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Generate physics team names for olympiad and physics bowl squads, lab groups, class projects and study chats, from The Uncertainty Principals and Free Body Diagrams to Velocity Raptors, Team Noether and Assume a Spherical Cow.

About physics team names

A physics team name usually starts with a term from the course and turns it into a group of people: The Uncertainty Principals, Free Body Diagrams, Net Force, Standing Waves. The joke works because everyone on the team has drawn the diagram or fought the equation, so the best choice is a topic your group has actually studied. The names suit olympiad and physics bowl squads, lab sections, project groups, intramural sides and study group chats.

The list moves through the whole subject. Mechanics gives Frictionless Planes, Ideal Pulleys and Torque of the Town. Electricity and magnetism give Ohm Sweet Ohm, Eddy Currents and Lenz's Outlaws. Quantum mechanics gives Spin One Half and h Bar None, relativity and astrophysics give It's All Relative and Dark Matter Matters, and thermodynamics gives Entropy Always Wins. Waves, optics, particle physics and fluids have their own names too.

Other groups of names come from the life around the subject: lab names such as Within Error Bars and Too Many Sig Figs, problem set jokes such as Assume a Spherical Cow and Neglecting Air Resistance, mascot names such as Velocity Raptors and Quark Sharks, and tributes to physicists from history, from Team Noether to Galileo's Ramp. Short one-word names such as Resultant, Parallax and Impulse are there for a competition roster.

How to choose physics team names

  • Pick a topic your team has covered. A first-year mechanics class will get Free Body Diagrams and Ideal Pulleys at once, while The Hamiltonians and Ladder Operators belong to a group that has met quantum mechanics.
  • Say it aloud the way a quiz host will. Hooke Line and Sinker, Watt's Up and Joule Be Sorry only work when the pun is heard, and h Bar None needs someone who reads the symbol as h bar.
  • For a tribute name, have one sentence ready about the work behind it. Noether's Theorem links symmetries to conservation laws, and Leavitt's Law relates the period of a Cepheid variable star to its brightness.
  • Read the contest rules before you print shirts. Many competitions enter teams under the school name and treat a nickname as optional, and a short name such as Resultant or Net Force fits a roster line or a scoreboard best.
  • A class with several lab groups can take a matching set from one topic: Up Quarks, Down Quarks, Top Quarks and Strange and Charmed, or The Volts, The Ohms, The Amperes and The Watts.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good name for a physics team?

A pun on a term the whole team knows tends to win: The Uncertainty Principals, Free Body Diagrams, Net Force, Standing Waves or Dark Matter Matters. Teams that want to sound serious can take a short name such as Resultant or Momentum, or a tribute such as Team Noether.

Do the puns use the physics correctly?

The puns play on the real meaning of a term. Spin One Half is the spin of an electron, Little Neutral Ones is what the word neutrino means, and One Coulomb per Second is an ampere. A few names are approximation jokes and wrong on purpose, such as Pi Equals Three and Round g to Ten. If a name is going on a shirt or a banner, look the term up in your textbook first, because this is an audience that notices a mistake.

Which physicists are honored in the tribute names?

All of them are figures from the history of physics, among them Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Boltzmann, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner and Chien-Shiung Wu. Many of the names point to the work a person is known for, such as Foucault's Pendulum, Millikan's Oil Drop and Chadwick's Neutron.

Do these names work for a lab group or a study group chat?

Yes. Within Error Bars, One More Trial and It Worked in the Simulation are written for lab sections, and Problem Set Survivors, Coffee and Coulombs and Late Night Lagrangians suit a study group or its chat. None of them needs a competition to make sense.

