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100

The product of multiplying Mass X Acceleration.

What is force?

100

This is the rate at which an object changes it's velocity when acted on by an unopposed force.

What is acceleration? 

100

Sound waves travel faster in this air temperature.

What is warmer?

What is warm?

What is hot?

What is hotter?

100

What are the four forces that act on rockets.

What are gravity, thrust, lift, and drag?

100

Erathosthenes dmeasured this in 240 BC by using geometry and logic.

What is the circumference of the earth.  For 100 bonus points, what was that number?

100

This is referred to as the potential of electron flow.

What is voltage?

200

Little g is the symbol used to designate this.

What is the acceleration of gravity?

200

Mass multiplied by a velocity equals this.

What is Momentum?

200

Sound waves travel faster in this state of matter

What is solid?

200

The point at which a rocket can be balanced.

What is the center of gravity?

200

Outside sounds from a distance are commonly heard better during this time.

What is night time?

200

(200)This is the count or measurement of the number of electrons flowing through a circuit.

What is amperage?

What are amps?

300

The resulting unit of force when mass in kilograms is multiplied by meters per second squared.

What is a newton?

What are newtons?


300

Multiply mass times the radius squared to find this force.


What is rotational inertia?

What is inertia?

300

This is the distance from crest to crest or from trough to trough in a sinusoidal graph over time.

What is wavelength?

300

The point at which the aerodynamic forces focus on a model rocket.

What is the center of pressure?

300

This is a device that results from the effect of moving a coil of wire around a magnet

What is a generator?

400

This constant was determined by the torsion bar experiment of Henry Cavendish.

What is big G?

What is the gravitational constant?

How much force do spherical bodies exert on other objects?

What is the gravitational attraction of solid objects?

400

The force that is the product of Inertia imultiplied by angular velocity.

Angular momentum.

400

This term describes the height of the crests and troughs.

What is the amplitude?

What is amplitude?

400

These are the parts of a model rocket engine.

What is the casing, nozzle, fuel, delay charge, ejection charge?

400

This is a device that results from the effect of running a current through a coil of wire around an iron core.


What is an electromagnet?

500

The Bernoulli effect describes the lowering of air pressure in the vicinity of this.                        

What is a disturbance?    

What is an air current?

What is blowing air?             

500

If a figure skater reduces his or her rotational inertia by bringing the arms in, then WHAT must increase in order to conserve angular momentum?

What is angular velocity?

500

This is determined by dividing the speed of light by the wavelength.

What is the frequency?

What is frequency?

500

These are the parts of a model rocket.

What is the body, fins, launch lugs, nose cone, engine mount, shock cord, parachute/streamer/recovery device, recovery wadding?

500

This number is the speed of light in meters per second.

What is 3*10^8th?

500

This is a device that results from running a current through coils of wire that is in proximity to amagnet attached to a spinning axle.

What is an electric motor?

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