Random questions
It starts about 6 miles up from the ground.
What is the Stratosphere?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
A wave in which the medium vibrates parallel to the direction the wave travels.
What is longitudinal wave?
A coin made of layers of different metals.
What is a Clad coin?
Scout and Jem
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Africa's largest country in area, it gained independence from France in 1962 after an 8-year-long revolution.
What is Algeria?
The total kinetic energy of the moving atoms and molecules of an object make up this.
What is thermal energy?
Any speed that is faster than the speed of sound in the medium of interest.
What is supersonic speed?
Shaving the edges of a coin in order to get some of the precious metal from the coin.
What is clipping coins?
Aunt Polly
What is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Caffeine is one of these pick-me-up substances.
What are stimulants?
This is the type of energy that is carried by sound waves.
What is sound energy?
An indication of how high or low a sound is, which is primarily determined by the frequency of the sound wave.
What is pitch?
A law of economics; says bad money drives good money out of circulation. People hoard good money and trade with legally overvalued money.
What is Gresham's Law?
John Thornton
What is The Call of the Wild?
This section once held the cheapest accommodations on passenger ships.
What is steerage?
This person developed the Theory of Special Relativity in 1905.
Who is Albert Einstein? (double points - name this equation E-mcsquared)
The --------- of a wave is the maximum displacement of the medium from its rest position.
What is the amplitude?
Price increases rising at 10 to 99 percent per year due to inflation.
What is double-digit inflation?
Matthew Hollowell
What is The Sign of the Beaver?
Moving these structures found on a football field has come to mean changing the rults.
What are the goalposts?
The equation for kinetic energy.
KE=1/2 x m x v x v
A change in sound frequency caused by the motion of the sound source, motion of the listener, or both.
What is Doppler Effect?
A law which provides for the punishment of anyone who refuses to accept the legal tender money.
What is the Legal tender law?
Henry Fleming
What is The Red Badge of Courage?