History of Physics
Who coined the plum pudding model?
J.J. Thompson
A constant relating mass and energy (c)
The speed of light
What kind of friction does a ball rolling without slipping experience at its contact point?
Static friction
What is the name of our mascot?
Henry
Who is the department chair?
Who is the first person to have won two nobel prizes in their lifetime?
Marie Curie
A constant that decides the quantization of the world (h)
Planck's Constant
What is the lorentz gamma factor for a particle moving at c*sqrt(3)/2
2
Which dining hall was replaced by The Atrium
Brower
Who is the undergraduate lounge named after?
Mohan Satish Kalelkar
Which scientists are the planetary orbits named after?
Keplar
Constant relating the average kinetic energy of some particles to their temperature (k)
What is the electric field inside of a conductor?
Zero
Who runs the Rutgers Faraday Holiday Children's Lecture
Daive Maiullo
The name of that nice chalk
Hagoromo
Which scientist famously opposed the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics: "God doesn't play dice..."
Albert Einstein
A constant that describes how quickly systems approach chaos via period doubling (δ)
Feigenbaum constant
Given N two-state paramagnets, how many possible configurations are there?
2N
What is the only bus that stops at the Henderson Bus Stop
EE
What are the southern lights called (like aurora borealis)
aurora australis
Who were the scientists who tried to prove the existence of a "Luminiferous ether"
Michelson and Morley
Constant relating the peak wavelength emitted by a blackbody to its temperature (b)
Wien's displacement constant
What family of functions are used to represent the spherical harmonics of the hydrogen atom?
Associated Legendre polynomials
Which Rutgers professor is the new Donald H. Jacobs Chair in Applied Physics
Valery Kiryukhin
What is the name of the new CME professor
Shaowen Chen