Math
The mathematical operation that gives the rate of change of a function.
What is a derivative?
The physicist famous for creating three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton Newton?
A discourteous act that is an invasion of other's space and will annoy other lab users?
What is touching someone else's optics?
The boundary around a black hole beyond which no light can escape.
What is an event horizon?
The law of thermodynamics that claims that, for an isolated system, entropy always increases.
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
The change from a standard x-y cartesian coordinate system to another cartesian coordinate system offset by some angle, and often represented by x' and y'.
What is rotation of axes?
The Physicist who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
A location where rays of light do not actually, but appear to, cross or will cross.
What is a virtual image?
A highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.
What is a pulsar?
A thermodynamic process in which the energy exchange via heating is zero.
A math symbol, also referred to as a del, that resembles an upside-down Greek letter Delta.
What is a Nabla?
A Swiss mathematician who contributed greatly to the field of fluid dynamics with his special interest in the effects of pressure.
Who is Daniel Bernoulli?
A symmetric lens that is thicker at its center than at its edges.
What is a convex (double convex) lens?
The term for the required energy to cause a phase change from liquid to gas.
A second order differential operator that is written as del squared.
The physicist known for the most accurate model of the atom, which incorporates both electron wave behavior and the Heisenberg uncertainty principal.
Who is Erwin Schrodinger?
An angle of incidence at which light with a certain polarization is transmitted perfectly. Light polarized 90 degrees perpendicular to this light is reflected perfectly.
What is Brewster's Angle?
A point of gravitational equilibrium for small mass objects between two significantly more massive bodies.
What are LaGrange points?
A state of matter in which atoms or subatomic particles are cooled to near absolute zero.
What is a Bose-Einstein condensate?
The integration technique (also known as the Leibniz rule) that involves taking a partial differential of the function with respect to a newly introduced variable.
What is differentiating under the integral sign?
This Physicist gathered the evidence needed to convince the scientific community of the existence of dark matter in 1978.
Who is Vera Rubin?
An optical technique often used to investigate dielectric properties, that measures the change in polarization in light reflected off of a material.
What is Ellipsometry?
An increase in the wavelength of electromagnetic waves traveling through expanding space.
What is cosmological redshift?
For an adiabatic thermal process to also be a reversible process, it must have this other property?
What is isentropic?