Newton's Laws
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Potpourri
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This is Newton's Law that explains why it is important to buckle up when traveling in an automobile
What is Newton's First Law?
100
This is the value we use to describe how many times an object travels in a circle every second.
What is angular speed?
100
This is the variable that represents speed.
What is v?
100
This is the equation for the Force of Weight.
What is w = mg?
100
This is the field of Physics that describes HOW objects move.
What is Kinematics?
200
This is Newton's Law that explains why if you bump into something, you fall backwards
What is Newton's Third Law?
200
A ball on the end of a 2 meter string goes around in a circle with a velocity of 18 meters per second. This is its angular speed.
What is 9 rad/sec?
200
This is the variable that represents velocity.
What is v?
200
A 20 kg object weighs this much on Earth.
What is 196 Newtons?
200
This is the field of Physics that describes WHY objects move.
What is Dynamics?
300
This is Newton's Law that explains why if you double the amount of Force acting on an object, you double its acceleration.
What is Newton's Second Law?
300
A ball on the end of a 2 meter string goes around in a circle with a velocity of 18 meters per second. This is its centripetal acceleration.
What is 162 m/sec/sec?
300
This is the variable that represents acceleration.
What is a?
300
A 20 kg object weighs this much on the moon. (acceleration due to gravity is 1.67 m/sec/sec on the moon)
What is 32.67 Newtons?
300
An elephant has a mass of 4220 kg. This is the way to write this number in scientific notation.
What is 4.22 x 10^3 kg?
400
This is Newton's Law that explains that if the distance between objects triples, it experiences only 1/9 of the gravitational force.
What is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation?
400
A ball on the end of a 2 meter string goes around in a circle with a velocity of 18 meters per second. This is its centripetal force, if the ball has a mass of 0.4 kg.
What is 64.8 Newtons?
400
This is the variable that represents displacement.
What is x?
400
This is the reason the force of weight is much lower on the moon compared to Earth.
What is Moon's mass is much smaller than Earth's?
400
If a 45 N force of gravity attracts two objects, this would be the new force if the mass of one object is doubled.
What is 90 N?
500
Newton's Laws applied to satellites explains that gravity provides the ___________ needed for an object to travel in a circular orbit.
What is Centripetal Force? ...also acceptable would be "centripetal acceleration" because the force causes velocity to continually change direction by turning the object back towards the center of the Earth
500
A large Ferris Wheel goes around once. It has completed this many radians of rotation.
What is 2π radians?
500
This is the variable that represents VERTICAL displacement.
What is y?
500
The equation for the force of weight is most similar to this important Law from Sir Isaac Newton.
What is Newton's Second Law? just like F = ma, Fw = mg
500
This is Mr. Nestojko's definition of Physics.
What is "the study of the structure of matter, the behavior of matter, and the forces of nature"?
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