Physics: Effects Named After People - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
a wave's frequency depends on the relative motion of its source and its observer	Doppler	92%
increasing the speed of an incompressible fluid decreases its pressure and/or its height	Bernoulli	46%
an observer in a rotating frame of reference must include fictitious forces when applying Newton's laws	Coriolis	46%
a static magnetic field splits atomic spectral lines	Zeeman	37%
a magnetic field may rotate the linear polarization of light traveling in a material	Faraday	35%
collision with an electron reduces a photon's energy	Compton	22%
a spinning object moving in a fluid is deflected perpendicularly to its motion	Magnus	21%
a magnetic field perpendicular to a current in an electrical conductor causes an electromotive force perpendicular to the current	Hall	19%
a charged particle moving faster than the phase velocity of light in a dielectric material causes light to be emitted	Vavilov-Cherenkov	15%
atoms and molecules may scatter light inelastically	Raman	13%
a superconductor expels any magnetic field	Meissner-Ochsenfeld	12%
an electric field splits and shifts atomic spectral lines	Stark	12%
electric current may flow through a thin insulator separating superconductors	Josephson	9%
a vector potential affects a charged particle in a region with negligible electric and magnetic fields	Aharanov-Bohm	7%
a magnetic field perpendicular to a temperature gradient causes an electromotive force perpendicular to the gradient	Nernst	6%
a temperature gradient may cause an electromotive force, and vice versa	Peltier-Seebeck	6%
an atom transitioning to a lower energy electron configuration may emit an electron	Auger-Meitner	2%
an atomic nucleus bound in a solid may emit or absorb a photon, with no nuclear recoil	Mossbauer	2%
a spacecraft uses fuel most efficiently if it applies thrust at periapsis	Oberth	2%
a bound state of 3 identical bosons can exist even if no pair can form a bound state	Efimov	1%

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