Forces
This is the force necessary for two objects who are in contact.
What is Normal Force?
This happens when like poles of different magnets come close to each other.
What is repel?
This massless particle moves at the speed of light.
What is a photon?
This is the oldest building on WPI campus.
What is Higgins House?
This exec member has seen 3 solar eclipses in totality.
Who is Lucy A (President)?
He came up with the generic F=ma, and this is what we named the law derived from it.
Who is Issac Newton, and what is Newtons 2st Law of Motion?
This is how you find the net voltage of a closed loop circuit.
What is ∑Vclosed loop=0?
This is what your laptop would appear to be if its light was not polarized.
What is all white?
Rumor has it that you have this length of time to touch the Gompei statue after stepping on the seal, or rather according to the Tech Bible.
How long is 20 seconds?
This exec member has had two trees fall on their house.
These are the contact forces.
What are tension, Normal, and applied force?
This is calculating the Lorentz force F (electromagnetic force) exerted on a point charge when given magnetic field B and current density J.
What is F = J x B ?
This principle states that it’s impossible to know both the exact position and momentum of a particle simultaneously.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
Riley Commons and the Little Theatre used to be more akin to this place of fun and gather, before being used by the Humanities and Arts department.
What is a bar?
This exec member has never left this time zone.
This is the general theory of relativity concerned with this physical force.
What is gravity?
This Famous Physicist is responsible for the elementary equation of the force between charged particles.
Who is Coulomb?
This famous experiment demonstrated the wave-particle duality of electrons using a double slit.
What is the double-slit experiment?
Gompei’s skull is stored at this secret, or maybe not so secret, campus location.
What is the Skull Tomb?
This exec member had a bat in their freshman dorm 4 times and had to get 9 rabies shots.
Who is Lucy S (Treasurer)?
This is the force equation of Drag.
What is Fd = CDA(pV2/2)?
This is why lemons can function as power sources in this circuit: (see answer sheet for photo)
What is the lemon’s ions electrolyzing a redox reaction between the copper and zinc to form an electrolytic cell?
This happens when a particle and an anti-particle collide.
What is annihilating each other and mass converting to energy?
As of last fall, there were 5,302 full-time undergraduate students at WPI studying 39 different majors. Name of one of the 7 majors that have less than 10 students studying them.
What is (pick one) Policy Studies, Financial Technology, Liberal Arts and Engineering, Economic Science, Interdisciplinary, International and Global Studies, Humanities and Arts major?
This exec member has two moms.
Who is Brooke A (Secretary)?