The force that makes objects fall to Earth
What is gravity?
This famous physicist's name is used for the MKS unit of force
Who was Isaac Newton?
"Optics" is the study of this
What is (the behavior of)
light?
This Italian was known for his Law of Falling Bodies, and for telescope discoveries of the phases of Venus and the largest moons of Jupiter
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Kelvin and Celsius scales are used for measuring this physical quantity
What is temperature?
In 1903, she became the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize
Who was Marie Curie?
Einstein's most famous (short) equation
What is "E = mc2"?
This American physicist oversaw the construction of the first atomic bombs at Los Alamos
Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
The more of this an object has, the harder it is to change its velocity
What is inertia/mass?
Erwin Schrödinger used this household pet in his analogy to describe the simultaneous superposition of two quantum states
What is a cat?