Vocabulary
A push or a pull on an object that causes it to move.
What is force?
Which simple machine has a fulcrum as the balance point?
What is a lever?
What is the rod that goes through the wheels called?
What is an axle?
Force that opposes, acts in the opposite direction as motion
What is friction?
output force / input force
What is mechanical advantage?
This animated movie's main character is a vampire voiced by Adam Sandler
What is Hotel Transylvania?
Which simple machine has a grooved wheel with a rope or a chain that goes around the wheel?
What is a pulley?
What are the metal spirals on a screw called?
What are threads?
In this movie, the main character takes care of an 8yr. old that is dropped off at his house. He has no idea what he is doing and gives the kid a pair of sunglasses that he says makes him invisible.
What is Big Daddy?
How well the machine works, and is always labeled as a percentage.
What is efficiency?
What is a simple machine?
A machine that has few or no moving parts.
Which simple machine has a slope that has one end higher than another?
What is an inclined plane?
In this movie, the main character plays golf and is trying to earn money to save his grandmother from being placed in an elderly home- assisted living.
What is a Happy Gilmore?
Type of friction applied when you have to overcome when an object is stationary.
What is static friction?
Formula for work.
What is force x distance?
When the distance between an object and the reference point changes
What is motion?
In this movie, the main character meets a woman who has amnesia (played by Drew Barrymore). They fall in love even though everyday they have to re-meet each other.
What is 50 First Dates?
This word is used to measure work.
What is a Joule?
2 types of kinetic friction.
What are rolling and sliding friction?
What is:
(force x distance)/ time
work/time
When an object moves in the same direction that the force is applied
What is work?
Which simple machine has two inclined planes joined together to cut or split things apart?
What is a wedge?
This is a rod with an inclined plane wrapped around it.
What is a screw?
Fluid friction that opposes gravity.
What is air resistance?
In this movie, the main character loves Halloween and tries to save his community members from disappearing. Has a great moral.
What is Hubie Halloween?