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100

Building the Physics Department is in

What is Gant South?


100

The third planet from the sun

What is Earth?

100
Particle emitted when an electron goes from a higher energy to a lower one

What is a photon?


100

The historical event that enabled the establishment of the metric system

What is the French Revolution?

100

Which Eboard member HATES the beach?

Who is Mike

200

The Head of the Physics Department

Who is George Gibson?


200

The SI base unit for distance?

Upperclassmen must also say the physical constant used to define this unit. 

What is a meter?

What is the speed of light?

200

The smallest distance between two points an imaging system can detect points separately

What is resolution?

200

This astronomical event was used to experimentally prove that gravity bends light

What is a solar eclipse?

200

Which E-board member is a 25H in the US army national guard

Who is Jeff

300

The physics department's academic advisor

Who is Micki Bellamy?


300

The SI prefix for one-quadrillionth

What is "femto-"?

300

Principle that states that you cannot accurately know the momentum and position of an electron at the same time

What is Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle?

300

The year that the Principle of Relativity was discovered

What is 1905?

300

Which 2 E-Board members are from New Jersey (You have to get them both!!)

Who are Matt and Lela

400

The UConn physics alumnus who won the Nobel Prize in 1956

Who is David M. Lee

400

The force that makes a balloon float

What is the bouyant force?

400

For what discovery were Owen Chamberlain and Emilio Segrè awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959?

What are antiprotons?

400

Year the first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded

What is 1901?

400

Which Eboard member REALLY likes Dr. Pepper?

Who is Joe

500
First PhD in Physics from UConn was awarded to this person

Who is Henry Katzenstein?


500

The rate of change of acceleration

What is a jerk?

500

The Four Fundamental Forces

Upperclassmen must answer in order from strongest to weakest

What are the Strong, Electromagnetic, Weak and Gravitational forces?

500

Which branch of physics directly contributed to the development of industrialization?

What is Thermodynamics

500
Which Eboard member's first job was in a hardware store?

Who is Chris?