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General Physics
Pop-culture Physics
100

This type of acceleration occurs when an object slows down.

What is negative acceleration (or deceleration)?

100

The unit of pressure in the SI system.

What is pascal (Pa)?

100

Energy in motion is called this.

What is kinetic energy?

100

This force keeps the planets in orbit around the sun.

What is gravity?

100

This Pixar movie involves a robot cleaning up Earth and escaping gravity.

What is WALL-E?

200

The area under a velocity-time graph gives you this.

What is displacement?

200

This formula calculates pressure.

What is pressure = force ÷ area?

200

Energy stored due to position or height.

What is potential energy?

200

The Earth’s gravity gives objects this acceleration (in m/s²).

What is 9.8 m/s²?

200

This Pink Floyd album is named after an astronomical object.

What is The Dark Side of the Moon?

300

This equation: v = u + at connects velocity, acceleration, and this variable.

What is time?

300

This is why snowshoes prevent you from sinking in snow.

What is reduced pressure due to larger surface area?

300

The SI unit of energy.

What is the joule?

300

The bending of light as it passes through materials.

What is refraction?

300

In Avengers: Endgame, this concept is used to travel through time.

What is the quantum realm (or quantum physics)?

400

The unit for acceleration in the SI system.

What is m/s²?

400

The pressure in a fluid increases with this variable increasing.

What is depth?

400

The formula for gravitational potential energy.

What is PE = mgh?

400

This invisible form of energy travels as waves and allows us to see.

What is light (or electromagnetic radiation)?

400

This theoretical particle inspired a book called The God Particle.

What is the Higgs boson?

500

An object thrown upwards will have this value for velocity at the top of its path.

What is zero?

500

This principle explains why a balloon expands when air is pumped in.

What is Pascal's Principle?

500

A 2 kg object at 5 m height has how much potential energy? (g = 10 m/s²)

What is 100 J?

500

This phenomenon explains why we hear thunder after we see lightning.

What is the speed difference between light and sound?

500

This author of Contact helped popularize physics through fiction.

Who is Carl Sagan?

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