1687 book.
What is Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica?
This is the name for the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of an object due to a black hole.
What is spaghettification?
This law states that an object in motion must stay in motion, unless acted upon by an external force.
What is Newton's First Law/the Law of Inertia?
This force keeps you in your seat when upside down on a roller coaster.
What is centripital force?
His artistic work features impossible mathematical objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, hyperbolic geometry, tessellations...
Who is M. C. Escher?
This phenomenon describes the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another with a different refractive index, governed by Snell’s law.
What is refraction?
This quantum effect proves that the act of measurement can alter or disturb the state of the system being observed.
What is the observer effect?
This type of wave is created by small vibrations in objects, and transmits at different speeds through different mediums.
What are Sound Waves?
This fundamental principle states that it is impossible to simultaneously know both the exact position and momentum of a particle.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
A brilliant French mathematician who died tragically at the age of 20 from wounds sustained in a duel.
Who is Évariste Galois?
As the "warden of the royal mint", this famous physicist brought about the prosecution of multiple counterfeiters, leading them to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Who is Issac Newton?
One of the four fundamental forces in nature, roughly 100 times stronger than the electromagnetic force, about 1012 times stronger than the weak nuclear force, and about 1038 times stronger than gravity.
What is the Strong Nuclear force?
The outermost layer of the sun, which is only visible during total solar eclipses, when the moon blocks the sun's bright disk, revealing a pearly white halo.
What is the Corona?
The Large Hadron Collider is located in these two countries.
What are France and Switzerland?
How often does the International Space Station orbit Earth?
What is 90 minutes?
This famous thought experiment involves a feline that is simultaneously alive and dead inside a box until an observation is made.
What is Schrödinger's cat?
The full acronym for LASER.
What is "Light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation"?
Any one of the parts of the light spectrum that are not visible to the human naked eye.
What is (infared, uv, x-ray, gamma, microwave, radio)?
Ordinary baryonic matter (protons, electrons, atoms) makes up only about 5% of the universe; about six times as much of this invisible substance makes up the rest.
What is dark matter?
This fundamental physical constant relates the energy of a photon to its frequency and is usually denoted by the letter h
What is Planck's constant?