Projectile Motion
The path of an object, influenced by its initial velocity and gravity, when thrown into the air.
What is a trajectory?
This is what the Greek letter delta (Δ) typically represents.
What is change?
The base metric unit for measuring velocity.
What is meters per second?
A quantity with both direction and magnitude.
What is a vector?
Darth Sidious was publicly known by this name during his time as Chancellor of the Republic and his 23-year reign as Galactic Emperor.
Who is Palpatine?
These are the two components of a projectile's total velocity that are independent of each other.
What are horizontal and vertical?
This physical quantity is equal to an object's rate of change in position.
What is velocity/speed?
The base metric unit for measuring acceleration.
What is meters per second squared?
A quantity with magnitude but no direction.
What is a scalar?
Lt. Cmdr. Spock, first officer aboard the USS Enterprise, was a member of this species.
What is a Vulcan?
Launching a projectile at this angle above the horizontal will maximize horizontal displacement across level ground.
What is 45 degrees?
This physical quantity is equal to an object's rate of change of velocity.
What is acceleration?
What is one thousand?
This is one possible example of a vector quantity.
What are acceleration, velocity, displacement, etc?
This Jedi Master trained Qui-Gon Jinn before falling to the Dark Side and becoming the Sith Lord Darth Tyrannus.
Who is Count Dooku?
At the peak of its trajectory, a projectile's vertical velocity is equal to this value.
What is zero?
This quantity is equal to zero if an object ends in the same position that it began.
What is displacement?
The metric prefix representing one millionth.
What is micro-?
An equation, attributed to an ancient Greek philosopher, which is needed to add vectors in two dimensions.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
It is called Khazad-dûm in the language of the dwarves, and is the place where Gandalf fought with a Balrog of Morgoth.
What are the Mines of Moria?
Ignoring air resistance, this component of a projectile's motion will remain constant.
What is horizontal?
This value is equal to the magnitude of acceleration of a car that slows down from 20 m/s to 10 m/s in the span of 4 seconds.
What is 5 m/s2?
The Greek letter used to abbreviate the metric prefix "micro-"
Mu (μ)
The magnitude of the vector which is the sum of two one-dimensional vectors with magnitudes -12 and +5.
What is -7?
The name of the chief city of Lothlórien, where the Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn reside.
What is Caras Galadhon?