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100

The person who's name is used for classical mechanics.

Who is Newton?

100

Maxwell's equations are used often in this field.

What is Electricity and Magnetism?

100

There are this many Physics Student-Faculty research programs at LVC.

What is 3?

100

This is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win it twice.

Who is Marie Curie?

100

This is the powerhouse of the cell.

What is the mitochondria?

200

This is the name of the issue when you travel to a planet and back close to the speed of light and your sibling of the same age is older.

What is the Twin Paradox?

200

This branch of physics started once energy was discovered to be quantized and there was a wave-particle duality.

What is Quantum Mechanics?

200

These are the universities that work with LVC on the 3+2 program.

Who are Penn State and Case Western?

200
This "light bulb" moment for Einstein in 1921 helped him get the Nobel Prize.

What is the photoelectric effect?

200

The point where the temperature in Celsius equals the temperature in Fahrenheit.

What is -40 degrees?

300
This is how moving clocks run compared to stationary clocks.

What is slower?

300

Boltzmann laid down the fundamental groundwork for this field of physics.

What is Statistical Mechanics?

300

There are this many labs in the Physics department.

What is 4?

300

With weak forces named after him, he won the Nobel Prize in 1910 for his equation of state work for liquids and gases.

Who is Johannes Diderick van der Waals?

300

These are the two "non-silvery" metals.

What are gold and copper.

400

The first picture of a Black Hole was released on this date.

When is April 10, 2019?

400

Tied into the origin of the universe.

What is Cosmology?

400

These two professors retired last year.

Who are Dr. Day and Dr. Hurst?

400

This is the number of times the Nobel Prize in Physics was not awarded to someone since being founded in 1901.

What is 6 times?

400

This letter is not found in the spelling of the numbers between 0-999.

What is 'a'?

500

Light traveling in water has a phase speed 0.75c. The charged electrons travel faster. This is the resulting radiation. 

What is Cherenkov Radiation?

500

DAILY DOUBLE: This field uses physics principles to solve economic problems.

What is Econophysics?

500

These are the Physics professors at LVC.

Who are Dr. Pitonyak, Dr. Veenhuizen, Dr. Walck, Dr. Hurst, Dr. Jasinski, Professor Light, and Dr. Day?

500

He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for "theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology".

Who is James Peebles?

500

There are this many people in a room to statistically give a ~50% probability that two of them have the same birthday.

What is 23 people?