He said “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
The distance in miles traveled if driving a car, which gets 30 mpg, on $40 of gas (assuming a price of $4/gallon).
What is 300 miles
100
The speed limit of the universe.
What is the speed of light?
100
The limit of an average velocity, as the time interval gets smaller and smaller
What is instantaneous velocity?
100
The equivalent of 3.2 kilometers in miles.
What is 2 miles?
200
He was Edison's greatest rival.
Who is Tesla?
200
The distance in miles traveled if driving a car, which gets 45 mpg, on $40 of gas (assuming a price of $3.50/gallon).
What is 514 miles.
200
The Seabirds truck (going 12 mph) is racing the Hodge Podge truck (going 10 mph). They leave the starting line simultaneously. The amount of time for the trucks to be 1/2 mile apart.
What is 3.75 minutes?
200
You can transform v average into this by multiplying it by time.
What is distance?
200
The number of meters cubed equivalent to 10000 centimeters cubed.
What is 0.01 meters cubed.
300
Named after the inventor of dynamite, this prestigious award is offered in physics and several other fields.
What is the Nobel Prize?
300
The cost of traveling from Los Angeles to Las Vegas (280 miles) in a Prius (45 mpg), if gas costs $4/gallon.
What is $25?
300
To break the speed of sound you'll have to travel at 340 m/s, this value in miles/hour.
What is 765 miles/hr?
300
The instantaneous velocity at t = 4 seconds.
What is 10.9 m/s ?
300
The length of one side in meters of a cube which was made out of 1 quart.
What is .098 meters?
400
His four equations summarize all classical electromagnetic theory.
Who is [James Clerk] Maxwell ?
400
The distance traveled by light in one year (in m).
What is 9.45 x 10^15 m ?
400
Daily Double!!!
Superman would have to fly this fast to get to Alpha Centauri from Earth (4.3 light) in a decade (in m/year).
What is 4.26 x 10^15 m/y
400
Tired of v average, he derived an expression for instantaneous velocity.
Who is Newton.
400
The number of gallons that would fill a 10 m x 12 m x 3 m room
What is 95, 100 gallons?
500
Co-creator of the Calculus, he was Newton's greatest rival.
Who is Leibniz?
500
The distance around the earth in kilometers (earth's equatorial diameter is 7,926 miles)
What is 40,076 km?
500
You frantically leave your house towards Mayfield, 25 miles away, at 7:39 a.m., speeding at 70 mph, trying to arrive by 8 am. You are marked as this by the front office (late/on time).
What is late?
500
v average can equal v instantaneous in this case.
What is when velocity is constant.
500
The radius in cm of one of five circles circumscribed into a rectangle of length = 70 m