Famous Physicists
This scientist developed the theory of relativity and is best known for the equation E=mc².
Albert Einstine
This law states that an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by a net external force.
What is a measure of how much matter is in an object?
Newton's First Law
This process occurs when a substance changes from a liquid to a gas, like water turning into steam.
Evaporation
This is the term for the back-and-forth movement that creates sound, like when a guitar string is plucked.
Vibration
Uranus and Jupiter are examples of this kind of planet.
Gas Giant
This British physicist is known for his work on electromagnetism and is credited with formulating the laws of electromagnetic induction.
Micheal Faraday
This force opposes the motion of objects sliding against each other and is often what slows them down.
Friction
This term describes the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.
Temperature
This is the term for the distance between the top of one wave and the top of the next wave.
Wavelength
This celestial object is believed to have been created by a collision with Earth.
The Moon
This Polish-born physicist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Marie Curie
This quantity, defined as mass times velocity, describes the motion of an object and is conserved in closed systems.
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.
First Law of Thermodynamics
This phenomenon occurs when two waves overlap, leading to louder or softer sounds depending on their phases.
interference
This mysterious entity comprises about 70% of the current energy content of the universe.
Dark energy
This American physicist is famous for his contributions to quantum mechanics and is known for the uncertainty principle.
Werner Heisenberg
This principle states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant, though it may change forms.
Conservation of Energy
This process describes the transfer of heat through direct contact, such as when you touch a hot stove.
Conduction
This term describes how sound waves can travel faster through water than through air due to differences in density.
Speed of Sound
The specific nuclear fusion reaction that powers the Sun.
Hydrogen to helium.
This theoretical physicist introduced the concept of the wave-particle duality of light and made significant contributions to quantum theory in the early 20th century
Louis de Broglie
This concept explains how the motion of an object changes in response to the net force acting on it, famously encapsulated in the formula F=ma.
Newton's Second Law
This principle describes how the efficiency of energy conversion processes is limited by the increase in entropy in a closed system.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
This principle states that the frequency of a wave is directly related to its energy, particularly in quantum mechanics.
The Planck-Einstein relation
This is the largest primarily rocky object known in the Solar System.
Earth