FANTASTIC FORCES
When surfaces slide over one another, a force of what occurs
What is friction?
This scientist created three laws of motion
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
A: The rate of increase of velocity
What is acceleration?
Temperature is measured in physics in
What are Kelvin?
Quantity that has magnitude but not direction
What is scalar?
The direction of the friction force is always in the direction of what motion
What is the opposing?
He was 26 in 1905, his “miracle year’ in which he published four papers altering the course of modern physics
Who is Albert Einstein?
I: The tendency to stay in the same place or on the same path until acted upon by an outside force
What is inertia?
Heat is measured in
What are Joules?
The SI unit used to measure time
What is a second?
When as object is in motion under the influence of gravitational pull only
What is free fall?
This physicist discovered two elements, won two Nobels and coined the term ‘radioactivity?
Who is Marie Curie?
T: Relating to a fusion reaction at a temperature of several million degrees
What is thermonuclear?
Lowest possible temperature that a substance may have
What is absolute zero?
Ten to the power of 12 is this “T”
What is tera?
Speed at which the acceleration of a falling object terminates because air resistance balances its weight
What is terminal velocity?
The constant named for this physicist serves as the proportionality between energy and frequency
Who is Max Planck?
D: A nuclide made from the radioactive decay of a parent nuclide
What is daughter?
Absolute zero on the Kelvin Scale is
What is 0 K?
Physics law describing the relationship between voltage, current and resistance
What are Ohms?
On a distance-time graph, what variable is on the x-axis?
What is time?
This astronomer identified the relationship between a galaxy’s distance and its speed
Who is Edwin Hubble?
M: These and baryons make up the major subgroup of hadrons
What are mesons?
Inventor of the thermometer
Who is Galileo?
“Breaking Bad” fans know this last name of 1932 Nobel physics prize winner Werner…
Who is Heisenberg?