The order of magnitude of the constant epsilon naught.
What is 10^−12 Farads/meter?
100
This group of students was recently singled out in a UMass policy and denied acceptance to certain programs in nuclear and energy engineering.
Who are Iranian graduate applicants?
100
The first animal in space
Who is Laika?
100
The title of Sir Isaac Newton's publication that created the foundation for classical mechanics.
What is Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Principia)?
100
This note on the musical scale has a frequency of 440 Hz.
What is A?
200
1/lambda = R(1/n1^2 + 1/n2^2)
What is the Rydberg Equation?
200
The first name of the donor for whom the Isenberg School of Business is named.
Who is Eugene?
200
The date the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is August 2, 1776?
200
This man formed the foundation for a theory that described one of two possible ways in which a collection of non-interacting indistinguishable particles may occupy a set of available discrete energy states, at thermodynamic equilibrium.
Who is Satyendra Nath Bose?
200
The original group of philosophers who dared to ask the age old question, "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"
Who is Queen?
300
1.3806488(13)×10^−23
What is the Boltzmann constant?
300
This is the former name of the U-Pub.
What is the Graduate Student Lounge?
300
This disease was responsible for 50 to 100 million deaths during World War 1, or 3-5% of the world's population.
What is the 1918 influenza outbreak, or the Spanish flu?
300
The recipient of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
Who is Marie Curie?
300
The Balkan word Czar which designated the pre-WW1 leaders of Russia, Bulgaria, and Serbia descended from this title derived from the hereditary name of a former leader.
What is Caesar?
400
(I*mu_0)/ and (lambda)/
(2*pi*r) (2*pi*z*epsilon_0)
What are the magnetic and electric fields of an infinite wire in the z direction?
400
This building was named after the land grant that provided for the creation of the University of Massachusetts as well as many other state universities.
Morrill?
400
This Mexican emporer had an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg in 1836.
Who is Santa Anna?
400
The scientist who developed a theory of the Luminiferous Ether for the propagation of light.
Who is Hendrick Lorentz?
400
"Live free or die," New Hampshire's state motto, was adopted this year.
What is 1945?
500
Every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law.
What is Noether's (first) theorem?
500
This was the original tuition for attendance at the Massachusetts Agricultural College (UMass' predecessor).
What is $36?
500
This property was promised to freed African American slaves in General Sherman's Special Field order No. 15 issued on Jan. 16, 1865 by confiscating certain southern territories and redistributing them.
What is 40 acres (and a mule)?
500
This physicist's friends at Cambridge jokingly named a unit after him, meaning one word per hour.
Who is Paul Dirac?
500
"A brief outline of the development of the theory of relativity."
What is the title of Einstein's first Nature paper?