Electricity & Magnetism
Waves & Sound
Light & Color
Heat & Thermodynamics
Mr. Stedronsky
100

These particles are electrically negative.

What is the charge of electrons?

100

Something traveling faster than the speed of sound.

What does supersonic mean?

100
This is the name of the type of wave that includes light, radio, and X-rays.

What are electromagnetic waves?

100

Two units of measurement for Heat.

What are Joules and calories?

100

This is what Mr. Stedronsky primarily studied in college.

What is computer science?

200

The electrical force between two protons decreases when you do this.

What happens to the force between protons when the distance is increased between them?

200

This is the phenomenon that causes a passing firetruck's siren to sound lower pitch after it passes you by.

What is the Doppler Effect?

200

If red and blue lights are shown on the same point on a white surface, this is the color seen.

What is magenta?

200

This makes an object radiate higher frequencies.

What does raising the temperature of a material do?

200

This is Mr. Stedronsky's son's name.

Who is named Caspian?

300

In general, this type of basic circuit has less resistance.

What is one of the main benefits of a parallel circuit?

300

This is the range of human hearing.

What is important about the 20 Hz to 20000 Hz range of sound frequencies?

300

This is the type of color combining that occurs when using pigments.

What is color by subtraction?

300
Shiny objects are better at retaining heat than these objects.

Which objects are better at retaining heat than black objects?

300

These are the breed of dogs of which Mr. Stedronsky has two.

What are Italian Greyhounds?
400
Permanent magnets get their magnetism from this fundamental property.

What is electron spin?

400

This would be the beat frequency created by a 101.5 Hz and 100.25 Hz frequency.

What frequencies would result in a beat frequency of 1.25 Hz?

400

The phenomenon that affects high-frequency light more than low-frequency light in our atmosphere, leading to blue skies and red sunsets.

What is light scattering?

400

An act of water that releases energy as it changes to liquid form.

What is condensation?

400

This is the make and model of Mr. Stedronsky's car.

Who drives a Honda Civic?

500

A plug-in device that operates on 6 V should have a transformer with this many times more coils on the input than output.

What would a transformer with 20 times more coils on the input be used for?

500

The minute hand on the clock has this frequency in Hz.

Which hand on the clock has a frequency of 0.000278 Hz?

500

A radio wave with a frequency of 1 MHz traveling through space has this wavelength.

What radio frequency has a wavelength of 300 meters?

500

This temperature, if applied to the exhaust sink, could allow a heat engine to run ideally at 100% efficiency.

What could absolute zero allow a heat engine to do?

500

This is the year that Mr. Stedronsky met the girl that much later agreed to be his wife.

What happened to Mr. Stedronsky in 2002?