Famous Experiments
Nobel Famous
Units and Constants
Physics Gone Wrong
Know That Formula
100
An experiment where Galileo dropped balls of "unequal weights of the same material" from a famous tower.
What was Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment?
100
This scientist won the Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
The unit of Work
What is:
Joules
N*m
("kg"*m^2)/s^2
100
Occurred in 1986 during a blackout simulation, components ruptured and losing coolant, resulting in steam explosions and meltdown.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
100
E^2=P^2C^2+M^2C^4
What is the energy–momentum relation?
200
The location where Ernest Lawrence invented his "proton merry-go-round" or cyclotron.
What is University of California, Berkeley?
200
Won a Nobel prize in 1965 for the development of quantum electrodynamics and known for his love of playing the bongo drums
Who is Richard Feynman?
200
6.6743×10^(−11) m^3⋅kg^(−1)⋅s^(−2)
What is Newton's Gravitational constant?
200
Broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members 46,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster?
200
1/sqrt(mu_0ε_0
What is C?
300
An observational test of general relativity organised by the British astronomers Frank Watson Dyson and Arthur Stanley Eddington in 1919 during an astronomical phenomenon.
What was the Eddington experiment?
Note: Solar Eclipse is also an acceptable answer
300
Won the Nobel prize for the creation of Quantum mechanics. Specially the creation of matrix mechanics.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
300
The probability that a needle will lie across a line between two strips on a floor made of parallel strips, each the same width, after being dropped.
What is pi ?
300
This early nuclear accident occurred when a physicist accidently dropped a brick onto a plutonium core.
What was the Demon Core incident?
300
A^†=A
What is the definition of self-adjoint? What is a hermitian operator?
400
What is Fermi National Accelerator?
400
This new method to produce single-layer graphene through common household items was awarded a Nobel prize.
What is the Scotch tape technique?
400
Unit of time for ℏ = c = 1
What is "Energy"^-1 ?
400
The particle physicist, Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, was able to live with non-fatal injuries post this radiation accident.
What is a proton beam accident?
400
What is a kinematic formula?
500
An experiment that uses an ultra-sensitive detector made of 7 tonnes of liquid xenon to hunt for signals of WIMP-nucleus interactions. It is one of three such experiments that lead the search for direct detection of WIMPs above 10 GeV/c2, the other two being the XENON experiment and the PANDAX-4T experiment.
What is the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment?
500
She, along with her husband, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of induced radioactivity.
Who is Irène Joliot-Curie?
500
Barn, Outhouse, and Shed.
What is a unit for cross sections?
500
In 2011, this European experiment reported that muon neutrinos sent from CERN to Gran Sasso appeared to arrive about 60 nanoseconds earlier than light would over the same baseline, seemingly violating special relativity.
What is the OPERA superluminal neutrino anomaly?
500
What are Pauli matrices?