Projectile Motion
This quantity describes the distance traveled per unit of time, without direction.
What is speed?
This branch of statistics describes and summarizes collected data.
What are descriptive statistics?
This term refers to the calculated likelihood that a given event will occur.
What is probability?
This MLB team ended an 86-year championship drought by winning the 2004 World Series.
What are the Boston Red Sox?
This Pixar film about a family of superheroes won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2005.
What is The Incredibles?
This is the constant acceleration acting on all falling objects near Earth, measured as 32 ft/s² or 9.8 m/s².
What is gravitational acceleration?
This type of data consists of labels or categories, such as color or type.
What is categorical (qualitative) data?
This probability method is based on known outcomes, such as coin tosses or dice rolls.
What is theoretical probability?
In 2006, this Miami Heat shooting guard was named NBA Finals MVP after leading his team to the franchise’s first title.
Who is Dwyane Wade?
This 2005 ensemble drama shocked audiences by winning the Academy Award for Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain.
What is Crash?
This term describes a moving object on which gravity is the only force acting.
What is a projectile?
This measure of central tendency is the arithmetic average of a data set.
What is the mean?
These events do not affect each other’s outcomes, such as successive coin tosses.
What are independent events?
This quarterback led the New York Giants to a shocking upset over the previously undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.
Who is Eli Manning?
Martin Scorsese finally won his first Best Director Oscar for this 2006 crime thriller set in Boston.
What is The Departed?
This component of a projectile’s motion remains constant throughout its flight (ignoring air resistance).
What is horizontal velocity?
This measure of spread is found by subtracting the lowest value from the highest value in a data set.
What is the range?
This rule states that the probability of two independent events both occurring is found by multiplying their probabilities.
What is the AND (multiplication) rule?
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, this swimmer won a record eight gold medals in a single Games.
Who is Michael Phelps?
Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for portraying the villain Anton Chigurh in this 2007 Best Picture winner.
What is No Country for Old Men?
This quantity defines the angle at which a projectile leaves its launch device relative to the horizontal.
What is the firing angle?
This statistic measures how much data values tend to vary from the mean and is calculated differently for samples versus populations.
What is standard deviation?
This theorem calculates a conditional probability by accounting for all ways an observed condition could occur.
What is Bayes’ Theorem?
In 2005, this tennis player claimed her tenth Grand Slam title by winning Wimbledon without dropping a set.
Who is Venus Williams?
Released in 2008, this superhero film featured Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning performance as the Joker.
What is The Dark Knight?