Question
Answer some questions about physicists who have appeared on currency, for 10 points each.
[10m] Ole Rømer, who appeared on the Danish 50 kroner note, was the first scientist to establish that this quantity is finite by observing the time between eclipses of Io. This quantity was measured with a rotating cogwheel in the Fizeau experiment.
ANSWER: speed of light [or c]
[10e] The Israeli 5 pound note featured this physicist, who described light as a particle of energy h-nu when explaining the photoelectric effect in 1905.
ANSWER: Albert Einstein
[10h] The formulator of this physical principle has appeared on banknotes from their country. This heuristic principle is rigorously explained by noting that the Green’s function for the inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation is “e to the ikr over capital R.”
ANSWER: Huygens (“HOY-gens”) principle [accept Huygens-Fresnel principle] (Christiaan Huygens is on the Dutch 25 guilder note from 1950-1970.)
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