UCSC Resources
This garden is located at Merrill College.
What is: Alan Chadwick Garden
This observatory in San Jose is operated by UC Observatories.
What is: Lick Observatory
The top quark was discovered at this national lab.
What is: Fermilab
The weekly SPS meetings are held at this time and place
What is: Thursdays 5-6 pm at CFAO
The highest grossing film of all time
What is Avengers: Endgame
The % amount of the discount granted by the Safeway University Students & Staff Discount Card.
What is: 5%
NASA refused/decided not to rename this space telescope
What is: JWST
This circuit element is used in iPhone touch screens
What is: capacitors
The number of Mentoring Program Organizers that are graduating this year
What is: 3
BTS and TWICE both sold out this stadium in Los Angeles, CA.
What is: SoFi stadium
This is outside S&E on Fridays from 11am-3pm with carrots for $0.75/pound
What is: the Produce pop-up
This black hole is at the center of our galaxy
What is: Sagittarius A*
Pick the correct options: The {Lorenz or Lorentz} gauge is {Lorenz or Lorentz} invariant
What is: Lorenz, Lorentz
This is the week that the SPS 2024-2025 officers election is happening
What is: week 7 of Spring quarter
The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is a Greek marble sculpture created during the Hellenistic period and is currently sitting in the Louvre. It is missing these body parts
What is: arms
UCSC scientists helped design this high-energy space-telescope.
What is: Fermi-LAT
The messengers of multi-messenger astronomy
What are: neutrinos, gravitational waves, and light/EM
The part of the electromagnetic spectrum bluetooth utilizes (visible, near infrared, etc).
What is: radio waves
The location of the Undergrad Physics Collaboration Center
What is: Thimann 103A
There are few countries that fully lie below the Tropic of Capricorn, including South Africa and New Zealand. This South American country is the only country fully situated under the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is: Uruguay
This UCSC alumni was one of the first woman NASA astronauts
Who is: Kathryn Sullivan
The name of the proposed planet between Mercury and the Sun that would account for Mercury’s non-Newtonian orbit (before GR).
What is: Vulcan
The thought experiment involving a “finite being”, described in 'Theory of Heat', that attempts to disprove the second law of thermodynamics
What is: Maxwell’s demon
These are two of the professors that presented at the SPS Physics Research Opportunity Showcase on Tuesday
Who are: Bruce Schumm, Tesla Jeltema, Ryan Baumbach, Joel Primack, Steve Ritz, Stefano Profumo, Raja Guhathakurta, David Williams (presented by Olivier Hervet), David Smith, David Lederman
This college's marching band performed at the halftime show for the very first superbowl, which was held at the LA Memorial Coliseum
Who is: University of Arizona