Famous Gravititians
Letters
A Little Math
Things That Sort of Make Sense?
Get off my Property!
100
They say his biggest ideas came from a fruit-related head trauma
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
This capital letter stands for the gravitational constant, or the amount of the force of gravity applied to every object in the universe.
What is G?
100
Because it's on the denominator, when r gets bigger the gravitational pull does this.
What is get smaller?
100
A feather will fall to the moon faster than it will to the Earth, even though the Earth has a stronger pull on it. This is because Earth also has _________.
What is atmosphere?
100
Einstein theorized that gravity works because space is _______ by objects with mass.
What is warped?
200
Some say he had crazy hair. He said "it's all relative."
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
The smaller counterpart of G, this letter denotes any object's acceleration in free fall when it's close to Earth--assuming air resistance doesn't "drag" it back a little.
What is g?
200
The greater the mass of an object, the stronger this will be.
What is the gravitational pull?
200
When an object orbits closer to the Sun, it travels ______.
What is faster?
200
This is the pull that keeps a planet accelerating in a circular-ish pattern.
What is Centripetal Force?
300
This famous thinker must have been hungry when he thought up egg-shaped planetary orbits.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
300
The designation for the letter m in a gravitational equation.
What is Mass?
300
Newton calculated G as 6.674 x 10... to this power. It makes a really small number.
What is -11?
300
The moon's pull on the Earth makes the planet's rotation do this. We see it in the form of tides.
What is wobble?
300
This one isn't really a force, but a combination of gravity and inertia pushing an object outward.
What is Centrifugal Force?
400
This guy's part in the story isn't very important; except that he kept exceptional records and thought that the Sun revolved around the Earth. Also, his name sounds like someone's choking on a chicken bone.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
400
In math it's used for 'radius', but in physics the letter r is describing this scalar quantity.
What is distance between two objects?
400
True or false: a human-size object won't pull on the Earth as strongly as Earth pulls on the object.
What is false?
400
Earth will have a stronger attraction to a massive object than to a small one, but both objects will fall at the same rate. This is because the larger object also has greater ________.
What is inertia?
400
This type of geometric shape has 2 focii instead of a single center.
What is an ellipse?
500
Less a scientist and more a lunatic, this guy thought it was a good idea to jump out of a perfectly good weather balloon just to break the sound barrier--but not every bone in his body, luckily.
Who is Felix Baumgartner?
500
The name of the Greek letter below. It usually denotes the measure of an angle. 
What is theta?
500
We can determine a planet's distance from the sun using this type of operation with fractions, first constructed by Kepler. It looks something like this:
What is a proportion?
500
According to this Einstein theory, if I were on a really huge planet or the Millenium Falcon, time would pass slower for me than it would for the rest of you schmucks.
What is Special Relativity?
500
17th century thinkers believed objects in the heavens orbited each other because of this force. Turns out there was a more specific answer.
What is God's will?