Index : P : Physics

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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information

Physics

• What is quantum physics? ( goto )



• What is plasma physics? ( goto )



• In Quantum physics, what is Kirchoff's Law? ( goto )



• What is the difference between astrophysics and physics? ( goto )



• In particle physics, what are "magic numbers"? ( goto )



• In physics how is the standard second measured? ( goto )



• Is there any difference in physics between stress and pressure? ( goto )



• As opposed to Red Dwarf, what in physics is a "white dwarf"? ( goto )



• What are the "degrees of freedom" when referring to particle physics? ( goto )



• What branch of physics concerns the mechanical properties of gasses? ( goto )



• Which US president is known to have a degree in nuclear physics? ( goto )



• Are there any scientists (preferably in physics) name starting with the alphabet 'Q'? ( goto )



• When speaking of quantum physics what does "quantum" refer to? ( goto )



• In school physics I was given the unlikely word "Chesplonk" as a mnemonic to help remember what? ( goto )



• There is an equation in physics that says E^2 = m"2c^4 + p^2c"2. What does p represent in this equation? ( goto )



• Name the pop diva who teaches semiconductor physics on the internet (shakira, mandy moore, alicia keys, britney spears) ? ( goto )



• The Nobel Prize for which category was implemented by the Central Bank of Sweden to celebrate an occasion: Physics, Medicine, Economics, or Peace? ( goto )



• In 1993, who was awarded a spoof Nobel Prize for physics for advancing the theory that chickens use cold fusion to produce egg shells? ( goto )



• What has the nickname %60god particle%60 and is crucial to standard theories of physics (quark, neutrn, k-meson, higgs boson)? ( goto )



• Which principle in physics states that "we cannot simultaneously know both the position and the momentum of a given object to arbitrary precision?" ( goto )



• Why is the symbol for momentum in physics denoted by p, is it because all other letters are taken or that momentum starts with p in latin or what? ( goto )



• Which pair won a Nobel Prize for physics despite not looking for what they found, not realising what they had found, and not understanding its signifiance when they were told what they had found? ( goto )



• He determined that the beta particle was identical to the electron, but is more famous for his discovery of radiation, found in certain uranium salts.Identify this scientist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Curies. ( goto )



• Applying quantum mechanics and other advanced theories of math and physics, has any scientist as yet been able to "transport" matter from one location to another without movement through physical space? ( goto )



• As I take my pals Baloo and gmack by the hand and show them around my windowless laboratory with its locked doors, I show them a box that may or may not contain a live cat. Ok, you all know what I'm talking about now. Who then, according to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, was the only person able to look inside this box, and what was the theory behind it? ( goto )