Laws & Principles
The reference frame under which F=ma is valid.
What is inertial/non-accelerating reference frames?
A developer of calculus and proposed a theory of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
A defining characteristic of light.
What is wave-particle duality?
The unabbreviated version of LIGO.
What is Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory?
Bill Nye.
Who is The Science Guy!?
Newton's Three Laws of Motion.
What are the Law of Inertia, F=ma, and Equal and Opposite Reactions?
Credited for the heliocentric model.
Who is Copernicus?
A consequence of this principle states that both position and momentum cannot be exactly known.
What is Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
Pairs produced that contribute to superconductivity.
What are Cooper Pairs?
The physicist known for playing the bongos.
Who is Richard Feynman?
The law that relates the index of refraction with the angle of refraction.
What is Snell's Law?
The leading branch of physics in the 1700's.
What is mechanics/optics?
Physical interpretation of the wavefunction.
What is a collapse upon observation?
This is the event occurring first according to the current model between inflation and the creation of nucleons.
What is inflation?
The two physicists that have large classes of elementary particles named after them.
Who are Enrico Fermi(fermions) and Salyenda Nath Bose(bosons)?
Define the Principle of Least Action.
What is a principle that states that a quantity called the Action has to be minimized to reveal the possible states of a system?
The first person to define inertia(although he did not specifically call it that).
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Credited with the mathematics of transformations under Special Relativity.
Who is Lorentz?
This is why black holes do not violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
What is the fact that black holes have entropy?
The work that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for.
What is the Photoelectric effect?
The mathematical object represented by g in Einstein's General Relativity Formula.
What is a metric tensor?
One of the founders of atomism.
Who is Democritus?
Name 3 national labs involved in the Manhattan Project.
What are: Los Alamos, Argonne, Oak Ridge, Hanford, Ames, or Lawrence-Berkeley?
This is conserved when two quarks are pulled apart in a meson.
What is color charge?
The allergy that inspired Dr. Story's song "Forbidden Fruit."
The oil on the skin of mangos.