I first placed the sun at the center of the universe.
Who is Copernicus
100
The tool Newton used to break light into a spectrum.
What is a prism
100
An object a rest will
What is stay at rest forever until an outside force is acted on it
100
Newton really did not care for _______. So he said: “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of _______.”
What is people
100
The object Newton first used to explain the force of gravity.
What is an apple
200
I proved that Aristotle's 4 elements of air, earth, fire and water were not correct. I went on to prove that some things, like gold, seem to be made of nothing else.
Who is Boyle
200
Newton proposed that Aristotle was wrong about white light. He determined that separate colors are primary and white light is _____.
What is secondary
200
The two things that influence force.
What is mass and acceleration
200
This book became a model for experimental physics in the 18th century.
What is Opticks
200
The rationale for the name Sir Isaac Newton
What is he was the first scientist to be knighted
300
I said, "All men by nature desire to know" and I was a great scientist and philosopher 4th century B.C.
Who is Aristotle
300
Newton discovered that visible light is heterogeneous. What does this mean?
What is light is made of colors (the primary colors)
300
This will happen, according to the third law of motion, when you hit a balloon.
What is the balloon will move back because of the force you put on it and the balloon will exert a force on your hand
300
Newton was inspired by seeking to find _____. So he said “Plato is my friend - Aristotle is my friend - but my greatest friend is _____."
What is truth
300
This is a man Newton did not get along with because he liked to work alone, not be critiqued, and they argued about who made advancements in the understanding of light first.
Who is Robert Hooke
400
I claimed the planets do not orbit in a circular pattern. Instead, I proposed the orbit in an elliptical pattern.
Who is Kepler
400
Newton found that the degree of ___________ changes the color of the light not the way our eyes refract the light.
What is refrangibility (or refraction)
400
State Newton's third law of motion.
What is for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
400
The math that Newton helped advance by developing new, rigorous methods
What is calculus
400
The reason the moon’s natural trajectory to travel in a straight line
What is inertia - an object in motion stays in motion
500
I contributed to algebra by introducing the notion of using x, y, z to stand for unknowns.
Who is Descartes
500
He found that white light is made up of a spectrum of colors with ____ being the least refrangible and ______ being the most refrangible.
What is red (least) and violet (most)
500
I am required, according to Newton’s second law, to change the direction of an object.
What is a force
500
"If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of _____."
What is giants
500
Newton created this unit to measure the smallest unit of time and movement