Pop Culture x STEM
In Spider-Man, Peter Parker’s web shooters spray a sticky material. What kind of scientist would design something like that?
What is a chemist?
Engineers use computers to draw blueprints with a program called CAD. What does CAD stand for?
What is Computer-Aided Design?
The term radioactivity was coined by?
Who is Marie Curie?
This equation describes the relationship between the sides of a right angled triangle.
What is the Pythagoras theorem?
This field focused on the study of life itself.
What is Biology?
In Wall-E, the little robot collects trash and charges his battery from sunlight. What kind of renewable energy is he using?
What is solar energy?
In biology, a common lab technique of DNA amplification is to conduct PCR. What does PCR stand for?
What is Polymerase Chain Reaction?
Who was the world’s first computer programmer?
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This formula lets you solve for x in a second-degree polynomial.
What is the quadratic equation?
This field focuses on the structure and identification of the things that make up all matter.
What is chemistry?
In Fast & Furious, cars go faster when they use nitrous oxide (NOS). What does NOS help the engine get more of?
What is oxygen?
Doctors use an MRI machine to look inside your body. What does MRI stand for?
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
Who discovered the DNA double helix structure?
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This equation is the mathematical representation of Newton’s Second Law of motion.
What is F = ma?
This is the study of humanity from part to present.
Anthropology
In Black Panther, the metal called vibranium can store energy from hits. What kind of energy does it store?
What is kinetic energy?
Wi-Fi helps us connect to the internet without wires. What does the “Fi” in Wi-Fi stand for?
What is Fidelity?
Compilers make programming more accessible by allowing it to be written in English-like code. Who created the first compiler?
Who is Grace Hopper?
This famous equation shows that mass and energy are interchangeable
Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence (or E = mc^2)
A specific medical field that studies diseases.
What is pathology?
In Iron Man, Tony Stark builds a glowing power source in his chest. What kind of energy does it give him?
What is electrical energy?
EGL and HGL are popular terms & visuals in Fluid Mechanics referring to the elevation, pressure, and velocity head. What does each stand for?
Energy Grade Line, Hydraulic Grade Line
What was chemist Dr. Valerie Shears Ashby research concentrations before stepping into administration roles?
Synthetic polymer chemistry, with biomedical applications such as X-ray contrast agents and drug delivery materials
The Taylor series is used to derive this relationship between exponential and trigonometric functions
What is Euler’s formula?
If you're studying the nature and behaviour of bees, you're delving into this specific field.
What is apiology?