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A: 31 names

  • A Block on an Incline
  • A Force to Be Reckoned With
  • A Ladder Against a Wall
  • A Sled on Frictionless Ice
  • Absolute Zero
  • Accretion Disk
  • Air Track Gliders
  • Alhazen's Optics
  • Alpha Decay
  • Alpha Particles
  • Alternating Currents
  • Amped Up
  • Ampère's Loop
  • An Elevator Accelerates Upward
  • Angle of Incidence
  • Angular Momentum
  • Annihilation Photons
  • Antimatter Matters
  • Apogee
  • Apparatus Malfunction
  • Apparent Weightlessness
  • Archimedes' Lever
  • Archimedes' Principle
  • Arrow of Time
  • Assume a Spherical Cow
  • Assume No Friction
  • Astronomical Units
  • Asymptotic Freedom
  • At Time t Equals Zero
  • Attractive Forces
  • Avogadro Is Not Invited

B: 44 names

  • Back EMF
  • Back of the Envelope
  • Background Count
  • Ball Rolls Off a Table
  • Ballistic Pendulums
  • Band Gap
  • Basement Lab Dwellers
  • Bassi's Lecture Hall
  • Beamline
  • Beat Frequency
  • Becquerel's Plates
  • Bernoulli's Principle
  • Beta Decay
  • Beyond the Horizon
  • Big G
  • Binary Stars
  • Binding Energy
  • Biot and Savart
  • Blackboard Baryons
  • Block Slides Down a Ramp
  • Blown Fuse
  • Bodies at Rest

B, continued

  • Bohr Bears
  • Bohr's Orbit
  • Boiling Point
  • Boltzmann Constant
  • Boltzmann's Brain
  • Born Rule Followers
  • Boson
  • Boson Bison
  • Boson Buddies
  • Both Alive and Winning
  • Boundary Conditions
  • Bragg's Law
  • Breadboard Winners
  • Brewster's Angle
  • Brewster's Kaleidoscope
  • Bright Fringes
  • Brute Force
  • Building Momentum
  • Buoyant Belugas
  • Burnt Out Resistor
  • By Inspection
  • By Symmetry

C: 72 names

  • Caffeine and Kinematics
  • Calculator in Radians Mode
  • Can't Stop, Inertia
  • Canonical Momentum
  • Capillary Action
  • Carnot Coyotes
  • Carnot Cycle Club
  • Carnot Efficiency
  • Carnot's Engine
  • Carnot's Reflections
  • Catch the Wave Function
  • Cavendish's Torsion Balance
  • Center of Mass
  • Central Force
  • Centripetal Force
  • Chadwick's Neutron
  • Chandrasekhar Limit
  • Chandrasekhar's Stars
  • Charge Carriers
  • Charged Up
  • Charging Capacitors
  • Charm Offensive
  • Check Your Units
  • Cherenkov Blue
  • Children of Curie
  • Chladni's Plates
  • Choose Convenient Axes
  • Circuit Cheetahs
  • Clausius' Entropy
  • Close Enough for Physics
  • Closed Timelike Curves
  • Cloud Chamber Tracks
  • Coefficient of Friction
  • Coffee and Coulombs
  • Coherent Light
  • Cold Reservoir

C, continued

  • Collapse the Wave Function
  • Collision Course
  • Color Confinement
  • Complementarity
  • Compression and Rarefaction
  • Concave and Convex
  • Conservation Laws
  • Conservation of Momentum
  • Conservative Forces
  • Conserve Your Energy
  • Conserved Quantities
  • Constant Acceleration
  • Continuous Symmetries
  • Convection Currents
  • Converging Lenses
  • Copenhagen Interpretation
  • Coriolis Force
  • Cosmic Microwave Background
  • Cosmological Constant
  • Coulomb Cobras
  • Coulomb's Balance
  • Coulomb's Finest
  • Counts per Minute
  • Coupled Oscillators
  • Cram Session Capacitors
  • Creation and Annihilation
  • Crest and Trough
  • Critical Angle
  • Critical Point
  • Cross Section
  • Crown Joules
  • Curie Temperature
  • Curiosity and the Cat
  • Curl Your Fingers
  • Current Events
  • Curved Spacetime

