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Physics
100
The location of the Comcast buildings
Where is Philadelphia?
100
In many space battles, you hear loud explosions outside the spaceship. In real life, this would not happen because space has none of this medium that sound needs to travel.
What is air?
100
He made a guest appearance in the Footloose musical and is also the school principal.
Who is Mr. Maxson?
100
The red planet, and 4th from the sun.
What is Mars?
100
The rate at which velocity changes, whether speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction, defines this vector quantity often measured in m/s²
What is acceleration?
200
This 102 story building was constructed in 1931
What is the Empire State Building
200
In Speed (1994), the bus jumps a 50-foot gap in the freeway and lands safely, but real physics requires enough speed to cover horizontal distance during the fall time dictated by this accelerating force.
What is gravity?
200
This is the conference that Deptford sports play in
What is the Tri-County Conference?
200
Kepler's first law states that planets orbit the Sun in these non-circular paths, with the Sun at one focus rather than the center.
What are ellipses?
200
This principle states that in a closed system, total linear momentum remains constant if no external forces act, explaining why rocket exhaust pushes the rocket forward in space
What is conservation of momentum?
300
This tower built for the 1889 World's Fair, is a 330-meter-tall iron structure that actually grows by up to 6 inches in summer due to thermal expansion.
What is the Eiffel Tower
300
In Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Maverick freefalls from extreme height in a jet ejection and survives without reaching this maximum speed where air resistance balances gravitational force.
What is terminal velocity?
300
The year the Deptford Highschool opened.
What is 1957
300
Without an atmosphere to create drag or friction, spacecraft in orbit maintain constant speed indefinitely, demonstrating this law where no net external forces act to change motion.
What is Newton's 1st Law of Motion?
300
In a head-on collision between a heavy truck and light car of equal speed, the lighter car experiences much greater acceleration change because momentum change equals mass times this vector quantity
What is velocity?
400
This is the world's tallest building, standing 2,717 feet tall.
What is the Burj Khalifa
400
The Martian (2015) depicts a fierce storm damaging equipment and forcing evacuation, but this wouldn't happen on Mars because the planet lacks a dense enough version of this gaseous medium to transmit strong wind forces.
What is atmosphere?
400
This notable alumni is a motivational speaker, fitness trainer and choreographer best known for his home fitness programs T25, Insanity and Hip-Hop Abs.
Who is Shaun T?
400
Kepler's third law relates a planet's orbital period squared to its average distance from the Sun cubed, showing that farther planets take proportionally longer in these sweeping equal areas over equal times from his second law.
What is period?
400
This Newton's universal law states that every object attracts every other with a force proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.
What is Gravitation?
500
What is the Willis Tower
500
Near the Gargantua black hole in Interstellar (2014), time dilation makes one hour on Miller's planet equal to seven Earth years due to extreme gravitational effects predicted by this Einstein theory, where spacetime curvature alters clock rates.
What is general relativity?
500
This notable alumni is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
Who is Patti Smith?
500
This is about 11.2 km/s from Earth, because beyond this speed, an object's total mechanical energy becomes positive, allowing it to break free from gravity's pull without further propulsion.
What is escape velocity?
500
This stored energy depends on an object's position in a gravitational field, increasing with height above the ground.
What is potential energy?