Physics Concepts
Came up with the three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The leading explanation for how the universe began.
What is the Big Bang?
A true explosion of a star.
What is a supernova?
What is the hottest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
The size of the universe (Within 5 billion light years).
What is 46 billion light years?
These are the four fundamental forces of Nature.
What is Gravitational force, Electromagnetism, Strong nuclear force, and Weak nuclear force?
The theory that every massive object distorts the fabric of time and space.
What is general relativity?
Name 3 of the 4 main categories of stars
What are main sequence, super giants, white dwarfs, and red giants?
Name the four terrestrial planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?
This person disproved Newton's conception of gravity. Instead, he/she believed that the fabric of time and space was altered by the mass of different objects.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This is the value that can be found from the area under a velocity-time graph.
What is displacement (distance)?
According to this theory, as strings vibrate, twist and fold, they produce effects in many, tiny dimensions that humans interpret as everything from particle physics to large-scale phenomena like gravity.
What is String Theory?
The brightness of a star, corrected for distance.
What is absolute magnitude?
Name the three galaxy shapes.
What is Elliptical, spiral, and irregular?
This experiment disproved Thompson's pudding theory on the makeup of atoms and subatomic particles. It involved gold foil and alpha/beta particles.
What is the Rutherford experiment?
Since momentum has both magnitude and direction it can be classified as this.
What is a vector?
The theoretical basis of modern physics that explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level.
What is quantum theory?
The brightness of a star as seen in the night sky
What is apparent magnitude?
This stellar object is at the center of our galaxy.
What is a black hole?
When clouds of dust start out cold and gravity starts to compress them this nursery for a star is called a … (Hint: no birth yet)
What is a nebula?
These elementary particles make up a proton.
What is two up quarks and one down quark?
According to this theory, as strings vibrate, twist and fold, they produce effects in many, tiny dimensions that humans interpret as everything from particle physics to large-scale phenomena like gravity.
What is The Fermi Paradox?
A graph containing the brightness and temperature of a star.
What is a H-R diagram?
What galaxy is on course to collide with the milky way and how long until the collision occurs.
What is Andromeda in about 4 billion years?
This astronomical finding helped prove Einstein's theory of general relativity because it showed one galaxy being repeated around a central point due to the curve in the space/time fabric of the universe. One beam of light shines through this point and is distorted by the bend in the fabric of the universe; this is called gravitational lensing. **Hint: smiley face in the sky :)
What is Einstein's cross?