Ch. 1
Two branches of Physical Science.
What are Chemistry & Physics?
Standard temperature scale in the System International system.
What is Kelvin?
Newton's second law of motion formula.
What is F = ma?
The definition of science.
What is the knowledge obtained by observing the natural world?
We celebrate this person's birth at Christmas-time.
Who is Jesus?
The standard measure of mass in the British System.
What is a slug?
The slope of a time versus distance graph represents this property of motion.
What is speed or velocity?
The contrast between mass and weight.
What is the relationship between mass as an absolute measure and weight as a relative measure?
The contrast between potential and kinetic energy.
What is the relationship between the potential energy of position versus the kinetic energy of motion?
The reindeer with a red nose.
Who is Rudolph?
A 120 meter soccer field measured in dekameters.
What is 12 dekameters?
The contrast between speed and velocity.
What is speed is a scalar and velocity is a vector?
Earth's gravitational acceleration constant in feet per second squared.
What is 32?
The work accomplished in walking up three flights of stairs, each 8 feet high, with a very large Gino's pizza which weights 5 pounds.
What is 120 foot-pounds?
The number of times the Grinch's heart grew.
What is three?
An exam paper which is 11 inches long but measured in millimeters.
What is 279.4 millimeters?
Usain Bolt's speed in mph if he ran 100 meters in 10 seconds.
What is 22 mph?
Newton's first law of motion, in complete detail.
What is the fact that an object in motion continues in motion at the same speed and direction AND an object at rest stays at rest, forever, UNLESS a force acts upon it?
The power required to walk up three flights of stairs, each 8 feet high, in 3 seconds, with a very large Gino's pizza which weights 5 pounds.
What is 40 foot-pounds per second?
The name of the prospector in 'Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.'
Who is Yukon Cornelius?
A 12-ounce Frostie root beer in cc's.
What is 177 cubic centimeters?
The value of 'c' in miles per second.
What is 186,000?
If the radius of the earth is cut in half, then the gravity is changed by this much.
What is four times?
My mass is 5 slugs and this is my weight, on earth.
What is 160 pounds?
The name of the character portrayed by Jimmy Stewart in 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
Who is George Bailey?