Personal Life
The place where he was born and died
What is The Hague in The Netherlands?
True of False: He invented the pendulum clock
What is True?
Light Waves from largest to smallest
What are Radio waves, Microwaves, Infrared waves, Visible waves, Ultraviolet light, X-Rays, and Gamma rays?
The Law of Free Fall
What is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it?
Name of the society that elected him
What is The Royal Society of London?
True or False: His ideas of the pendulum are still used in modern clocks and watches
What is True?
A wavelet is...
What are a short, wave-like movement that starts at zero, rises, and returns to zero?
Centripetal Force
What is any inward force that keeps an object moving in a circular motion?
The name of the moon or planet he discovered
What is Titan?
These help a pendulum swing in a curve-like motion instead of a circular motion
What are cycloidal cheeks?
True or False: He did not establish the science of physical optics, but he did have a part in it
What is False?
Centrifugal Force
What is a real, inward pull that keeps an object moving in a circle?
The time period or revolutionary period that he was a part of
What is The Scientific Revolution?
The repeated movement of something back and forth around a central point or middle position
What is oscillation?
He believed that light was composed of...
What are tiny, closely spaced, elastic particles that vibrate and pass on the waves of light?
Newton's cradle is an example of...
Name two polymaths that he corresponded with
Who are Martin Mersenne, Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, and Blaise Pascal?
His book about pendulum motion and its application to clock designs is called...
What is Horologium Oscillatorium?
His wave theory of light
What is a medium that must exist in space and that light is transmitted with a rapid but finite speed as shock waves?
Conservation momentum is...
What is when the total momentum before a collision equals the total momentum after the collision?