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It is the definition of displacement
What is "change in position"?
200
This is the thing that changes the motion of an object.
What is a Force?
200
The unit for the force of gravity.
What is a Newton?
200
The mass of an object that is traveling at acceleration of 20m/s2 and a force of 10,000N
What is 500kg?
m=F/a=(10,000)/(20)
m = 500kg
200
This is the most abundant element in the universe.
What is Hydrogen?
200
The element represented by the Bohr atomic model shown here.
What is Helium?
200
The concept of gravity was discovered by this famous physicist
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
This is the formula to calculate acceleration
What is
("velocity")/("time")
400
The equation for total (net) force
What is FNet = ma?
400
The symbol for the frequency of an object travelling in a circular path.
What is f?
400
The time it takes a car to accelerate from 0 m/s to 20 m/s over a distance of 100 meters.
What is 10 seconds?
400
This is a material that will carry or conduct an electrical charge.
What is a conductor?
400
This organelle is sometimes called the "powerhouse of the cell."
What are mitochondria?
400
This former alum has been a life skills teacher, the dean of students, and the head of the upper school.
Who is Anthony Locke?
600
The average velocity, according to this position-time graph, over 4 seconds.
What is 5.0 m/s?
600
This is the force that is responsible for giving you a sensation of how heavy you feel.
What is the Normal Force?
600
A greek letter that refers to the coefficient of friction
What is mu ?
600
The distance a car travelled if it drove at 40 m/s for 30 minutes
What is 72 km?
D = v*t = 40 m/s * 1800 s
D= 72,000 m = 72 km
600
This solar satellite's planetary status was revoked in 2006. It was downgraded to a classification of "dwarf planet." Many people are still upset about this.
What is a Pluto?
600
This type of transport across a membrane is being depicted by the diagram shown here.
What is osmosis?
600
The name of the famous cat who was both dead and alive at the same time in a box.
800
According to this displacement-time graph, if "to the right" is "positive" and "to the left" is "negative," the number of seconds the object is moving to the right.
What is 5 seconds?
800
This propery of matter would not change if you were on the moon.
What is mass?
(or what is inertia)
800
It's value on Earth is 9.8 N/kg
What is the gravitational field constant, g?
800
If the surface is sloped at an angle of 35o, The Net Force acting on the book is this number of Newtons.
What is 2 Newton?
800
This is the temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit are equal.
What is -40o?
800
The region of Earth's interior colored in red in the diagram shown here.
What is the mantle?
800
His favorite things are trucks, dinosaurs and Miranda. He is sometimes referred to as Taco.
Who is Xander?
1000
This is the equation that defines the relationship between Mass and Time for this graph.
What is
mass = (0.2)/(sqrt(time))
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This is the type of friction when an object is being pushed, but not sliding across another surface.
What is Static Friction?
1000
The units for the gravitational constant G
What is a Nm2/kg2?
1000
Roadrunner has a mass of 50 kg and Eagle has a mass of 60 kg. They are 5 m apart. The force of their attraction is this number:
What is 0.000000008 N (or 8 x 10-9 N)
(they really don't like each other!)
1000
The acronym "laser" stands for this.
Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation
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Diagrams such as the one shown here are often used to help explain Einstein's theory of this phenomenon in physics?
What is gravity?
1000
The names of these two hooligans.
Who are Ajay and Audin Barstow?