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Max Planck proposed that energy comes in discrete packets called "quanta" while studying radiation emitted by this type of heated object.
- Black body
- White dwarf
- Red giant
- Blue supergiant
This Austrian physicist's famous thought experiment involves a cat that is simultaneously alive and dead until observed.
- Niels Bohr
- Werner Heisenberg
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Max Born
The dual nature of matter and light, behaving as both particles and these, is a fundamental concept in quantum physics.
- Strings
- Waves
- Fields
- Fluids
Albert Einstein won his Nobel Prize for explaining this effect, where light striking metal causes electrons to be ejected.
- Compton effect
- Doppler effect
- Zeeman effect
- Photoelectric effect
Heisenberg's famous principle states you cannot simultaneously know both the exact position and this property of a particle.
- Mass
- Momentum
- Charge
- Spin
The famous double-slit experiment demonstrates that electrons create an interference pattern, proving they behave like these.
- Particles
- Billiard balls
- Waves
- Bullets
In quantum mechanics, the mathematical function that describes the probability of finding a particle in various locations is named after this physicist.
- Schrödinger
- Heisenberg
- Dirac
- Pauli
The constant h, representing the smallest possible unit of action in physics, was introduced by this German physicist in 1900.
- Einstein
- Bohr
- Planck
- Heisenberg
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