Physics
Dimensional Analysis
Newton's Laws
Motion Equations- Kinematics
Significant Figures
100

All of Physics can be divided into two large categories.

What are Classical and Modern Physics?

100

How many Kilometers are in 100 cm?

What is 0.001 kg?

100

In the field of Physics, the branch of classical mechanics that studies of the causes of motion or the study of forces

What is Dynamics?

100

The branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of objects without consideration of the cause of motion.  

What is Kinematics?

100

The number of significant digits in this measurement- 87.990 cm

What is 5?

200

This major scientific conclusion uses concise language to describe a generalized pattern in nature, often expressed in the form of a single mathematic equation.

What is a Law?

200

There are this many meters in 516.3 micrometers. 

What is 0.0005163 m?

200

F = ma

What is Newton's 2nd Law?

200

The change in position divided by the time elapsed

∆x/∆t

What is velocity?

200

The number of significant digits in this measurement-15,450.0

What is 6?

300

The SI unit for time in Physics.

What is a second (s)?

300

Assuming that 1 meter equals 3.281 feet, this amount of meters are in 300.0 feet.

What is 91.44 m?

300

Whenever one body exerts a force on a second body, the first body experiences a force that is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force that it exerts.

What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?

300

-9.80 m/s2

what is acceleration due to gravity?

300

Convert 2.3 x 102 to standard notation.

What is 230.?

400

A series of steps to collect information and answer a question.  

What is The Scientific Method? 

400

If a marathon runner averages 9.5 mi/h, it will take him this long to run a 26.2 mile marathon.

What is 2.8 hours?

400

Suppose that the net external force (push minus friction) exerted on a lawn mower is 51 N parallel to the ground. The mass of the mower is 24 kg. The resulting acceleration will be this.

What is 2.1 m/s?

400

This measurement is equivalent to finding the slope of a velocity-time graph.

What is acceleration?

400

  The rules for mathematical operations of significant figures in multiplication and division.  

What is the result for mathematical operations should be rounded off so as to have the same number of significant figures as the measurement with the least number of significant figures?

500

The only case in which magnitude of displacement and distance traveled are exactly the same. 

What is "when there has NOT been a change in direction"

500

You determine that the weight of a 5.0 pound bag has an uncertainty of +/- 0.4 pounds.  The Percent Uncertainty according to the equation is 

What is 8.0%?

500

In a Physics lab, Ernesto and Amanda apply a 34.5 N rightward force to a 4.52-kg cart to accelerate it across a horizontal surface at a rate of 1.28 m/s/s. This is the friction force acting upon the cart.

What is 28.7 N, left?

500

You throw a ball straight down from an apartment balcony to the ground below. The ball has an initial velocity 6.00 m/s, directed downward, and hits the ground 3.50 s after it is released. This value is the height of the balcony.  

What is 81.0m?

500

This is one of the rules in determining how many significant figures are in a measurement.

What is 

  • All non-zero numbers ARE significant. ...

  • Zeros between two non-zero digits ARE significant. ...

  • Leading zeros are NOT significant. ...

  • Trailing zeros to the right of the decimal ARE significant. ...

  • Trailing zeros in a whole number with the decimal shown ARE significant.