Weight is the measure of the ___________ force exerted on an object.
What is gravitational?
100
T/F: Space has no gravity.
What is false?
100
Calculate the weight of a 10kg dog on Earth.
What is 100N?
100
The moon orbits around the Earth because of _________.
What is gravity?
200
Mass (does or does not) change when you go to the moon
What is does not
200
The standard unit for weight is
What is the Newton?
200
Object A is twice as heavy as Object B. If I drop Object A and Object B from the same height at the same time, which object will hit first?
What is neither. They will hit at the same time.
200
Calculate the weight of a 10kg dog on one of Saturn's moons where g = 3m/s2.
What is 30N?
200
Astronauts are not floating in space, they are _________.
What is falling?
300
Mass is the amount of _________, or "stuff", an object contains
What is matter?
300
When you go to the moon, your weight will be __________ than it is on Earth.
What is less?
300
The formal name for the summary of Newton's work regarding gravity is "The Law of ________ Gravitation" because it applies everywhere, even in space.
What is Universal?
300
Calculate the mass of my notebook, which has a weight of 60N on Earth.
What is 6kg?
300
Terminal velocity is when which two forces are equal?
What is air resistance and gravity?
400
This tool is used to measure mass
What is a balance (or triple beam balance)?
400
A device, other than your bathroom scale, used to measure weight is...
What is a spring scale?
400
Name two objects in this room that do not exert a gravitational force on each other.
What is impossible. All objects exert a gravitational force on all other objects.
400
Calculate the mass of a child whose mass is 200N on a planet with a gravitational acceleration of 20m/s2.
What is 10kg.
400
Objects on Earth can never truly be in free fall because Earth has ________.
What is air/air resistance?
500
Which of the following would be considered a measure of mass
a. 60N
b. 60m/s2
c. 60
d. 60g
What is d, 60g (60 grams)?
500
If you go to a planet in which the mass is twice the mass of Earth, but the planet is the same size (same radius and diameter), your weight will
a. stay the same
b. double
c. drop in half
d. not enough information
What is b, double?
500
The SI unit for g, the gravitational acceleration.
What is meters per second squared (m/s^2)
500
If a cat weighs 35N on Planet Z and has a mass of 7N, what is the gravitational acceleration on Planet Z?
What is 5m/s2?
500
Objects can only orbit if they experience two things. Those two things are _______ and _________.