Physics Jeopardy

Motion

100

Displacement / Time

What is Velocity

200

Velocity / Time

What is Acceleration?

300

This variable is always positive.

What is Time?

400

A² + B² = C²

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

500

The path followed by a projectile

What is trajectory?

Forces

100

Sum of all forces acting on an object.

What is net force?

200

1. A body at rest tends to remain at rest.
2. A body in motion tends to remain in motion at a constant velocity unless acted on by a net external force. (Recall that constant velocity means that the body moves in a straight line and at a constant speed.)

What is Newton's First Law?

300

9.8 m/s²

What is the acceleration due to gravity?

400

F = ma

What is Newtons Second Law?

500

Newton's Third Law

What is "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"?

Thermodynamics

100

The number of Laws of Thermodynamics.

What is 4?

200

Energy cannot be created or destroyed it may only be transformed or transferred.

What is the First Law of Thermodynamics.

300

Internal Combustion engines are an example of this.

What is a heat engine?

400

The work (output) divided by the heat (input).

What is thermal efficiency?

500

A measure of the disorder of a system.

What is entropy?

Waves

100

These must have a medium to travel through.

What are mechanical waves?

200

A pulse wave.

A sudden disturbance that only generates one or a few waves.

300

This wave propagates so that the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

What is  transverse wave?

400

Wavelength times frequency or wavelength divided by period.

What is wave velocity?

500

One half the total height of a wave.

What is amplitude?