D: 35 names

  • Damped and Driven
  • Dark Matter Matters
  • Daughter Nuclei
  • De Broglie Wavelength
  • Decay Chain
  • Decoherence
  • Degrees Not Radians
  • Degrees of Freedom
  • Delta V
  • Department Dynamos
  • Destructive Interference
  • Dimensional Analysis
  • Dimensionless Numbers
  • Dirac
  • Dirac Dragons
  • Dirac Notation
  • Dirac's Sea
  • Dispersion
  • Displacement Current
  • Divergence and Curl
  • Diverging Opinions
  • Do Not Look Into the Laser
  • Don't Be So Negative
  • Donuts and Dynamics
  • Doppler Dolphins
  • Doppler Effect
  • Doppler Shifters
  • Double Pendulum
  • Double Slit
  • Down Is Positive
  • Down Quarks
  • Draw the Diagram First
  • Drift Velocity
  • Driving Force
  • Dry Erase Derivers

E: 34 names

  • Eddy Currents
  • Eigenvalue Added
  • Einstein Rings
  • Einstein's Elevator
  • Elastic Collisions
  • Elastic Limit
  • Electric Field Day
  • Electron Eagles
  • Electron Volts
  • Elementary Charge
  • Elliptical Orbits
  • Emmy's Symmetries
  • Energy Never Dies
  • Enthalpy Enthusiasts
  • Entropy
  • Entropy Always Wins
  • Entropy Elephants
  • Entropy Is Not What It Used to Be
  • EPR Pair
  • Epsilon Naught
  • Equal and Opposite
  • Equilibrium
  • Equipartition
  • Equipotential Lines
  • Error Analysis Section
  • Escape Velocity
  • Euler Lagrange Equations
  • Eureka Moment
  • Everything Is a Harmonic Oscillator
  • Everything Is a Spring
  • Excited States
  • Exclusion Principle
  • Experimentalists United
  • Extra Credit Trial

F: 54 names

  • F Equals ma
  • Factor of Two Pi
  • Falling for Physics
  • Family Joules
  • Faraday Cage
  • Faraday Fireflies
  • Faraday's Candle
  • Faraday's Coil
  • Fermi
  • Fermi Estimators
  • Fermi Finches
  • Fermi Level
  • Fermi's Paradox
  • Fermion Foxes
  • Feynman Diagrams
  • Feynman's Lectures
  • Field of Dreams
  • Field Theory
  • Field Trip
  • Fifty Trials Later
  • Fighting Phonons
  • Finals Week Fusion
  • Fine Structure Constant
  • First Law Firm
  • Five Sigma
  • Flashcard Photons
  • Flux

F, continued

  • Flux Flamingos
  • Focal Length
  • Focal Point
  • Formula Sheet Believers
  • Foucault's Pendulum
  • Four Equations Strong
  • Four Vectors
  • Fourth Hour Forces
  • Fourth State of Matter
  • Frame Dragging
  • Frame of Mind
  • Franklin's Kite
  • Fraunhofer's Lines
  • Free Body Diagrams
  • Free Energy
  • Free Fall
  • Free Response Fighters
  • Fresnel's Lens
  • Friction Frogs
  • Frictionless Planes
  • Friends of Faraday
  • Friends of Fermi
  • From First Principles
  • Front Row Fermions
  • Fulcrum Foxhounds
  • Fully Charged
  • Fundamental Frequency

G: 29 names

  • Galilean Moons
  • Galileo's Pendulum
  • Galileo's Ramp
  • Galileo's Telescope
  • Gamma Emitters
  • Gamma Greater Than One
  • Gauge Bosons
  • Gauge Invariance
  • Gaussian Surfaces
  • Geiger's Counter
  • General Relativists
  • Generalized Coordinates
  • Gigawatt Gang
  • Gluon Glue
  • Goeppert Mayer's Shells
  • Going With the Flux
  • Good Vibrations Only
  • Grad Lounge Gravitons
  • Gradient of the Potential
  • Gravitational Lensing
  • Gravitational Waves
  • Graviton
  • Gravity Assist
  • Gravity Gators
  • Gravity of the Situation
  • Ground State
  • Grounded and Neutral
  • Group Chat Gravity
  • Group Velocity

