Space & Astrophysics
The name of the North Star
What is Polaris?
The reason your voice sounds deeper in your head than in voice recordings
What is bone conduction?
The name of the force that slows an object down as it slides
What is friction?
The basic unit of electrical resistance
The reason why the spaceships making noise in space during Star Wars is incorrect
What is the fact that sound needs a medium to travel? (Space is a vacuum)
The largest galaxy in the local group of galaxies
What is Andromeda?
The gear in manual cars that produce the most torque
What is first gear?
The law that describes the relationship between an object's mass, acceleration, and it's force
What is Newton's Second Law?
The full name for an LED
What is Light Emitting Diode?
The cause for why the helium-filled balloons from Up allows the house to rise into the air.
What is the fact that helium is less dense than air? (assuming there were enough balloons)
The chemical responsible for Mars' red color
What is Iron oxide/rust?
The cause for your ears popping in airplanes
What is the pressure difference between the inside and outside of your ear?
The resistance to change in motion
The material commonly used in superconductors such as transistors and diodes.
What is silicon?
The reason why The Flash experiences time slower while running fast
What is time dilation?
The planet in the solar system that experiences the shortest days
What is Jupiter? (9.9 hours)
The phenomenon responsible for the change in sound when ambulances and motorcycles drive by you?
What is the doppler effect?
What is Hooke's Law?
The amount of voltage an electric eel can produce
What is ~500 volts?
The physical principle that allows WALL-E to fly through space with a fire extinguisher
The amount of (Earth) days that Mercury revolves around the sun
What is 88?
The reason why birds don't get shocked when standing on power lines
What is no potential difference/complete circuit?
An animal that can survive a fall from their terminal velocity
What is a squirrel?
The devices that acted as transistors for early computers
What are vacuum tubes?
The scientific principle that the movie Interstellar based on for its scientific accuracy
What is general relativity?