Mechanics Problems
Famous Physicists
Fun (not physics)
Relativity
Astro
100

An object travels 60 meters in 5 seconds. This is its average speed.

12 m/s

100

This physicist is famous for developing the three laws of motion

Isaac Newton

100

This green animated ogre became an internet meme and stars in a DreamWorks movie franchise.

Shrek 

100

This is the approximate speed of light in a vacuum.

3x10^8 m/s

100

This galaxy is bound to collide with ours.

Andromeda Galaxy

200

A solid disk and a hoop roll without slipping down the same ramp from rest at the same height. This object reaches the bottom first. 

what is the solid disk?
200

This scientist developed the theory of special and general relativity.

Albert Einstein

200

This singer is known for the hit album SOS.

SZA

200

According to Einstein, gravity is explained as the curvature of this

Spacetime 

200

This process allows stars to produce energy by combining hydrogen nuclei into helium.

Nuclear fusion

300

This quantity is conserved in an isolated system during a collision.

Momentum

300

This physicist discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism

Michael Faraday

300

This HBO series follows a wealthy family fighting over control of a media empire.

Succession

300

This phenomenon occurs when a moving clock appears to run slower compared to a stationary observer's clock.

Time dilation

300

This law states that a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time.

Keplers second law

400

A ball is thrown straight upward. At its highest point, its velocity is this, but its acceleration is still approximately 9.8 m/s² downward.

0 m/s

400

This physicist is known for her pioneering research on radioactivity and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.

Marie Curie

400

This director created the films The Grand Budapest Hotel and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Wes Anderson 

400

If a spaceship travels at 0.8c, its Lorentz factor is approximately this.

1.67

400

This phenomenon occurs when a massive object bends the light traveling around it due to gravity.

Gravitational lensing

500

A 2 kg object moves at 4 m/s. If its speed doubles, its kinetic energy increases by this factor.

4

500

This physicist developed the uncertainty principle, which states that certain pairs of physical properties cannot both be known with arbitrary precision.

Werner Heisenberg 

500

This filmmaker directed Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Quentin Tarantino

500

According to special relativity, an object moving close to the speed of light appears shorter in the direction of motion. What is this phenomenon called?

Length contract

500

This is the approximate minimum mass a star needs to become a black hole after its core collapses, although the actual threshold depends on stellar evolution.

20-25 solar masses

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