H: 35 names

  • h Bar None
  • Hadron
  • Hadron Hawks
  • Half-Life
  • Hall Effect
  • Hamilton's Principle
  • Hang Time
  • Harmonic Herons
  • Heat Capacity Crowd
  • Heat Death of the Universe
  • Heat Flows Hot to Cold
  • Heat Pump
  • Heirs of Alhazen
  • Heirs of Archimedes
  • Heirs of Newton
  • Heisenberg's Microscope
  • Hertz's Spark
  • Hidden Variables
  • High Energy Group
  • High Voltage Club
  • Homework Hadrons
  • Honors Physics Heroes
  • Hooke Line and Sinker
  • Hooke's Law Enforcement
  • Hooke's Springs
  • House of Huygens
  • House of Kepler
  • Hubble Constant
  • Hubble's Heirs
  • Hubble's Law
  • Human Error, Probably
  • Huygens Wavelets
  • Huygens' Clock
  • Huygens' Principle
  • Hysteresis Loop

I: 30 names

  • I Hat, J Hat, K Hat
  • Ideal Batteries
  • Ideal Gas Law Abiders
  • Ideal Pulleys
  • Ideal Springs
  • Ignore Fringing Fields
  • Impulse
  • In a Superposition of Winning
  • In Phase
  • In the Limit of Large N
  • Increasing Entropy
  • Index of Refraction
  • Indistinguishable
  • Inertia
  • Inertia Iguanas
  • Inertia Made Us Do It
  • Inextensible Strings
  • Infinite Plane of Charge
  • Infinite Square Well
  • Infinitely Long Wire
  • Infrared and Proud
  • Initial Conditions
  • Insulators Anonymous
  • Interference Pattern
  • Intramural Inertia
  • Inverse Square Law
  • Isotherm
  • It Worked in the Simulation
  • It Worked Yesterday
  • It's All Relative

J: 8 names

  • Jerk Is the Third Derivative
  • Joule Be Sorry
  • Joule Jaguars
  • Joule Never Walk Alone
  • Joule Thieves
  • Joule's Paddle Wheel
  • Journal Club Geodesics
  • Just Calculate

K: 11 names

  • Keeping Our Potential High
  • Kelvin Kangaroos
  • Kelvin Scale
  • Kepler Kingfishers
  • Kepler's Ellipses
  • Kepler's Laws
  • Kepler's Third Law
  • Kilowatt Hours
  • Kinetic Friction Addiction
  • Kinetic Kestrels
  • Kirchhoff's Junction

L: 53 names

  • Lab Bench Three
  • Lab Report Due Friday
  • Label Your Axes
  • Ladder Operators
  • Lagrange Points
  • Laminar Flow
  • Landau Levels
  • Landau's Students
  • Laplace's Demon
  • Laser Lynx
  • Laser Safety Goggles
  • Late Night Lagrangians
  • Latent Heat
  • Launch Angle Forty Five
  • Laws Were Obeyed
  • Least Action
  • Leavitt's Law
  • Leavitt's Variables
  • Left as an Exercise
  • Left Hand Rule Breakers
  • Lemaître's Primeval Atom
  • Length Contraction
  • Lens Tissue and Coffee
  • Lenz's Outlaws
  • Lepton
  • Lepton Leopards

