Forces
This man made many significant contributions to physics and calculus. He created the theory of gravity in 1666.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The standard international unit of distance/length?
What is meters?
The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
(Options: Jerrie Mock, Jacqueline Cochran, Willa Brown, Eileen Collins, Ameila Earhart, Jeannie Leavitt)
Who is Amelia Earhart?
The name for a path taken of a projectile.
What is a trajectory?
The force of attraction between two objects (i.e. between you and the ground)
What is Gravity?
A quantity that contains only a magnitude value.
What is a scalar?
Became the first female astronaut to serve as pilot of the Space Shuttle during STS-63.
(Options: Jerrie Mock, Jacqueline Cochran, Willa Brown, Eileen Collins, Ameila Earhart, Jeannie Leavitt)
Who is Eileen Collins?
This happens when a brick and a piece of paper fall at the same time from the same height in a vacuum.
What is land at the same time?
An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an external force.
What is Newton's 1st Law of Motion?
How much time does it take for a car travelling 30m/s to travel 420 meters?
What is 14s
First female fighter pilot and the first female fighter wing commander in 2012.
(Options: Jerrie Mock, Jacqueline Cochran, Willa Brown, Eileen Collins, Ameila Earhart, Jeannie Leavitt)
Who is Jeannie Leavitt?
A vector that measures the shortest distance between two points.
What is displacement?
The forward directing horizontal force on an airplane
What is thrust?
This equation is used to find the x and/or y components of a vector.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem (a^2 + b^2 = c^2)?
First African American woman to earn a pilot’s license in the U.S., 1938
(Options: Jerrie Mock, Jacqueline Cochran, Willa Brown, Eileen Collins, Ameila Earhart, Jeannie Leavitt)
Who is Willa Brown?
The acceleration of a plane that moves constantly at 593mph for 120 seconds?
What is 0m/s^2?
Newton's Second Law (equation)?
What is Force = mass x acceleration (F=ma)?
What is acceleration?
First woman to fly solo around the world, 1964
(Options: Jerrie Mock, Jacqueline Cochran, Willa Brown, Eileen Collins, Ameila Earhart, Jeannie Leavitt)
Who is Jerrie Mock
Earth's gravitational constant (acceleration due to gravity)?