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100

This life science is a common choice for many college students on the pre-med track.

Biology

100

This planet has the highest mean surface temperature.

Mercury

100

This is the acceleration due to gravity at Earth's surface to 2 decimal places.

9.81 m/s^2

100

This astrophysicist who recently passed away is ineligible for a Nobel prize, as they are not given posthumously.

Stephen Hawking

200

In this STEM field, students will study many conceptual topics like data structures and discrete math.

Computer Science

200

This former planet has a moon nearly half its diameter.

Pluto
200

Velocity is a _____, while speed is a _____.

Vector; scalar

200

Alfred Nobel was an inventor best known for creating this.

Dynamite

300

Over 40% of students that major in physics and another field have their second major in this quantitative field.

Math

300

This planet has the largest angular momentum about our sun.

Jupiter

300
A particle thrown at an angle with no air resistance will follow this trajectory.

A parabola

300

This was the first woman to have won a Nobel Prize in Physics.

Marie Curie

400

According to Niche, this major is the 25th most popular in the US, with over 16,000 degrees awarded in a given year.

Chemistry

400

Of the 8 official planets, it could almost be considered a double planet, with the largest moon relative to its size.

Earth

400

The acceleration of a ball at the top of its trajectory is this.

g m/s^2

400

Albert Einstein won his Nobel Prize not for his Theory of Relativity but for this.

The Law of the Photoelectric Effect

500

In 1988, the University of Wisconsin and Wayne State offered the first accredited programs in this high-paying field of applied physics. 

Medical Physics

500

Galileo described this lowest density planet as having "ears".

Saturn
500

The two main forms of air resistance are linear and _____.

Quadratic
500

These three physicists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Gehz