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100

What is velocity measured in?

m/s

100

Which physicist is known as "The Father of Classical physics"?

Sir Isaac Newton

100

The velocity divided by time equals what?

Acceleration

100

What is momentum's formula?

mass times velocity

100

Who was first to be able to explain the photoelectric effect?

Albert Einstein

200

What is acceleration measured in?

m/s2

200

Which physicist discovered the concept of an electromagnetic field, leading to the creation of an electric motor?

Michael Faraday

200
The increase in frequency of sound, light, or other waves as it gets closer to the observer and the decrease in frequency of those waves as they get further from the observer is known as what?

The Doppler effect

200

Yes/No: If a car rounds a turn at a constant speed, is it accelerating?

Yes

200

What theory explains how speed affects mass, time, and space?

Special relativity

300

What are the units in a Hertz?

1/s

300

Which physicist and astronomer was prosecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for promoting the heliocentric theory (that said that the sun was at the center of the solar system)?

Galileo Galilei

300

"Every action has it's equal opposite reaction" is known best as...

Newton's 3rd law of motion

300

When a car rounds a sharp turn, you bump into the door. Why is this?

Because your body is an object in motion which wants to continue in a straight line, but the car door got in your way.

300

What principle states that by precisely measuring the position of an object decreases the accuracy of trying to predict the momentum based off the initial conditions?

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

400

What is the SI unit for energy?

A Joule

400

Which physicist's name can be filled in with this famous experiment:

____________'s cat 

Schrodinger

400

The natural attraction that occurs between all things that have mass is known as what? 

*Hint: This thing IS NOT A FORCE!!!*

Gravity

400

If you lift two loads up one story, how much work do you do compared to lifting just one load up one story?

Twice as much

400

In the electron-slit experiment, what human action leads to a drastic change in the results of the experiment?

Observation (yes, just watching the experiment changes its outcome!)

500

What are the units in a Newton?

kg x m/s2

500

Who first suggested that particles could be described as waves as well?

Louis de Broglie
500

The transfer of energy from one source to work in another demonstrates what concept?

Conservation of energy

500

If a person threw a softball straight up, which of the following would equal zero when the ball reaches its maximum height?

1. Speed

2. Velocity

3. Acceleration

Speed and velocity (1 and 2)

500

What is theorized to (very, very, very, very slowly) shrink black holes?

Hawking Radiation