L, continued

  • Level the Air Track
  • Levitating Magnets
  • Lift and Drag
  • Light Inextensible Rope
  • Light Work
  • Lightning Round Leptons
  • Lightspeed Ahead
  • Like Charges Repel
  • Liquid Drop Model
  • Liquid Helium Level
  • Liquid Nitrogen
  • Little g
  • Little Neutral Ones
  • Live Wires
  • Living Up to Our Potential
  • Lock In Amplifier
  • Log Log Plot
  • Longitudinal Waves
  • Loop Rule Rulers
  • Loose Connection
  • Lorentz
  • Lorentz Factor
  • Lorentz Force
  • Lost a Factor of Two
  • Lost in Spacetime
  • Lumen Lions
  • Luminosity

M: 50 names

  • Macrostate of Mind
  • Magic Numbers
  • Magnet Magpies
  • Magnetic Confinement
  • Magnetic Domains
  • Magnetic Moment
  • Magnetic Personalities
  • Main Sequence
  • Making Waves
  • Malus's Law
  • Mass Appeal
  • Mass Defect
  • Mass Energy Equivalence
  • Mass Hysteresis
  • Massless and Frictionless
  • Massless Pulley Club
  • Massless Ropes
  • Matter of Fact
  • Matter Over Mind
  • Matter Waves
  • Maxwell's Demons
  • Maxwell's Equations
  • Maxwell's Rainbow
  • May the Mass Times Acceleration Be With You
  • May the Net Force Be With You

M, continued

  • Mean Free Path
  • Mean Lifetime
  • Mechanics Mondays
  • Meissner Effect
  • Meter Stick Wielders
  • Meters per Second Squared
  • Metric Tensor
  • Michelson and Morley
  • Michelson's Interferometer
  • Microgravity Club
  • Midnight Oscillators
  • Midterm Momentum
  • Mighty Mesons
  • Millikan's Oil Drop
  • Minkowski's Spacetime
  • Minus Sign Hunters
  • Modern Physics Mob
  • Moment of Inertia
  • Momentum
  • Momentum Is on Our Side
  • Momentum Mustangs
  • Moving Clocks Run Slow
  • Mu Naught
  • Muon g Minus Two
  • Muon Moose

N: 34 names

  • N Body Simulation
  • Natural Units
  • Navier and Stokes
  • Neglecting Air Resistance
  • Net Force
  • Neutrino
  • Neutrino Narwhals
  • Neutrino Oscillations
  • Newton
  • Newton Meters
  • Newton Nighthawks
  • Newton's Apprentices
  • Newton's Bucket
  • Newton's Cradle
  • Newton's Prism
  • Newton's Rings
  • Nine Point Eight
  • No Free Lunch
  • No Hidden Variables
  • No Laws Were Broken
  • No Luminiferous Ether
  • No Matter What
  • Nodes and Antinodes
  • Noether Nightingales
  • Noether's Currents
  • Noether's Theorem
  • Noise Floor
  • Normal Force
  • Normal Modes
  • North and South Poles
  • Nothing Faster Than c
  • Nucleon Nation
  • Null Result
  • Null Result, Still Proud

O: 28 names

  • Objects in Motion
  • Observable Universe
  • Observer Effect
  • Oersted's Compass
  • Off by a Factor of Ten
  • Office Hours Oscillators
  • Ohm Alone
  • Ohm My Goodness
  • Ohm on the Range
  • Ohm Sweet Ohm
  • Olympiad Bound
  • On the Same Wavelength
  • One Atmosphere
  • One Coulomb per Second
  • One More Trial
  • One Over One Thirty Seven
  • One Page of Notes Allowed
  • Onnes and the Cold
  • Open Pipes
  • Opposites Attract
  • Optical Bench
  • Orbit Otters
  • Orbital Resonance
  • Order of Magnitude
  • Order of the Pendulum
  • Out of Calibration
  • Out of Phase
  • Outlier Rejected

