Mechanics
Frame of reference
What is the perspective from which movement is observed?
Potential
What is energy that is stored?
Inclined plane
What is a ramp?
Newton's 1st Law (aka the Law of Inertia)
What is "Everything at rest will stay at rest and everything in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force?"
Gravity
What is the force that is between all masses?
Ballistics
What is the study of objects moving through air?
Kinetic
What is energy that is in motion?
Screw
What is an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder?
Newton's 2nd Law
What is force equals mass times acceleration?
Centripetal
What is a force that happens in a circle?
Magnitude
What is the size or measurement of something that can be represented by the length of a vector?
Energy
What is the ability to do work, which is moving an object using force over a distance?
Lever
What is a solid bar that rotates about a fixed point?
Newton's 3rd Law
What is "Every action has an equal but opposite reaction?"
Bouyancy
What is a force exerted by liquids and gases equal to the mass of displaced fluids?
Hooke's Law
What is it called when a spring stretches or compresses a distance proportional to the force applied to it?
Dampening
What is the process of energy loss causing oscillations to die down?
Block and tackle
What is a system of pulleys with one fixed and one or more movable pulleys?
1st law of thermodynamics
What is "Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes forms?"
Friction
What is a force that opposes motion between 2 surfaces?
Resistance
What is weight moved by a lever?
Efficiency
What is the amount of energy a machine puts out compared to the amount of energy put in?
Spur gear
What is a gear system that connects parallel gear shafts?
Law of Ellipses
What is Kepler's 1st law of planetary motion?
Tensile strength
What is the force that a string can withstand before breaking?