Vocabulary
Projectile Motion
Circular Motion
Relative Velocity
A Random Mix of Fun
100
An object shot through the air.
What is a projectile?
100
The horizontal and verticle components of a projectile's motion are this.
What is independent?
100
This is the formula for centripetal acceleration when you don't know the object's velocity.
What is 4*pi^2*r/ T^2 ?
100
If a person standing on a boat traveling east walks west, you do this with the velocity vectors to calculate relative velocity.
What is subtract the velocity vectors?
100
This is the HW from the December syllabus on 12/12.
What is "study for your quiz"?
200
The path through space traveled by a projectile.
What is the trajectory?
200
This is when a projectile reaches it's maximum height.
What is t/2 or half of the total time in the air?
200
This is the distance traveled by an objected in circular motion, during one revloution.
What is 2*pi*r ?
200
If a person standing in the back of a bus traveling north walks to the front of the bus, you would do this to the velocity vectors to calculate relative velocity.
What is add the velocity vectors?
200
This is Ms. Shorty's favorite Christmas song.
What is "Baby, it's cold outside"?
300
The movement of an object or particle trajectory at a constant speed around a circle.
What is uniform circular motion?
300
The time it takes for a stone thrown horizontally at a speed of 5.0 m/s from the top of a 78.4 m cliff.
What is 4.0 seconds?
300
This is the centripetal acceleration of an 13g object, traveling around a circle with radius 0.93 m in 1.18 seconds.
What is 26 m/s/s?
300
Ms. Shorty and her twinsie are standing on a ferry boat traveling east at a speed of 4.0 m/s. This is the velocity of a softball relative to the water if Ms. Shorty rolls it north with a velocity of 0.75 m/s to her twin.
What is 4.1 m/s ?
300
This is answer to the quiz question on 12/7.
What is 0.35 N?
400
The change in velocity over time of an object in uniform circular motion.
What is centripetal acceleration?
400
The horizontal velocity of a toy truck that falls of a conveyor belt into a box 0.6 m below and 0.4 m away from the belt.
What is 1 m/s?
400
This is why a person sitting in a car turning left hits the right side of the car.
What is the person's velocity is tangent to the motion of the car?
400
This is Mr. Krol's velocity relative to the street when he "runs" at speed of 4.0 m/s to the front of a bus traveling 2.0 m/s north.
What is 6.0 m/s north?
400
This is where Mr. Krol earned his master's degree.
What is Cambridge College?
500
The net force toward the center of a circle for an object moving in a circle.
What is centripetal force?
500
This is the maximum height reached by a football kicked at an initical velocity of 27 m/s at a 30 degree angle above the horizontal.
What is 9.3 meters?
500
This is the force of tension in a 0.60m string that twirls a 40.0 g stone horizontally at a speed of 2.2 m/s.
What is 0.32 N?
500
Ms. Shorty's mom pulls a wagon around her neighborhood at a speed of 0.75 m/s. Her pet squirrel (who is sitting in the wagon) crawls to ward the rear of the wagon at a rate of 2.0 cm/s. (It's a slow squirrel). This is the squirrel's velocity relative to the street.
What is 0.73 m/s?
500
This brand is responsible for introducing our modern image of Santa Clause.
What is Coca Cola?
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