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100
Daily Double:
0.511 MeV
What is the rest mass of an electron?
100
The variable of the critical exponent that characterizes how the heat capacity diverges near a second-order phase transition
This is also Rosty's Favorite Greek Letter.
What is alpha?
100
This is the Magnetic Field outside of an infinitely long solenoid.
What is 0?
100
The Geiger–Müller tube is the main component of this handheld radiation counter
What is the Geiger Counter?
100
This the Spring constant of this material in N/m
What is 400 N/m?
100
In 1900 this German introduced the idea that energy comes in tiny packets he called quanta.
Who is Max Planck?
200
This is the generally accepted number for the amount of fundamental particles described by the standard model.
What is 17? or How much is 17?
200
The law that states entropy never decreases for an isolated system.
What is the second law of Thermodynamics?
200
His 1827 work On the Modes of Conduction gave us the law V=IR
Who is Ohm? or who is George Ohm?
200
What is a Pulsar?
200
The period (T) of a pendulum for small angles is dependent upon these two variables.
(Hint: One is almost always held constant)
What are g and L?
2pisqrt(L/g)
200
DAILY DOUBLE:
What is the middle name of this OSU Physicist?
(Hint: His initials are JGBH)
What is Joseph Glenn Biddle Haley?
300
This is the full name of the Acronym ATLAS. The Detector at CERN.
What is A Toroidal LHC Apparatus?
300
S=k _B ln(Ω)
What is the Equation of Entropy?
or
What is Entropy?
300
∇⋅E=ρ/ε_0
What is Gauss's Law of Electricity?
300
This is the process by which a star converts hydrogen into helium, releasing enormous amounts of energy.
What is nuclear fusion.
300
T - U
What is the Lagrangian?
300
He/She wrote the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
2x Points for who published it.
Who is Isaac Newton?
For 2x: What is The Royal Society in London?
400
This is the particle that the quarks make up.
What is a Proton?
400
the operator that gives you the total, not just kinetic, energy
What is the Hamiltonian Operator?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the wavelength of a common household 2.4 GHz Band
What is 12.5 cm?
400
Nicknamed the Math Planet, this was the first planet to be discovered using mathematical predictions.
What is Neptune?
400
this quantity does not exist without change in position.
What is work?
400
Edison’s original light bulb used this inert gas today to prevent filament oxidation
What is Argon?
(I guess I can also accept what is krypton?)
500
The top quark was discovered in 1995 from collision produced at this laboratory.
What is Fermilab (by the Tevatron accelerator)
500
The number of distinct spin orientations for an electron in a uniform magnetic field
what is 2?
500
It equals the total charge enclosed divided by ε₀, according to Gauss’s law
What is Electric Flux?
500
This radius of the event horizon of a black hole is named for this German scientist.
Who is Karl Schwarzschild. (Schwarzschild radius)
500
This is the Moment of Interia for a Thin Spherical Shell
What is 2/3 MR^2
500
A 1997 torsion-balance study at the University of Washington confirmed Newton’s inverse-square law down to 0.1 mm using this element as the test mass
What is Gold?