True or False
Aristotle viewed the Earth at the center of the solar system
What is True
100
What is the formula for the Schwarzschild radius?
A. Rs=3Gm/c*c
B. Rs=2Gm/c*c
What is B. Rs=2Gm/c*c
100
What was Kepler's first law state?
What is the orbit of every planet is an ellepse with the sun at a focus
200
What college did Newton attend?
a.) Woolsthorpe
b.)Trinity
c.)Yale
b.) Trinity College
200
What does Newton's first law of motion state?
What is an object at rest tends to stay at rest until acted upon by an outside unbalanced force
200
True or False
Kepler view the Earth at the center of the solar system
What is False-the Sun
200
True of False
Black holes are holes in space in which the gravity is so strong that nothing, except light, can escape.
What is False-nothing can escape even light
200
What was Kepler's second law state?
What is a line jouning a planet and the sun sweeps out equal in equal areas during equal intervals of time
300
True or False. Newton attended Kings School at ages 12 to 17.
True
300
What does Newton's second law of motion state?
What is the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass
300
Galileo believed that the ________ was the center of the universe.
What is the Sun
300
True or False
A worm hole is a hypothetical feature of space-time that is fundamentally a shortcut through space and time.
What is True
300
What experiment by Newton explained that an object orbiting another object is in a constant freefall with just enough horizontal motion to not hit the ground?
What is Newton's Cannon
400
In what place was Newton born?
What is Woolsthorpe
400
What does Newton's third law of motion state?
What is when a force is exerted on an object by another object, then there is an equal and opposite force exerted on the object that exerted the force
400
Heliocentric is the idea that the ________ is at the center of the universe.
What is the Sun
400
What is the process in which light from a very distant source is bent around a massive object between the source object and the observer?
What is Gravitational Lensing
400
How old was Newton when he came up with the Universal Law of Gravitation?
What is 23 years old
500
What was Newton's favorite color?
What is White
500
What did the apple help Newton to understand?
What is Gravity
500
Who's view of the universe stated that the Earth was at the center of the universe and all planets and stars traveled in epicycles while maintaining their larger orbits around the Earth?
Who is Ptolemy
500
What is the equation for the gravitational force between two masses?
What is F=G*((m1*m2)/r*r)
500
What does Kepler's third law state?
What is the square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of it's orbit