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This quiz has been taken 1,974 times
The average score is 15 of 26

Answer Stats

Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
E	German physicist known for E=mc²	Einstein	96%
A	Was first 'split' in 1917	Atom	94%
J	Largest planet in our solar system	Jupiter	93%
K	Absolute unit of temperature	Kelvin	92%
V	Earth sized planet in our solar system	Venus	87%
N	Neutral sub-atomic particle found in the nucleus	Neutron	86%
H	Space telescope launched in 1990	Hubble	83%
P	One of the four fundamental states of matter	Plasma	78%
X	Type of electromagnetic radiation	X-Ray	77%
I	Variant of the same element with a different number of nucleons	Isotope	74%
Q	Fundamental particle with six 'flavours'	Quark	73%
T	Rotational force	Torque	60%
O	Branch of physics describing the interaction of light	Optics	59%
B	Particles with integer spin	Boson	51%
L	Elementary particles such as electrons and muons	Lepton	48%
M	Scottish scientist known for his equations of electromagnetism	Maxwell	44%
D	Phenomena when a wave encounters a slit	Diffraction	43%
U	Principle asserting a limit to the precision a certain pair of properties can be known	Uncertainty Principle	42%
S	Austrian Physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1933 for the formulation of the equation that governs the wave function of a quantum mechanical system	Schrödinger	39%
C	Ability of a system to store charge	Capacitance	37%
G	Law defining the electric flux, named after a German mathematician and physicist	Gauss's Law	36%
Y	Scientist known for his double slit experiment	Young	35%
F	Method to represent a function as a sum of sine waves	Fourier Series	33%
R	When electromagnetic radiation is increased in wavelength	Redshift	29%
W	Minimum energy needed to 'free' an electron from a surface	Work Function	18%
Z	Effect of splitting spectral lines with the presence of a magnetic field, named after a dutch physicist	Zeeman Effect	13%