The law that states that an object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion.
What is inertia?
100
It is the force of gravity on an object.
What is weight?
100
The combination of all forces acting on an object.
What is net force?
100
The man who said earth was moving.
Who is Copernicus?
200
The force acting on two touching objects.
What is friction?
200
If a force is exerted on a hockey puck, what is the only factor that will determine how long the puck will move for?
Friction
200
It is determined by the mass of an object.
What is inertia?
200
When the net force of an object is zero
What is equilibrium?
200
The man who said that the sun was the center of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
300
Any push or pull.
What is force (according to Galileo)?
300
It is what is required for an object to change its current state of motion.
What is an external force?
300
It is a measure of inertia.
What is mass?
300
A net force greater than 0 in any direction.
What is needed for an object to move?
300
A coin is flipped in a plane travelling at 630 mph. What is its vertical component?
10 meters per second per second (9.8 meters per s per s)
400
One of the divisions of motion that Aristotle distinguished. It is imposed motion.
What is violent motion?
400
An astronaut is stranded in space with nothing but a wrench. He needs to get back to his shuttle but does not know how to make himself move. What must he do?
Throw the wrench. The wrench exerts a force equal to his force exerted on the wrench.
400
It is the SI Unit for force.
What is the newton?
400
It is the force that acts on an object and pulls it down.
What is gravity?
400
107,000 km/h
What is the speed with which the earth orbits the sun?
500
The name of Copernicus' book which contained the ideas that would revolutionize our understanding of the earth.
What is the "De Revolutionibus?"
500
The day that Isaac Newton was born.
What is December 25th, or Christmas Day?
500
Mass x Acceleration due to gravity
What is the equation to find weight?
500
It is also called the normal force.
What is support force?
500
The heliocentric model.
What is the name of the concept which states that the earth revolves around the sun?