P: 78 names

  • Pair Production
  • Parallax
  • Parallel Plates
  • Parity Violation
  • Parsec
  • Parsec Patrol
  • Particle in a Box
  • Partition Function
  • Pascal's Barrel
  • Pascal's Principle
  • Path of Least Resistance
  • Pauli's Principle
  • Payne's Hydrogen
  • Pendulum Peregrines
  • Perfectly Inelastic
  • Perfectly Rigid Rod
  • Perihelion
  • Perihelion of Mercury
  • Period of the Pendulum
  • Perpetual Motion Is a Myth
  • Perpetual Motion Skeptics
  • Perturbation Theory
  • Phase Shifters
  • Phase Space
  • Phase Velocity
  • Phonon
  • Phonon Phone Home
  • Photoelectric Effect
  • Photon
  • Photon Falcons
  • Phun With Physics
  • Physics After Lunch
  • Physics Bowl Bound
  • Physics Majors Anonymous
  • Physics Olympians
  • Physics Phriends
  • Pi Equals Three
  • Picosecond Posse
  • Pion Pioneers

P, continued

  • Pitch Perfect Frequency
  • Pizza and Projectiles
  • Planck
  • Planck Length
  • Planck Piranhas
  • Planck Time
  • Planck's Constant
  • Planck's Quanta
  • Plasma
  • Plasma Physics
  • Plasma Pythons
  • Plug and Chug
  • Plus or Minus One Sigma
  • Point Mass Mentality
  • Point of No Return
  • Poisson's Spot
  • Polarized
  • Population Inversion
  • Positively Charged
  • Positron Pumas
  • Potential Difference
  • Power Hour
  • Powers of Ten
  • Precession Procession
  • Pressure Cooker Crew
  • Prism Penguins
  • Probability Amplitude
  • Problem Set Seven
  • Problem Set Survivors
  • Projectile Motion
  • Propagation of Uncertainty
  • Proper Time
  • Proton Panthers
  • Protons and Neutrons
  • Pulley Puffins
  • Pulling Our Own Weight
  • Pulsar
  • Pulsar Pandas
  • PV Equals nRT

Q: 7 names

  • Quantized
  • Quantum
  • Quantum Jumpers
  • Quantum Tunneling
  • Quark Sharks
  • Quasar Quails
  • Quiz Round Quanta

R: 37 names

  • Radiant Ravens
  • Raise and Lower Indices
  • Raise the h Bar
  • Range Equation
  • Rayleigh Scattering
  • Rayleigh's Criterion
  • RC Time Constant
  • Reaction Time Error
  • Real and Inverted
  • Recalibrating
  • Recovering Engineers
  • Red Giants
  • Red Shift
  • Reduced Mass
  • Regional Resonance
  • Relatively Fast
  • Relatively Speaking
  • Renormalization Group
  • Resonance
  • Resonance Rhinos
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Rest Mass
  • Restoring Force
  • Resultant
  • Reversible Processes
  • Reynolds Number
  • Right Hand Rule
  • Ripple Tank
  • Ripples in Spacetime
  • RLC Resonance
  • Roche Limit
  • Rolling Without Slipping
  • Röntgen's Rays
  • Root Mean Square
  • Round g to Ten
  • ROY G BIV
  • Rutherford Scattering

S: 74 names

  • S Equals k Log W
  • Schrödinger's Catnap
  • Schwarzschild Radius
  • Scintillators
  • Second Period Physics
  • Selection Rules
  • Sensitive to Initial Conditions
  • Series and Parallel
  • Seven Base Units
  • Shell Model
  • Shock Wave
  • Shortest Path Through Spacetime
  • Show Your Work
  • SI Units
  • Sign Convention Crisis
  • Significant Figures
  • Simple Harmonic Motion
  • Simultaneity Is Relative
  • Sine Theta Equals Theta
  • Single Slit
  • Sink or Float
  • Six Flavors
  • Slingshot Maneuver
  • Small Angle Approximation
  • Small Oscillations
  • Snacks and Statics
  • Solar Wind
  • Sonic Stingrays
  • Sorry, Aristotle
  • Sources of Error
  • Spacetime Continuum
  • Spark Gap
  • Special Relativity
  • Specific Heat
  • Speed Has No Direction
  • Speed of Light in Vacuum
  • Speed of Light Limit

