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Scientist trivia
Units of measure
100
A passenger without a seat belt flies through the windshield after the car strikes a concrete barrier.
What is an example of the first law?
100
The friction force between a box and the floor is 20 N, the applied force is 60 N.
What would have a net force of 40 N?
100
Your left hand hitting your right.
What is the force pair to your right hand hitting your left?
100
The scientists that first theorized that the earth was not the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
100
The standard unit of length in physics.
What is the meter?
200
The moon exerts the same force on the earth that the earth exerts on the moon.
What is an example of the third law?
200
A 80 Kg skydiver encountering 300 N of air resistance.
What would have a net force of about 500 N downward?
200
A box pushing against the floor.
What is the force pair to the floor pushing on the box?
200
Won the nobel prize for the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
Standard unit of mass in physics?
What is the kilogram?
300
A rocket uses its engines to get to orbital speed in low earth orbit.
What is an example of the second law?
300
A box being pushed by 60 N of applied force along a surface with 60 N of frictional force.
What is an object with a zero net force?
300
The earth pulling on the sun.
What is the pair to the sun pulling on the earth?
300
Invented the fluorescent bulb as a quick fix to Edison being a jerk about losing the contract to light up the worlds fair.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
300
A derived unit that measures force.
What is a newton?
400
A hockey puck sliding across a frictionless surface.
What is an example of first law?
400
This causes a net force of 75 newtons when the object encounters 80 newtons of friction.
What is an applied force of 155 N?
400
The air pushing on the birds wings.
What is the pair to the wings pushing on the air?
400
Known for inventing calculus, quantifying gravity, and three big laws that we spend a lot of time trying to teach...
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
400
Used to measure time in physics.
What is a second?
500
The reason that both cars are damaged when one is motionless and is "hit" by the other.
What is third law?
500
The mass of an object that has a net force of 75 newtons upward and 500 newtons of tension force.
What is 42.5 Kg?
500
The train car pulling on the engine.
What is pair to the train engine pulling on the car?
500
Headed up the Manhattan project and spent the last part of his life ridden with guilt.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
500
Meters/second.
What is the unit of velocity?