Classical Mechanics
What is Newtons Seconds Law?
F=ma or F=(d/dt)P
What is the sign of the charge on an electron?
Negative
This famous experiment can be used to show wave-particle duality.
The double slit experiment
What former planet was downgraded from planet status in 2006?
Pluto
This Greek mathematician and physicist formulated the law of the lever and the principle of buoyancy.
Archimedes
Momentum
In E&M, what field/s are NOT conservative?
Magnetic Feilds
In particular, the more precisely one measurable quantity is known, the less precisely its conjugate quantity can be known. A common example is position and momentum...
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
What planet in our solar system is the closest to the sun?
Mercury
What Cal-Tech Professor later had his introductory physics lectures turned into the famous Red Books.
Richard Feynman
In which setting does Newtonian Mechanics not work as expected?
Non-Inertial Reference Frames
What term is used to describe the intrinsic angular momentum carried by quantum particles?
This observation provides evidence that the universe is expanding.
The redshift of distant galaxies
What was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering in 1921?
The Photoelectric effect
If Superman slides a uniform block of mass 1 kg across a frictionless surface at 1,000 km/h, what is the kinetic energy of the block? (Calculators are permitted for this question)
3.86 x 10^4 J
A wire has a charge of 10q that flows across its length every 2 seconds. What is the current of the wire?
5 c/s
What are the possible measurements of a spin-1 system?
-hbar,0,hbar
Earth’s seasons are primarily caused by what physical effect?
The tilt of Earths axis
This scientist discovered the electron in 1897 using cathode ray experiments
J. J. Thomson
Dr. Larson is standing on the roof of Rita 10m, and he wants to throw a ball to one of his students in Rivers Green 50m away. If he throws the ball at pi/4 from the horizontal and uses his magic to cancel air resistance, what speed must he throw it at to reach the student? What speed is the ball traveling when it reaches the student? (Assume the student is lying flat on his/her back when the ball is caught) (Calculators are permitted for this question)
Dr Larson throw: 20.2 m/s
Final Speed: 24.6 m/s
A uniform sphere of radius a has a charge density of Rho=ka. What is the electric field inside and outside the sphere?
Inside Sphere: kar/3(epsilon_0) r-hat
Outside Sphere: k(a^4)/3(epsilon_0)(r^2) r-hat
A quantum observable in some basis is given by the matrix A=[2 1; 1 2]. What is the normalized wavefunction (written as a superposition of the eigenstates of this operator)?
Psi=1/sqrt(2)[(1;1) + (1;-1)]
This apparent motion of planets occurs when Earth passes them in its orbit
Retrograde Motion
What 19th-century physicist demonstrated that light is an electromagnetic wave by producing radio waves in the laboratory? Hint: There is a unit named after him.
Heinrich Hertz