Waves
Sun-Earth-Moon System
Energy
Forces
Extra: Computer Science!
100

This part of a wave measures the wave's length.

What is WAVELENGTH?

(I know; this one is impossible to get)

100

This planet, whose living population is approximately eight billion more than the next-highest known populated planet, is where we live.

What is... hmmm... EARTH?

100

This type of energy defines an object's potential.

WHAT IS POTENTIAL ENERGY?

100

This type of force does not require contact between items.

What is a NONCONTACT FORCE?

100

This logic gate, a "universal gate," returns True if and only if at least one of the two inputs is False.

What is the NAND GATE?

200

Of the following this wave is not a mechanical wave:

A. Sound waves

B. Radio waves

C. Shockwaves

D. Seismic waves

What are RADIO WAVES?

200

This phase of the moon occurs about 14 days after a full moon.

What is a NEW MOON?

200

This word, either, "True" or "False," describes th accuracy of the following statement:

When an object is rolled down a regular hill, it gains potential energy.

What is FALSE?

200

This force opposes the motion of objects (specifically, through air).

What is AIR RESISTANCE?

200

This symbol is commonly used to mean "not" in programming languages.

What is the EXCLAMATION POINT?

300

This type of wave's particles move parallel to the direction the energy in the wave travels.

What is a LONGITUDINAL WAVE?

300

This zodiac constellation is visible at night from late May to late June.

What is GEMINI?

300

When the energy in a shockwave increases, this wave property increases.

What is AMPLITUDE?

300

Force is directly proportional to mass and this property.

What is ACCELERATION?

300

This computer scientist, who broke World War II ciphers for the Allies, is included the the acronym CAPTCHA.

Who was ALAN TURING?

400

One of these units refers to one cycle per second.

What is HERTZ?

400

This value is Earth's axis tilt in degrees, approximated to the nearest half degree. 

What is 23.5?

400

When this factor doubles, kinetic energy quadruples.

What is VELOCITY?

400

This property is explained by Newton's first law.

What is the fact that (AN OBJECT IN MOTION STAYS IN MOTION or AN OBJECT AT REST STAYS AT REST or AN OBJECT MOVING LINEARLY STAYS MOVING LINEARLY) UNLESS AN UNBALANCED FORCE IS ACTED ON IT?

400

This search algorithm, incomparison to its common alternative, will usually find nodes closer to the origin of a graph.

What is BFS?

500

This is the sine of 42.42° to the nearest thousanth.

What is 0.675?

500

This number is the number of rotations Earth makes during one revolution around the sun from an outsider's perspective (rounded to the nearest whole number).

Trick question! What is 366?

500

This is a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in a system.

What is ENTROPY?

500

This is "the force."

What is a METAPHYSICAL AND UBIQUITOUS POWER FOUND IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE?

500

This number (or its simplified equivalent) is the first negative time value returned by Unix epoch time after the "epochalypse" of 2038.

What is -2147483648 OR -231?