Forces
Newton's Laws
GRAAAAAVITY
Energy
Earth, Moon, and Sun
FINAL Jeopardy
100

A push or a pull.

What is a Force

100

An object wont stop unless acted on by an unbalanced force because of this property.

What is inertia

100

Anything that has this has gravity.

What is mass

100

The energy of motion.

What is kinetic energy

100

This causes day and night.

What is Earth's rotation on its axis

200

A unit of force

What is a Newton

200

These are TWO ways to increase the acceleration of an object.

What are 1) Increase the force on the object, & 

2) Decrease the mass of the object

(Newton's 2nd Law)

200
These are the determining factors of the gravitational attraction between two objects.

What are mass and distance

200

When you pull back on a rubber band, it now has this (specifically).

What is elastic potential energy

200

The phase of the moon that occurred before the phase shown below.

What is a full moon

300

A vector describes these aspects of a force.

What are magnitude and direction?

300

An object with a mass of 100kg slams into an object with a mass of 1kg.  The object exerts 100N of force onto the 1kg object.  What amount of force does the 1kg object exert on the 100kg object?

What is 100N? (Newton's 3rd Law)

300

______________ will change depending on where you are in the universe, but _______________ will remain constant regardless of where you go.  

What are weight and mass

300

This is a unit of energy.

What is a Joule.

300

This is the season that you would expect in Dublin, CA 3-months from when the picture was taken below.

What is Spring

400

When not using vectors, these can be used to denote the direction of vector values.

What are + and - symbols

400

A car with a mass of 1000kg accelerates at 2m/s rightward. The friction force acting on the car has a magnitude of 200N.  What is the net force acting on the car?  Be specific!

What is 1,800N rightward! (+1,800N)

400

When investigating the attraction between two objects, doubling the mass of both objects will do this to their gravitational attraction? (specifics required)

What is quadruple their attraction

400

Energy cannot be _______________ nor ______________.

What are created, destroyed

400

The type of eclipse shown here.

What is a lunar eclipse

400

YOU MAY WAGER FROM 0 TO YOUR CURRENT AMOUNT OF POINTS!  ENTER YOUR WAGER NOW!

YOU MAY WAGER FROM 0 TO YOUR CURRENT AMOUNT OF POINTS!  ENTER YOUR WAGER NOW!

500

A Newton is equivalent to what unit that is made of a combination of units?

What is a kg * m/s2

500

A boat is traveling at 100kph, and the pilot shuts down the engine.  In what direction is the boat still accelerating?

What is in the direction opposite of motion.

500

Object 1 and Object 2 are at a distance of 1.0 million km from each other.  Then, Object 1 moves away to a distance of 10.0 million km from each other.  Gravitational attraction is affected in what way?

Gravitational attraction DECREASES by 100 times.  

500

A baseball is mid-flight towards another player.  List ALL forms of energy happening that include the ball.

What are kinetic, potential, thermal

500

Standing on this latitude line at Noon during Dublin, CA's Winter Solstice will result in a lot of intense sunlight on the top of your head. (Name AND degrees of latitude)

What is the Tropic of Capricorn, 23.5 degrees South of the Equator.

500

A 500kg roller coaster car climbs to the top of a frictionless track.  At the bottom of the track, the coaster car is traveling at 15m/s.  How tall was the hill?

What is 11.5m

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