Radioactivity
The decay time of an element is called ______
What is half life?
Light's form, photon or wave.
What is both photon and wave because light has a duality?
The similarities between electricity and magnets that forms electromagnets.
What is having a positive or north, and negative or south?
Name the positions of subatomic particles in an atom.
What are protons and neutrons in the nucleus and electrons in a surrounding cloud?
The amount of elements the Periodic Table of Elements has.
What is 118?
The definition of radioactivity.
What is the emission of high energy particles?
The photoelectric effect.
What is the emission of electrons when light strikes a surface?
The form of radiation with the longest wavelength.
What is a radio wave?
What atomic mass is based on.
What is amount of protons + amount of neutrons?
The first civilization to theorize atoms and why atoms were given its name.
What is Ancient Greece, and atomos meaning "indivisible" because that is what they believed atoms were?
Examples of radiation in everyday life.
What are X-rays, microwaves, visible light, smoke detectors, etc.?
Quantum entanglement.
What is a particle's ability to link with another particle and affect each other instantly even when separated by distance?
How electromagnetic door locks work.
What is sending an electric signal to attract a metal object that was obstructing the way originally?
Explain what happens when each subatomic particle is added or removed.
What is protons changing the element, electrons changing it into an ion with different reactivity, and neutrons changing it into a sometimes radioactive isotope?
The theory that attempts to unify general relativity and quantum physics.
What is String Theory?
The way carbon dating works.
What is finding the amount of Carbon-14 (radioactive isotope found in living creatures that decays) remaining in order to know how long it has been decaying?
Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment.
What is the nature of quantum superposition, allowing the cat to be both dead and alive when the box is closed?
7 types of electromagnetic radiation in order.
What are radio, microwave, infrared, visible, UV, X-ray, gamma?
Amount of neutrons Hydrogen has.
What is none?
The element Marie Curie's coffin was lined with and why.
What is lead because it absorbs radiation?
All 5 forms of ionizing radiation.
What are alpha, beta, neutron, gamma, and X-ray?
Schrödinger's Equation.
What is the theory that describes how the wave function of a quantum system evolves over time?
Name at least 2 metals that are not magnetic.
What are Aluminum, Copper, Plastic?
Oxygen's amount of valence electrons.
What is 6?
The person who is often considered "The Father of Old Physics."
Who is Aristotle?