An artificial body placed in orbit around a planet to collect information or communicate
What is a satellite?
This force is perpendicular to and caused by the surface an object is in contact with.
What is the normal force?
To calculate average speed you must
What is divide the total distance by the total time?
An object dropped will hit at the same time as an object fired from the same height.
What is true?
Newton discovered this type of math
What is calculus?
What is gravitational force?
This law states that force is directly related to an object's mass and its acceleration.
What is Newton's 2nd law?
What would constant speed look like on a distance v time graph?
What is a vertical line?
X and Y components don't....
What is interact?
He painted the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
Created his own glue for an artificial nose
Who is Tycho Brahe?
If the net force on an object is zero, the forces acting on it must be...
What is balanced?
What equation would you use if you had acceleration, Vo, Vf, and needed to solve for time?
What is Vf = Vo + at?
The x-component of projectiles doesn't have...
What is acceleration?
He developed the theory that space is curved or bent.
Who is Albert Einstein?
One of the first people to use a telescope. Discovered craters and mountains on the moon.
Who is Galileo?
What is the law of inertia?
An object has a negative acceleration, this means it is
What is slowing down?
Acceleration in the y-direction for a projectile or objects in free-fall
What is -9.8 m/s^2?
He figured out how to weigh the Earth.
Who is Cavendish?
The sensation of "zero-g" when there are no contact forces and you are in free fall.
What is weightlessness?
The formula to find the frictional force
What is (mu)Fn?
Another word for distance in a certain direction
What is displacement?
The variable you should solve for first in a projectile problem.
What is time?
The units for acceleration
What is m/s^2?