Those Famous Dead Dudes
Define This!
Conversion Consmersion
Define That!
I'm cool cause I do math
100
This gentleman worked in Florence, Italy.
Who is Galileo?
100
Propositions supported by a great deal of evidence.
What are facts?
100
1.85 ft/s [hint: convert to MKS units]
What is 0.564 m/s in ft/s?
100
An informed prediction about what will happen in a certain circumstance.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This distance can be calculated with a time of 4.73 s and velocity of 54 m/s.
What is 11 m?
200
This astronomer developed the Laws of Planetary Motion
Who is Kepler?
200
Each of the planetary orbits is an ellipse with the sun at one focus.
What is Kepler's First Law of Planetary Motion?
200
217.6 ng [hint: convert to MKS units]
What is 2.176 x 10^-10 kg in ng?
200
The "fine-ness" of a measurement.
What is precision?
200
This acceleration can be determined from an initial velocity of 54.2 m/s, a final velocity of 12.8 m/s, and a time of 5.27 minutes.
What is -0.131 m/s^2?
300
This man was tried for heresy in 1633.
Who is Galileo?
300
For every action force, there is an equal and opposite reaction force.
What is Newton's Third Law?
300
52 mph [hint: convert to MKS units]
What is 23 m/s in mph?
300
This is when an object will keep doing whatever it is doing unless a force action on it.
What is inertia?
300
This force causes a truck of 11,655 lbs to accelerate at 26.0 m/s^2.
What is 138,000 N?
400
This man formed his famous theory in 1915.
Who is Einstein? [theory of relativity]
400
This planet is directly after the Sun in the Ptolemic model.
What is Mars?
400
476 cm^3 [hint: convert to MKS units]
What is 0.000476 m^3 in cm^3?
400
This sphere is directly after the Saturn in the Ptolemic model.
What is The Firmament?
400
The potential energy in a ball 0.234 miles above ground with a mass of 2378 ng.
What is 0.00877 J?
500
This scientist was the first to propose a heliocentric planetary model.
Who is Copernicus?
500
The energy contained in an object that is stretched or compressed.
What is elastic potential energy?
500
36 mg/cm^3 [hint: convert to MKS units]
What is 36 kg/m^3 in mg/cm^3?
500
It accounts for and explains most or all of the related facts.
What is one primary characteristic of a theory?
500
The velocity of an acorn with a mass of 1.020 g and kinetic energy of 0.05578 J?
What is 10.46 m/s?
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