Resultant Vectors
Component Resolution
Upwardly-Moving Projectiles
Fast-Moving Projectiles
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100
This method of finding a resultant vector involves lining up the arrows of vectors with the bases of other vectors and then finding the overall vector.
What is "Tip-to-Tail Method"?
100
These are the two components any 2-D vector can be resolved to.
What are Horizontal (x) and Vertical (y)?
100
This shape is created by objects moving with a horizontal and vertical component.
What is "an arc" or "a parabola"?
100
This is the name of a fast-moving projectile that has found itself in orbit around a large body.
What is a satellite?
100
(History Question)
This war was fought between the United States and Great Britain between 1812 - 1815.
What is the War of 1812?
200
This method of finding a resultant vector involves building a 4-sided figure using the two vectors as adjacent sides, then adding sides parallel to those two vectors, and finding the diagonal.
What is "The Parallelogram Method"?
200
This equation named after a dead mathematician is how we resolve any vector into its horizontal and vertical components.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
State the equation.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
A2 + B2 = C2
200
If air resistance is negligible and the total time in travel is 12 seconds, this is the time the projectile reached the apex of its arc.
What is 6 seconds?
200
This type of satellite includes moons and the rocks that comprise rings around planets.
What is a natural satellite?
200
(English Question)
Sarcasm is an example of this type of irony.
What is verbal irony?
300
This is the resultant vector of Vectors A & B below.
What is +42 km?
300
This is the horizontal component (Vx) of the vector below.
What is Vx = 8.66 m/s ?
300
If air resistance is negligible and the time a projectile reaches its apex is 11 seconds, then this is the total trip time.
What is 22 seconds?
300
These are 2 examples of artificial satellites.
What are telecommunication satellites, the International Space Station, and space debris.
300
(Math Question)
12 = 3x + x
This is the value of x in the above equation.
What is x = 3?
400
This is the resultant vector of Vectors A & B below.
What is +18 km?
400
This is the vertical component (Vy) of the vector below.
What is Vy = 5 m/s ?
400
The Velocity-time graph below depicts an object thrown in an arc-like path. At this time, the projectile reached its peak.
What is 2.5 s?
400
If a satellite travels too slowly, it is most likely to do this.
What is falling to the surface of whatever body it is orbiting?
400
(Math Question)
0 = (x + 2)(x - 5)
These are the two values of x in the above quadratic.
What are x = -2 & x = 5?
500
This is the magnitude of the resultant vector of Vectors A & B below.
What is 32.3 km?
500
These are the horizontal & vertical components of the vector below:
What are:
Vx = - 5.55 m
Vy = - 9.61 m
500
This is the vertical component of a projectile's velocity at the top of its path.
What is zero?
500
This is what happens to satellites that travel too fast for their current orbit.
What is launching out of the atmosphere into space?
500
This Polish scientist (who married a Frenchman and moved to France) discovered polonium & radium before her death 1934.
Who is Madame Marie Curie?