Albert Einstein's Legacy – Exam II Review Topics

  1. People
  2. Max Planck
  3. Albert Einstein
  4. Niels Bohr
  5. Ernst Rutherford
  6. deBroglie
  7. Werner Heisenberg
  8. Erwin Schrodinger
  9. Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac
  10. Joseph John Thomson
  11. Karl Schwarschild
  12. Edwin Hubble
  13. George Gamow
  14. John Wheeler
  15. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
  16. Robert Oppenheimer
  17. Leslie Groves
  18. Paul Tibbets
  19. Edward Teller
  20. Ernest Lawrence
  21. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  22. Harry S. Truman
  23. Leo Szilard
  24. Enrco Fermi
  25. Joseph McCarthy
  26. Richard Feynman
  27. Haakon Chevalier
  28. Stephen Hawking
  29. Roger Penrose
  30. Locations
  31. Copenhagen
  32. HiroshimaAugust 6, 1945. The B-29 Enola Gay, piloted and commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, was launched from Tinian airbase
  33. Nagasaki August 9, 1945, the crew of the American B-29 Superfortress Bockscar, flown by Major Charles W. Sweeney
  34. Trinity Site
  35. Almagordo
  36. Hanford, WA
  37. Oak Ridge, TN
  38. Los Alamos
  39. Okinawa
  40. Iwo Jima
  41. Physics
  42. photoelectric effect
  43. electromagnetic spectrum – gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet, visible, radar, microwaves, FM, TV, shortwave, AM
  44. wavespeed = frequency x wavelength
  45. Hydrogen spectra
  46. Ideas
  47. Principle of Equivalence
  48. Uncertainty Principle
  49. Stefan-Boltzmann radiation law
  50. Oscillators can only vibrate at certain energies – multiples of hf
  51. Bohr's model
  52. Rutherford's Experiment
  53. Compton Effect
  54. Davisson-Germer Experiment
  55. Probabilistic Interpretation
  56. Schrodinger's Cat
  57. Tests of General Relativity
  58. Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
  59. The Manhattan Project
  60. Big Crunch
  61. Some Useful Terms
  62. Newton's Law of Gravity
  63. electromagnetic waves
  64. blackbody radiation
  65. photon
  66. Balmer series
  67. spectra of ionized gases
  68. Zeeman and Stark effects
  69. intrinsic spin
  70. transverse/longitudinal waves
  71. diffraction
  72. superposition
  73. Slit experiments
  74. deBroglie wavelength
  75. wave function
  76. centripetal vs centrigugal
  77. Coriolis force
  78. light cone
  79. geodesics
  80. timelike, spacelike, null lines
  81. non-Euclidean geometry
  82. curvature
  83. parallel transport
  84. perihelion shift
  85. black hole
  86. event horizon
  87. white dwarf
  88. red giant
  89. supergiant
  90. neutron star
  91. binary stars
  92. accretion disk
  93. CMB – Cosmic Background Radiation
  94. Enola Gay
  95. Gadget - Plutonium
  96. Fat Man– Uranium - Hiroshima
  97. Little Boy - Plutonium - Nagasaki
  98. atomic bomb
  99. hydrogen bomb
  100. Possible Topics
  101. What was important about Copenhagen?
  102. How are curvature, acceleration and gravity related?
  103. What were Einstein's roles in quantum mechanics, the atomic bomb efforts, …
  104. What were the events that took place leading to the development of atomic bombs?
  105. What happened in Oppenheimer's life after 1945?
  106. What happens when one approaches a black hole?
  107. Why is it believed that particles behave like waves and waves like particles?
  108. Are black holes really black?

This list of topics is only an aide and is not necessarily inclusive of all important details.