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An object is dropped from a bridge. Assuming no air resistance, what would its acceleration be as it falls
What is 10 m/s/s?
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Weight is most commonly called what force by physicists
What is the force of gravity?
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How fast is a dropped object going after 1 second?
What is 10 m/s? (MUST HAVE CORRECT UNITS)
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This is the term when you are falling at the same rate of gravity and have no weight
What is free fall?
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Newton's first law says
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The World's richest person
Who is Jeff Bezos?
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What happens to your weight if you go to a planet where g is less than 10 m/s/s
What is you get lighter? What is your weight decreases?
200
Why would a beach ball and a steel marble with the same mass hit the ground at different times if dropped from the same height on Earth
What is air resistance?
200
What is the velocity of a dropped object after it has fallen for 5 seconds?
What is 50 m/s?
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What is the formula for speed
What is distance divided by time?
200
The term for something that is moving at a constant speed with all forces balanced
What is dynamic equilibrium?
200
The name for fear of spiders
What is Arachnophobia?
300
What happens to your mass if you go to the moon
What is nothing? Or what is it does not change?
300
The reason that astronauts on the space station have no weight
What is they are in a state of free fall toward Earth?
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What is the distance that an object has fallen when it has been falling for 15 seconds?
What is 1125 meters?
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_____________is the change in velocity over time
What is acceleration?
300
I said that an object can be at rest AND in a state of constant motion
Who is Galileo?
300
This is called
What is an 8 track tape?
400
An object is dropped from a tall building. What happens to the distance that it falls for each second that it is in the air?
What is the distance that it falls increases?
400
Explain Galileo's conclusions about gravity that he made by experimenting with balls and ramps at different angles
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400
The Tesla Roadster can go from rest to 27 m/s in 1.9 seconds. Calculate the acceleration, with correct units, of this supercar
What is 14 m/s/s?
400
Sufficiently explain the difference between distance and displacement in physics
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Name three scalars
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400
Elon Musk's net worth (to within 10 billion)
What is around 160 billion? (157.2 billion)
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An object is dropped from a tall building. Describe what happens to its velocity and acceleration as it falls
What is the velocity increases and the acceleration stays constant?
500
In a real life scenario on Earth, you jump out an airplane and your velocity keeps increasing until a point where you are now falling at the same velocity (a = 0 m/s/s). This is because these two forces are now balanced...
What are the force of gravity and air resistance?
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What is the sum of these forces
What is 54 N?
500
Sufficiently explain the difference between speed and velocity in physics
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To within two years, when was the first DVD released
What is 1997?