Brookhaven National Laboratory
This is BNL’s number one priority in everything we do.
What is safety?
Coming from Latin and Greek, the word spectroscopy is composed of the roots “spectrum” and “skopia” which mean this.
What are image and observation, respectively?
To make a comment in Python that won’t be read as code, one would use this special character.
What is the pound (number, hashtag) symbol?
The following code creates this output in the shell.
print(“26 + 4”)
What is 26 + 4?
This machine produces tiny beams of bright, broadband light.
What is a synchrotron?
This BNL program is your next step in your STEM journey and is abbreviated to HSRP.
What is the High School Research Program?
This type of light has wavelengths that fall between the infrared and ultraviolet ranges.
What is visible light?
Placing \n into your print parentheses results in the same function as using this keyboard key.
What is enter?
The following code creates this output in the shell.
print(26 + 4)
What is 30?
This professional ballfield is the same size as the inside of the NSLS II ring.
What is Yankee Stadium?
This is the total number of national laboratories across the United States.
What is seventeen?
This phenomenon happens when an excited electron in an atom relaxes to the ground state.
What is photon (light, energy) emission?
This special type character can be used in place of spaces when coding in Python.
What is an underscore?
This line of code needs to be included in order to see your graph or plot.
What is matplotlib.pyplot.show() or plt.show()?
This subatomic particle is what is stored in the NSLS II ring.
What is an electron?
This is BNL’s slogan.
What is “a passion for discovery?”
This is the model of light sensor we used from Adafruit.
What is the AS7341?
Declaring a variable in Python is to introduce it with a name whereas this word means to give it a value.
What is define?
The following code creates this output in the shell.
for index in range(0, 5, 1):
print(index)
What is 0 1 2 3 4
What thing is used to bend the NSLS II beam.
What is a (electro)magnet?
These two world class facilities and initiatives at BNL have helped with our foundational research questions this week.
What are CSI (Computational Science Initiative) and NSLS II?
This is the type of spectroscopy we used with our light sensors.
What is emission spectroscopy?
The coding language, Python, is named after this TV show.
What is Monty Python and the Flying Circus?
The following code creates this output in the shell.
import numpy as np
x = np.linspace(1, 10, 10)
print(x)
What is [1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.]
This is the number of Nobel Prizes (in chemistry) earned using NSLS.
What is two?