Electricity and Magnetism
Quantum
Optics
Astronomy
Physics in Pop Culture
100
___ is a measure of the propensity of charge to flow from one place to another
Voltage
100
This theoretical framework claims to provide a unified description of gravity and particle physics
String theory
100
This is the spectra of emission for what element?
Hydrogen
100
The ecliptic currently passes through this many constellations.
13
100
This 90s sci-fi series protagonist received a bachelors in physics.
Dana Katherine Scully
200
The physical phenomenon in which certain electrically uncharged materials strongly attract others.
ferromagnetism
200
In the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, these two measurable properties of a particle cannot be observed precisely at the same time.
Position and momentum
200
This famous experiment showed that light followed the superposition principle
Young's double slit experiment
200
The name of the astronomer who discovered what became key evidence for dark matter through studying rotation curves of spiral galaxies.
Vera Rubin
200
This 100 minute film is a story of the large hadron collider at CERN and its discovery of the Higgs Boson particle in 2012.
Particle Fever
300
an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors. Under the control of an external circuit, each capacitor can transfer its electric charge to a neighboring capacitor.
charge-coupled device (CCD)
300
The frequency associated with the famous forbidden transition of Hydrogen observed by radio telescopes.
1420 MHz (or 1.42 GHz)
300
Laser is an acronym for this longer title.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
300
The full name for the telescope with the acronym "ALMA"
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
300
This 1997 science fiction film stars Jodie Foster as a scientist who discovers evidence of communications with aliens.
Contact
400
Los Alamos National Laboratory contains the world's most powerful magnet of __ Tesla that can generate fields that last only a few seconds.
100
400
This discovery led to the 1927 Nobel Prize for using both special relativity and quantum mechanics to explain the interaction between high frequency photons and charged particles
Compton scattering
400
"_____": or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a collection of three books by Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704
Opticks
400
The name of the cancelled telescope intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter.
Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL)
400
This novel, by Dan Brown, involves antimatter created at the LHC to be used in a weapon against the Vatican.
Angels & Demons
500
The name for the electromagnetic radiation emitted when charged particles travel in curved paths.
Synchrotron radiation
500
The first antiparticle to be discovered
positron
500
There is rarely any significant light in the ocean beyond __ meters deep
200
500
The type of interferometry that mixes signals from a collection of telescopes to produce images having the same angular resolution as an instrument the size of the entire collection.
aperature synthesis
500
This musician completed his PhD thesis titled "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud"
Brian May (lead guitarist of Queen)