Log 8 q4

  Log 8 q4 

Questions of the Week

1. What are the parts of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together?

2. What type of wave does not require matter to carry energy?

3. What part of a longitudinal wave that has the particles spread apart? 

4. What is the term for how many wavelengths pass a fixed point each second?

5. The bending of a light wave as it moves from one medium into another is called?

Scientist of the Week 

1. I was born on May 11, 1918. 

2. I was an American theoretical physicist, known for my work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.

Daily Questions

1. What is another term for  waves that are constructive because of its reflection wave? 

2. What is the term for when light waves as they pass through an object?

Log 7 q4

 

 Log 7 q4 

Questions of the Week

1. What happens to light as it goes from one medium into another?

2. What color is the most absorbent to light energy?

3. What is the angle of incident?

4. What is the angle of reflection?

5. What happens to waves in constructive interference?

Scientist of the Week 

1. I was born on November 20, 1889.

2. I was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. 

3. I proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

4. I provided evidence that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the Earth, a property that has a law named after me. 

Daily Questions

1. What is the scientific use for the word “normal”? 

2. What color absorbs the most amount of energy?

3. What is the origin of diffraction and what does it mean?

4. What happens to sound when a standing wave is created?

Log 6 q4

 Log 6 q4 

Questions of the Week

1. What is a point on a longitudinal wave where there is a point of low energy?

2. What is a point on a wave where there is no crest or trough?

3. What is the SI unit for frequency?

4. What is the Greek symbol for wavelength?

Scientist of the Week 

1. I was born on March 12, 1824.

2. I was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

3. I coined the term black-body radiation in 1862 along with several different sets of concepts that are named after me.

4. The award for spectroscopy is named after me and my colleague, Robert Bunsen.

Daily Questions

1. What is the word origin for amplitude and what does it mean? 

2. What medium do mechanical waves travel fastest in? 

3. What is the wave speed of sound in water?

4. What orbits the earth in order to collect light waves to create images of the universe?

Log 5 q4

 Log 5 q4 

Questions of the Week

1. What is a crest?

2. What is a trough?

3. What is a mechanical wave?

4. What is a transverse wave?` 

Scientist of the Week 

1. I was born on June 13, 1831.

2. I was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation. 

3. My equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics"[3] where the first one had been realized by Isaac Newton.

4. My publication of "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" in 1865, demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving at the speed of light. 

Daily Questions

1. What do waves do to matter as they pass? 

2. What do waves do from their energy source? 

3. What happens to the position of a raft on a lake as a wave passes energy to it?

4. How do certain snakes sense their prey?

Log 4 q4

 

 Log 4 q4 

Questions of the Week

1. What states that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be changed from one form to another?

2. What is a source of energy that can be replaced as it is used? 

3. What is total energy?

4. What is a source of energy that cannot be replaced as it is used up? 

Scientist of the Week 

1. I was born on November 1, 1880.  

2. During my lifetime I was primarily known for my achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research.

3. Today I am most remembered as the originator of continental drift hypothesis by suggesting in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth. 

Daily Questions

1. What is a downside of using wind energy?

2. What is energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth?

3. Are you solar powered?

Log 3 q4

 Log 3 q4 

Questions of the Week

1. Who/what is big Allice? 

2. What percent of renewable energy is produced in the U.S.?

3. What is the device that is used to generate electricity?

4. Where does most of the energy on the earth mainly come from? 

5. What is an example of inexhaustible energy resources? 

Scientist of the Week 

1. I was born on November 14, 1797. 

2. I was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history.

3. I am best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which presented the idea that the earth was shaped by the same natural processes still in operation today.

4. My scientific contributions included an explanation of climate change, in which shifting boundaries between oceans and continents could be used to explain long-term variations in temperature and rainfall.

5. I gave influential explanations of earthquakes and developed the theory of gradual "backed up-building" of volcanoes.

Daily Questions

1. What type of coal has the highest amount of carbon? 

2. What is a great example of a polycarbonate? 

3. Are fossil fuels renewable? 

4. What key components do all power plants share? 

5. What is created behind a dam when it is built across a river?

Log 2 q4

 Log 2 q4 

Questions of the Week

1. What is the law of conservation of energy?

2. What happens to potential energy as kinetic energy goes up? 

3. What is total energy?

4. Friction causes what energy transformation? 

Scientist of the Week 

1. I was born on April 22, 1904.

2. I was an American theoretical physicist who was professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

3. I was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and I among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project. 

4. I was among those who observed the Trinity test in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945.

Daily Questions

1. What acronym will help you remember the different types of potential energy? 

2. What 2 things do you need to have work occur?

3. What is the word origin for friction? 

4. What can be done to reduce friction?