Fierce Scientists
It's the Law!
Forces
Friction
Definitions
100
He is known as the "father" of experimental science.
Who is Galileo?
100
A space craft will keep moving through space until something stops it.
What is Newton's First Law?
100
The two types of forces (Definition of a force)
What is a push or a pull?
100
The force that brings nearly everything to a stop
What is friction?
100
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
200
Perhaps the greatest scientist who ever lived. He invented Calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
This law explains when your BMX hits a bush and you fly over the handle bars.
What is Newton's First Law? (Law of Inertia)
200
The remainder after all forces have been added and subtracted
What is Net Force?
200
The type of friction on the tires of a car while driving
What is Rolling Friction?
200
The distance traveled per unit time
What is speed?
300
This mathematician showed that the planets have elliptical orbits.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
300
You lean against a wall and it pushes back.
What is Newton's Third Law?
300
Forces that cause motion
What are Unbalanced Forces?
300
This prevents an object from moving when a force is applied
What is Static Friction?
300
The gravitational force on a mass
What is weight?
400
This famous astronomer provided the data for Kepler's Laws of Planetary motion.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
400
Push two objects with the same force and the lighter object accelerates faster.
What is Newton's Second Law?
400
When 2 equal forces act in opposite directions, they cancel each other out and there is NO motion.
What are Balanced Forces?
400
The brake pads stopping your car use this kind of friction.
What is Sliding Friction?
400
The speed of an object in a specific direction
What is velocity?
500
His support for the Heliocentric model of the solar system started a "revolution".
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
500
Friction made this law difficult to understand
What is Newton's First Law? (Law of Inertia)
500
When forces act in the same direction we _________ them and when forces act in the opposite direction we ____________ them.
What are add, and subtract?
500
The two factors that affect the force of friction.
What are the type of surface and the contact force?
500
According to Newton's third law, "If you ________ on it, it ______ on you!
What are push and pushes?
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