Stars and Planets
The fifth planet from the sun.
Jupiter
His cathode ray tube experiment revealed the electron.
JJ Thompson.
The value that results if you multiply mass and velocity.
Momentum.
Proposed a famous cat-based thought experiment.
Erwin Schrodinger.
Type of radioactive decay where a nucleus releases a particle with two protons and two neutrons.
Alpha decay.
Adler planetarium has a full scale model of this Mars rover.
Spirit or Opportunity.
Conducted the famous double-slit experiment.
Thomas Young.
? = p2/2m
Kinetic Energy
Einstein won his Nobel prize for explaining this experiment.
Photoelectric effect.
Relativity postulate that leads to the relativity of time.
The speed of light is the same for all observers.
The farthest point from the Sun in a planet's elliptical orbit.
Aphelion.
Proposed that a changing magnetic flux creates a current or electric field.
Michael Faraday
Equation that explains why electrons cannot persist inside nuclei.
Uncertainty principle;
Attempted to detect the existence of luminiferous ether.
Michelson-Morley experiment.
Standing wave.
This hypothetical planet was proposed to explain an anomaly in the orbit of Mercury.
Vulcan
Proposed that location of events in space is relative to the observer.
Galileo Galilei.
Name this law: F = (kq1*q2)/rr
Coulomb's Law.
Performed the gold foil experiments to discover the nucleus.
Rutherford (or Geiger-Marsden).
Application of these leads to quantization of energies in the electron in a box
Boundary conditions.
The Dearborn telescope lens discovered the first white dwarf - a companion to this star.
Sirius.
Won the Nobel prize for studying stars orbiting the Milky Way supermassive black hole.
Andrea Ghez
Name one of the four of Maxwell's equations.
A. Gauss's Law
B. No Name Law
C. Faraday's Law
D. Ampere's Law
This experiment ruled out local hidden variable theories of quantum mechanics.
Aspect experiment.
Named series describing the spectral line emissions for hydrogen with visible light wavelengths.