Astronomy
Our galaxy contains hundreds of billions of them, but only about 3,000 are visible to the naked eye.
What are stars
This is the law explaining why the dishes stay on the table when you yank the tablecloth out from underneath.
What is Newton’s 1st Law
What must be minimised and maximised respectively to increase acceleration in a certain direction?
What are drag and thrust?
This was the lab that required a presentation
What is the Spacecraft Mission Design Lab?
The force opposite of Thrust
What is Drag
Six-letter word for a large piece of rock from space that passes into Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor
This is the law that says that when you jump up in the air, you are pushing the earth down.
What is Newton’s 3rd Law
This orbit is a location where the gravity of the sun and the Earth creates a stable orbit far from Earth.
What is a Lagrange Point?
This was the first project/lab we did.
What is the Airplane Lab
The force opposite of Lift.
What is Weight
On Oct. 4, Russia launched this first satellite into space.
What is Sputnik
This is the formula of Newton’s 2nd Law.
What is F=ma
Flyby spacecraft that transformed our understanding of the four giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and revealed fascinating, unexpected aspects of their moons and rings
What are Voyager I and II?
This lab was the one to maximize lift.
What is the Egg Drop Lab
This force provides an upward force that usually originates from the wings.
What is Lift
Despite being 10 times the size of the Earth, this sixth planet from the sun would actually float in water.
What is Saturn
A man punches a wall with 100N of force. This is the magnitude of force applied to the man by the wall.
What is 100N
The most recent Mars mission is a _____ mission. (Hint: 2020)
What is a lander/rover mission?
This lab went over the minimization of drag.
What is the paper airplane lab?
This force causes an aircraft to fall to the ground.
What is Weight
The light and radio energy emitted by quasars may come from gases being sucked into these.
What are black holes
A cylinder is placed on a frictionless table, and the table is pushed underneath at a velocity of 1 m/s. This is the velocity of the cylinder.
What is 0 m/s
The main supporting structure for the complement of instruments and various deployable features (e.g producing/relaying data)
What is the payload module?
This lab took Keplarian orbits into consideration.
What is the Spacecraft Mission Design Lab
This is the net acceleration in all directions of an aircraft traveling at a constant speed of Mach 1.
What is 0