Mechanics
Velocity is the instantaneous slope of an acceleration curve, or its ________.
What is a derivative?
Two charges with +10 C of charge each are next to each other. They experience this kind of force.
What is a repulsive force?
Young's _________ experiment shows us that light can behave as a wave or particle.
What is double-slit?
This person formulated three laws of motion that describe classical mechanics.
Who was Isaac Newton?
Magnetic fields always have zero ________, according to Maxwell's equations.
What is divergence?
This kind of motion is when an object flies through the air.
What is projectile motion?
If voltage across a resistor increases, this quantity also increases.
What is current?
This specific theory explains that observers moving at different speeds can experience an event at different times/places.
What is the special theory of relativity?
As the "father of the atomic bomb," he had a recent movie made about his atomic bomb journey.
Who was Julius Robert Oppenheimer?
This fake force is what expels water from a dog when it shakes its body.
What is centrifugal force?
The speed of a wave is its wavelength multiplied by its ________.
What is frequency?
Like gravity, an electrostatic force on an object follows this law.
What is the inverse squared law?
Matter also exhibits properties of waves. The de Broglie wavelength of a neutron is _______ than that of an electron.
What is smaller?
This French physicist co-coined the words "radium" and "radioactivity" but later died, most likely from radiation poisoning.
Who was Marie Curie?
When done to a waveform, this forces the particle's probability of finding it in all space to be 1.
What is normalization?
Harmonic motion often requires translation between kinetic and this kind of potential energy.
What is elastic potential energy?
Electric monopoles exist, but the smallest arrangement of magnetic "charges" that have been found is this.
What is a dipole?
If the uncertainty of an electron's position increases, the uncertainty in this quantity decreases.
What is momentum?
Brownian motion was one of a number of field-changing topics this person wrote about in 1905.
Who was Albert Einstein?
Used for spectroscopy, this reflects light at specific angles, depending on the light's wavelength.
What is a diffraction grating?
If a balanced lever has a 56 g mass 0.25 m from its fulcrum on its left side, it must also have a 70 g mass this distance from its fulcrum on its right side.
What is 0.2 m?
The resistive force on a magnet moving through a metal tube is explained by this law.
What is Lenz's law?
The angular position of an electron in a hydrogen atom is described by _______ harmonics.
What is spherical?
This English physicist is responsible for formulating the laws of electrolysis.
Who was Michael Faraday?
This packing structure is as closely packed as a face-centered cubic structure in a crystal.
What is hexagonal close packing?