S, continued

  • Speed of Light Snacks
  • Speed of Sound
  • Spherical Cows in a Vacuum
  • Spin One Half
  • Spin Up, Spin Down
  • Spontaneous Emission
  • Spring Constant
  • Standard Candles
  • Standing on a Scale in an Elevator
  • Standing Waves
  • Starts From Rest
  • State Finals Standing Waves
  • State of Matter
  • Static Cling
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Staying Positive Like a Proton
  • Steady State
  • Stefan Boltzmann Law
  • Stellar Nucleosynthesis
  • Step Up Transformers
  • Stern and Gerlach
  • Stimulated Emission
  • Stopwatch Reflexes
  • Strange and Charmed
  • Stress and Strain
  • Strong Force
  • Students of Bohr
  • Study Hall Solenoids
  • Sublimation Station
  • Sum of the Forces
  • Sum Over Histories
  • Sum the Torques
  • Superposition
  • Superposition Principle
  • Surface Tension
  • Symmetry Breaking
  • Systematic Errors

T: 191 names

  • Table Four Torque
  • Take Another Reading
  • Taylor Expand Everything
  • Tea and Tensors
  • Team Bassi
  • Team Boltzmann
  • Team Chandrasekhar
  • Team du Châtelet
  • Team Faraday
  • Team Feynman
  • Team Galileo
  • Team Maxwell
  • Team Meitner
  • Team Noether
  • Tension in the Rope
  • Tension Seekers
  • Tensor
  • Tensor Tigers
  • Terminal Velocity
  • Tesla Terriers
  • Tesla's Coils
  • The Adiabats
  • The Ammeters
  • The Amperes
  • The Aristotelians, Corrected
  • The Atwood Machines
  • The Back Row Bosons
  • The Banked Curves
  • The Baryons
  • The Beats
  • The Becquerels
  • The Brownian Motion
  • The Bubble Chambers
  • The Buzzer Bosons
  • The Calorimeters
  • The Cherenkov Glow
  • The Closed Loops
  • The Commutators

T, continued

  • The Copernicans
  • The Coulombs
  • The Cryostats
  • The Crystal Lattices
  • The Cyclotrons
  • The Data Loggers
  • The Decibels
  • The Derivation Station
  • The Dielectrics
  • The Diffraction Gratings
  • The Dipoles
  • The Dirac Society
  • The Eigenstates
  • The Electromagnets
  • The Energy Levels
  • The Ensembles
  • The Entangled Pairs
  • The Equivalence Principle
  • The Event Horizon
  • The Farads
  • The Fermions
  • The Ferromagnets
  • The Field Lines
  • The Flywheels
  • The Fulcrums
  • The Full Spectrum
  • The Galileans
  • The Geodesics
  • The Gluons
  • The Great Attractors
  • The Ground Wires
  • The Gyroscopes
  • The h Bar Association
  • The Hamiltonians
  • The Harmonics
  • The Heat Engines
  • The Heliosphere
  • The Henrys

T, continued

  • The Hertz
  • The Ideal Gases
  • The Impulse Buyers
  • The Inclined Planes
  • The Inductors
  • The Interferometers
  • The Joules
  • The Kelvin Society
  • The Kelvins
  • The Keplerians
  • The Lab Partners
  • The Lagrangians
  • The LC Circuit
  • The Lever Arms
  • The Light Cones
  • The Limiting Cases
  • The Local Group
  • The Mach Cones
  • The Magnetars
  • The Maxwellians
  • The Megawatts
  • The Meniscus
  • The Mesons
  • The Microstates
  • The Multimeters
  • The Multiverse
  • The Muons
  • The Newtonians
  • The Observables
  • The Ohms
  • The Orbitals
  • The Oscillators
  • The Overtones
  • The Pascals
  • The Path Integrals
  • The Phase Diagrams
  • The Photogates
  • The Physics Phanatics

