Think the periodic table of the elements is beyond boring? Perhaps you escaped it in high school. Either way, try these puzzles.

Physicists and chemists are intimately familiar with the periodic table of the elements but learning all the symbols and the properties of the elements can be a dry as cardboard at high noon in the middle of the Sahara.

Here are some puzzles that incorporate the elements and a few extra friends from physics formulas. See if you can solve them all. Post your answers in the discussion board. The person with the most correct answers wins bragging rights! All the answers and explanations will be posted next week.

1) Catch a wave:

Americurium Fermium

2) Running in circles:

Lithium, Hydrogen, Beryllium, Hydrogen, Boron, Fluorine, Helium...

3) Not exactly alchemy:

If

O + He = Ne

and

Ne / He = B

and

H * H = H

then

N - C + F = ?

4) A Herculean puzzle:

What do these elements have in common?

Hg

U

Pu

5) Go the distance:

What is similar between gold and the distance between the Sun and the Earth?

What is similar between 0.0254 meters and the element Indium?

6) Use the force Luke:

Dysprosium and neon = 10^-5 ?

7) The tower of Babel, here and there:

Aluminum, boron, erbium, tellurium, indium, sulfur, tellurium, indium, degrees, energy, vanadium, energy, angular momentum, oxygen, phosphorus, energy, degrees, thorium, energy, thorium, energy, oxygen, gas constant, yttrium, oxygen, fermium, rhenium, lanthanum, titanium, vanadium, iodine, tesla, yttrium.

Extra difficult bonus:

This caesar cipher contains two physics messages:

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