Know your units
Equation of the Month
Vocabulary
Gravity
Random
100
seconds
What is time?
100
Newtons Second Law
What is F=ma?
100
This causes you to move into your car door when rounding a corner at high speeds
What is centripetal force?
100
9.81 m/s^2
What is Earth's gravity
100
A number without direction
What is a scalar?
200
Hertz (1/s)
What is frequency?
200
Hooke's Law
What is F=kx?
200
To be moving around a much larger larger object in circular motion in space
What is orbit?
200
First person credited with discovering gravity
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
The Law of Periods
What is Kepler's Third Law
300
kilograms
What is mass?
300
mass x gravity
What is weight?
300
The path of a planet in orbit
What is elliptical?
300
A term used to explain that ALL objects have gravity
What is Universal?
300
6-7
What will the New York Giants record be after they beat the Chargers this weekend?
400
m/s
What is velocity?
400
(G*m1*m2)/(r^2)
What is Gravitational Field Strength?
400
365 days or 31,536,000 seconds
What is Earth's Period?
400
A object used to describe space and gravity, metaphorically
What is a blanket? (A sheet is also acceptable)
400
Where the object accelerates towards when in circular motion
What is the center of the circle?
500
(kg *m)/(s^2)
What is a Newton?
500
centripetal acceleration
What is velocity squared divided by radius
500
The moon is an example of this
What is a satellite?
500
mass and distance
What are the two factors that affects the gravitational field?
500
from Latin centrum "center" and petere "to seek"
What is centripetal?
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