Physics History
The 1921 Physics Nobel Prize was given to Einstein for the explanation of this phenomena.
What is the photoelectric effect?
This substance in your leftovers absorbs microwaves, causing it to heat up.
What is water? (or a polar molecule)
In December of 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Lab announced this exciting feat in nuclear science research.
What is a controlled fusion reaction that resulted in a net production of energy?
Pluto was officially diagnosed not a planet in this year.
What is 2006?
If the position in meters of a particle is given by
x = 3sin(27t) + 8cos(3t)
The acceleration of this particle at t=0 s is this value.
What is -72 (m/s^2)
UCSB Materials and Engineering Professor Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for this discovery.
What is the invention of blue LEDs?
This happens to the wavelength of light emitted by a body moving away from you.
What is the wavelength gets longer (red shift)?
In 2015, direct observation of gravitational waves was made with this detector.
What is the LIGO gravitational wave detector?
This term is used to describe the second derivative of acceleration.
What is snap?
The given integral: ∫x exp(-cx2)dx over all space
evaluates to this value.
What is 0?
This person proved a theorem that states that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system with conservative forces has a corresponding conservation law.
Who is Emmy Noether?
A volume of gas expands against a vacuum to reach twice its original volume. The work done to expand this gas is given by this expression.
What is 0 work is done?
This martian rover operated for 15 years, finally stopping transmission in 2018 after a dust storm.
What is the Opportunity?
This state of matter can flow frictionlessly.
What is a superfluid?
If the mass of a small-angle pendulum decreases by 50%, and the length of a pendulum increases by 400%, the period of the pendulum changes by this amount.
What is the period doubles?
Which scientist in the history of UCSB had the highest h-index?
Who is Alan Heeger?
Newton's second law, F=ma, is modified in this way when considering special relativity.
F=dp/dt, and p=𝞬mv
What is F = 𝞬ma + (d𝞬/dt)mv ?
In 2004, this household tool was initially used to exfoliate single-layer graphene.
What is scotch tape?
The acronym "LASER" stands for this phrase.
What is "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"?
This is the limit of precisely knowing a particle's position, theoretically.
What is ℏ/(Δp) ?
This Italian physicist, who worked on neutrino masses, disappeared mysteriously after purchasing a ferry ticket from Palermo to Napes.
Who is Ettore Majorana?
This phenomenon describes when a particle interacts with an electromagnetic potential, even when there is no field locally present.
What is the Aharanov-Bohm Effect?
The James Webb Space Telescope is here. (Be specific!)
What is an Earth-Sun Lagrange point? (The second earth-sun Lagrange point.)
This small Swedish village has accounted for the discovery of four elements.
What is Ytterby?
This is the solution to the heat equation.
u_t = k u_xx
What is u = X(x)T(t)
X(x) = Acos(mt) + Bsin(mt)
T(t) = Ce^(-m^2t/k)