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Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
His three laws of motion represent the foundation upon which all of classical mechanics is built.
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Who is Professor Sokrates Pantalides?
He studies nanoscience and nanotechnology (although his name makes you think of philosophy), and recently contributed to a project wherein atomically-precise, origami-like folded graphene nanostructures were constructed at unprecedented small scales.
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What is 5 m?
The amplitude of an ideal simple harmonic oscillator with mass 3.6 kg and spring coefficient 4.5 N/m released from rest at a distance of 5 m away from its equilibrium point.
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What is Newton's Second Law?
F = m * a
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What is Dark Matter?
This is thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe.
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Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
The physicist for whom the equations of classical electrodynamics are named, despite the fact that he really only just put the finishing touches on one of the four.
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What is ACCRE?
This Vanderbilt computing center is the host of a Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Tier 2 Center, storing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle collision data and acting as the primary computational and data storage resource for the Heavy Ion Program at the CMS.
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What is 13.6 m/s?
Given a projectile of mass 3.3 kg is launched from ground level at 13.6 m/s at an angle of 47 degrees above the horizontal, this is the magnitude of its velocity when it hits the ground
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What is Gauss's Law?
Φ_E = Q/(ε_0)
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What is Hydrogen?
The most abundant element in the universe.
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Who is Richard Feynman?
A physicist famous for both his pioneering work in electrodynamical quantum field theory and his introductory physics lectures.
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Who is Professor Alfredo Gurrola?
He's a particle physicist who won a prestigious NSF CAREER grant to study dark matter particles and their interactions at the Large Hadron Collider.
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What is 0 V/M?
The electric flux through a twice-twisted torus containing no electric charge and embedded in a 10^6 T magnetic field.
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What is Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
Δx * Δp >= h/(4*pi)
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What is Photoelectric Effect?
Albert Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on this.
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Who is Emmy Noether?
The discoverer of the fundamental idea that symmetries and conservation laws in physics are inextricably linked.
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Who is Professor Joseph Hamilton?
He was one of the primary physicists responsible for the discovery—and naming—of the element Tennessine, and he shares the last name of another famous physicist from history.
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What is 0 J?
How much is work is done by a particle traveling along the trajectory (sin(t), sin(2t), sin(3t)) in an electric field given by (-e^(-x), -2/y^2 z, -2/y^2 z - 1/z^2) from t = 0 to t = 6 * pi?
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What is Schrodinger Equation?
H Ψ = E Ψ
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What is Special Relativity?
A scientific theory that postulates that the speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers.
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Who is Neils Bohr?
A renowned physicist who produced an important initial model for the atom, but also incorrectly opposed Einstein's quantized light, Dirac's relativistic electron theory, Pauli's proposed neutrino, Yukawa's mesons, and Feynman's QED.
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Who is Professor John Wixwo?
He's a prominent biological physicist whose achievements include conducting the first measurement of the magnetic field of an action potential coming from an isolated nerve. He's also a Principal Investigator for SYBBURE.
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What is 1?
The integral of sin(17x) * e^(13x^2) * delta(x) dx from -infinity to infinity (delta being the dirac delta function).
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What is Drake Equation?
N = R_* * f_P * n_e * f_l * f_i * f_c * L
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What is The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020?
This was awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy."
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