This type of energy pertains to objects in motion.
What is Kinetic Energy
100
Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and this planet will let you put a ring on it.
What is Neptune?
100
Allegedly, he measured the gravitational acceleration by dropping objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Who is Galileo?
100
He said: “I think, therefore I exist.”
Who is Descartes?
100
This force is the weakest of the four fundamental forces of nature.
What is gravity?
200
This concept of motion or lack of motion is described in Newton’s First Law.
What is Inertia?
200
This is the most abundant known element in the universe.
What is hydrogen?
200
This ancient Greek mathematician is famous for his ideas on fluid mechanics and buoyancy.
Who is Archimedes?
200
A towering ancient Greek figure known as the father of the field of logic.
Who is Aristotle?
200
In this type of radioactive reaction, a neutron decays into a proton, an electron, and an electron antineutrino.
What is beta decay?
300
This event in space creates an area that is so dense, that not even light can escape its gravitational pull.
What is a Black Hole?
300
This constitutes the majority of the mass in the universe.
What is dark matter?
300
Known for his contributions to the alternating form of current, this physicist is also known for a cage named after him.
Who is Tesla?
300
This name is given to the philosophical view that each event in the world has been pre-ordained by virtue of previous events and the general rules by which the universe functions.
What is Determinism?
300
This competing entities can be one and zero at the same time.
What is a quantum bit (q-bit)?
400
Discovering that the current in a circuit is directly related to the voltage it carries, this scientist had a law named after him (he probably was not a yoga enthusiast).
Who is Ohm?
400
Saturn’s largest moon and a Tennessee football team is named after this mythological being.
What is Titan?
400
Invented the battery.
Who is Volta?
400
This idea advocates keeping it simple.
What is Occam's razor?
400
These waves travel in the direction of their propagation.
What are longitudinal waves?
500
This principle states that a system always tries to minimize its action.
What is the principle of least action?
500
It was this scientist that show that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, implying the universe is expanding.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
500
This famous physicist discovered dispersive properties of white light through a glass prism, an image familiarly known to be the artwork of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
500
Named after this philosopher, this idea states that local inertial frames are determined by large-scale distribution of matter, and was also used by Einstein in his formulation of relativity.
Who is Ernst Mach?
500
In this material with a chickenwire structure, electrons have no mass.