Problem Solving
A force of 25 N acts on a 5kg mass initially at rest for 10 seconds. What is the new velocity of the mass?
What is 50 m/s?
Sam has a mass of 80 kg on Earth. What is Sam's mass on the moon where the force of gravity is approximately 1/6-th that of Earth's?
What is 80 kg?
Galileo was excommunicated from the Catholic Church for this theory
What is heliocentrism?
(The sun is at the center of the solar system)
If the universe were to end with a "Big Crunch," this means it would collapse into what big, sucky space object?
What is a black hole?
This track number on each album is Taylor Swift's most gut-wrenching, personal song
(provided by Miss P for an easy trivia question)
What is Track 5?
A car moving at a speed of 8.0 m/s enters a highway and accelerates at a rate of 3.0 m/s2. How fast will the car be moving after it has accelerated for 56 meters?
What is 20 m/s?
This force always acts perpendicular to a surface
What is normal force?
While you may think that we only have him to thank for E = mc2, this scientist actually won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This word describes a theory in theoretical physics, a family of instruments in an orchestra, and cheese that you can easily pull apart.
What is string?
Mr Leto moved to MA from this state
What is PA?
An airplane accelerates down a runway at 3.20 m/s2 for 32.8 seconds until it finally lifts off the ground. Determine the distance traveled before takeoff.
What is 1,720 m?
This states that an object in motion remains in motion or an object at rest remains at rest unless acted on by an outside force.
What is Newton's 1st Law?
What popular astrophysicist, author of “Death By Black Hole” and host of TV’s “Cosmos”, earned a BA in Physics from Harvard University in 1980?
Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The word 'radar' is an abbreviation for this.
In this 1993 Trinidadian-Eurodance smash hit, Haddaway pleads "baby don't hurt me!"
What is "What is Love?"
This is the normal force on a 10kg object that rests on an incline that makes a 25 degree angle with the horizontal.
What is 90.6 N?
This describes a quantity that has both direction and magnitude
What is a vector
Percy Bridgman, who received his PhD in physics from Harvard in 1908, won a Nobel Prize in 1946 for work on the physics during processes with high levels of what “P” force? It is measured as the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object, per unit area of distribution.
What is pressure?
The word 'force' comes from the Latin word 'fortis', meaning:
What is strong?
This is the name of Mr Leto's cat
Who are Ash & Tycho
A force of 70 N acts on a mass of 10 kg to move it at constant velocity across a rough surface. What is the coefficient of friction between the mass and the surface?
What is 0.71?
This is the direction that centripetal acceleration goes in, relative to its circular path of motion.
What is inwards, toward the center of the circle?
In 1932, James Chadwick discovered what subatomic particle that contains mass but no charge?
What is the neutron?
In 1991, the World Wide Web was released for the first time outside of the research organization where it had been invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. What is the name of that organization, more famous today for operating the Large Hadron Collider on the border between France and Switzerland?
What is CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)?
What is a triangle?