T, continued

  • The Piezoelectrics
  • The Planck Scale
  • The Point Charges
  • The Positrons
  • The Potential Wells
  • The Probability Clouds
  • The Quantum Numbers
  • The Quasars
  • The Quasiparticles
  • The Qubits
  • The Radiators
  • The Radioisotopes
  • The Ray Diagrams
  • The Reference Frames
  • The Second Law
  • The Semiconductors
  • The Short Circuits
  • The Solenoids
  • The Standard Model
  • The Streamlines
  • The Superfluids
  • The Synchrotrons
  • The Tachyons
  • The Teslas
  • The Third Law
  • The Trajectories
  • The Twin Paradox
  • The Unbalanced Forces
  • The Uncertainty Principals
  • The Vernier Calipers
  • The Volts
  • The Vortices
  • The W and Z
  • The Watts
  • The Wave Functions
  • The Wave Packets
  • The Waveguides
  • Theorists at Recess

T, continued

  • There's No Place Like Ohm
  • Thermal Equilibrium
  • Thermal Expansion
  • Thermal Noise
  • Thin Film Interference
  • Third Floor Theorists
  • Thomson's Electron
  • Three Body Problem
  • Three Colors of Quark
  • Three Sig Figs
  • Three Times Ten to the Eighth
  • Threshold Frequency
  • Ticker Tape Timers
  • Tidal Forces
  • Tidally Locked
  • Tiebreaker Tensors
  • Time Dilation
  • To First Order
  • Too Many Sig Figs
  • Top Quarks
  • Torque
  • Torque of the Town
  • Torque Show Hosts
  • Torque Tortoises
  • Torricelli's Barometer
  • Total Internal Reflection
  • Train Leaves the Station
  • Transverse Waves
  • Traveling Light
  • Treat Us as Point Masses
  • Triggered Oscilloscope
  • Triple Point
  • Tuning Forks
  • Tunnel Vision
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Quasar
  • Two Blocks and a String
  • Two Body Problem
  • Tycho's Data

U: 8 names

  • Ultraviolet Catastrophe
  • Under Pressure
  • Under Tension
  • Uniform Circular Motion
  • Unit Vectors
  • Units, Please
  • Universal Constants
  • Up Quarks

V: 16 names

  • Vacuum Leak
  • Valley of Stability
  • Van de Graaff Hair
  • Vector
  • Vector Sum
  • Vector Vultures
  • Velocity Raptors
  • Venturi Effect
  • Virtual Images
  • Virtual Particles
  • Visible Spectrum
  • Volt Vault
  • Volta's Pile
  • Voltage Dividers
  • Voltage Vipers
  • Vortex Shedding

W: 31 names

  • Waste of Spacetime
  • Watt a Wonderful World
  • Watt Is Love
  • Watt's Up
  • Wave Equation
  • Wave Fronts
  • Wave Goodbye to the Competition
  • Wave Hello
  • Wave Particle Duality
  • Wavelength Wolves
  • We Are Stardust
  • We Do Not Commute
  • We Showed Our Work
  • Weak Interaction
  • Weighing the Earth
  • Weight Is Not Mass
  • What Goes Up
  • Wheatstone Bridge
  • White Dwarfs
  • Whiteboard Wavelengths
  • Why the Sky Is Blue
  • Wien's Displacement
  • Within Error Bars
  • Within Experimental Error
  • Work Done by the System
  • Work Energy Theorem
  • Work Function
  • Work in Progress
  • Worth the Weight
  • Wrong Mode, Right Answer
  • Wu's Experiment

Y: 3 names

  • Young's Fringes
  • Young's Modulus
  • Yukawa's Meson

Z: 7 names

  • Zero Error
  • Zero Internal Resistance
  • Zero Kelvin Chill
  • Zero Point Energy
  • Zero Resistance
  • Zero the Scale
  • Zeroth Law Abiding