General Physics
This fruit allegedly started it all.
What is an apple?
This branch of physics started once energy was discovered to be quantized and there was a wave-particle duality.
What is quantum mechanics?
This physicist studies cosmic microwave background polarization at the South Pole as part of a multi‐instrument telescope collaboration.
Who is Colin Bischoff?
This is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win it twice.
Who is Marie Curie?
Which famous TV series has the most episodes?
The Simpsons
This theory states that the faster you move, the slower time is (no acceleration).
What is the theory of special relativity?
Boltzmann laid down the fundamental groundwork for this field of physics.
What is statistical mechanics?
This UC professor works on large-scale neutrino experiments like NOvA, MicroBooNE, and DUNE
Who is Dr. Adam Aurisano?
This "light bulb" moment for Einstein in 1921 helped him get the Nobel Prize.
What is the photoelectric effect?
Canada is south of this major Michigan city.
What is Detroit?
He has four equations that are consistently used in electricity and magnetism.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
Tied into the origin of the universe.
What is cosmology?
He is well known as the speed demon
Who is Dr. Kominjani
With weak forces named after him, he won the Nobel Prize in 1910 for his equation of state work for liquids and gases. (Hint: A type of force is named after him.)
Who is Johannes Diderick van der Waals?
What is the only planet in our solar system to rotate clockwise on its axis?
Venus
Einstein's first job out of college.
What is a patent clerk?
This branch studies subatomic particles, their interactions, and fundamental forces.
What is physical chemistry?
This profesor plays the guitar
Who is Dr. Alexandre B. Sousa
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?
In “Star Wars,” who built C-3P0?
Anakin Skywalker
The experiment that said that spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized. This was a silver lining for some people.
What is the Stern-Gerlach experiment?
This field uses physics principles to solve economic problems.
What is econophysics?
This cracked physicist works on various topics in theoretical particle physics, string theory, general relativity, and cosmology.
Who is Dr. Philip Argyres
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for "theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology".
Who is James Peebles?
What is the only U.S. state that can be typed in using only one row of a standard “QWERTY” keyboard?
Alaska