10 Letters
10 Something
What are you doing?
What's the point?
Physics couplets
Mr. Reggio
100
The distance between two crests of a wave
What is wavelength?
100
g
What is 10 m/s2?
100
Your velocity and acceleration are both 0 for several hours.
What is sleeping?
100
The point in time at which a wave has passed a crest and trough, so that it returns to its original position.
What is a period?
100
The energy of objects lifted high,
and of some others quickly speeding by.
What are potential and kinetic energy?
100
How old is Mr. Reggio?
26
200
The amplitude of a light wave
What is brightness?
200
The specific heat capacity of a material that takes 10J to raise 1kg by 1 degree Fahrenheit.
What is 10 J/kg oF?
200
Inside of your body, a string is vibrating at its fundamental frequency.
What is singing/humming a note? (Talking also works)
200
The point/angle at which refraction stops happening.
What is a critical angle?
200
The first in meters and the other hertz,
Like rhymes, they have relationship in verse.
What are wavelength and frequency?
200
What state and town did Mr. Reggio grow up in?
Pembroke, MA
300
Perpendicular to motion
What is transverse?
300
The speed of a snail that travels 6 meters in 1 minute
What is 10 cm/s?
300
A far off generator that is turning is connected to a circuit. The circuit runs to your home, which is connected to a rechargeable battery. The battery is also connected to a circuit which converts electrical energy to light and sound.
What is charging your phone?
300
The point at which an object travels faster than the speed of sound.
What is a sonic boom?
300
When particles destroy some nuclei,
When particles collide they can combine.
What are fission and fusion?
300
How many siblings does Mr. Reggio have? (Including step siblings)
6
400
This happens to a wave when it bounces off a surface and returns in the direction it came.
What is reflection?
400
The power it takes to raise a 1kg block in the air so that it travels at a constant velocity of 1m/s upwards.
What is 10 W?
400
The particles on your skin reflect light diffusely (in all directions). This light reflects off a surface spectrally (perfectly, according to the law of reflection). This light enters your eye.
What is looking in the mirror?
400
The point at which a solid object's temperature stops increasing, even though more heat is added.
What is a melting point?
400
These curiosities are different kinds,
by force between the two attraction binds.
What are positive and negative charges? (or north and south poles)
400
What is Mr. Reggio's favorite video game?
Outer Wilds
500
It can be a method of charging or heat transfer. In both cases, it requires direct contact.
What is conduction?
500
WHOLE CLASS DAILY DOUBLE
(Group who picked this gets their turn back)
The cost per unit time of running this circuit at a market rate of $0.20/kWh
What is 10 cents/day?
500
The momentum of a spherical object is in your direction. You use an object to collide with the sphere, whose impulse causes a change in momentum so that it is in an opposite direction to its current momentum. Then, you accelerate.
What is playing baseball/sports?
500
The point at which the sum of the forces on an object is 0.
What is equilibrium?
500
The lines show push and pull from far away,
A transverse wave together they create.
What are electric and magnetic fields?
500
Mr. Reggio published a physics paper on what topic?
Quantum computing! (Or more specifically, Pauli Strings!)