Newton
Physics
Core Concepts
Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Vocab
100

The tendency for an object at rest to remain at rest.

What is inertia?

100

The rate at which a person or object moves.

What is speed?

100

A point at which, everywhere on Earth, days and nights are almost exactly equal in length.

What is an equinox?

100

This emperor initially divided Rome into two empires.

Who is Diocletian?

100

A soldier for hire.

What is a mercenary?

200

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction is this law of motion.

What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?

200

The movement of an animal or object.

What is motion?

200

Water that falls to the Earth as rain, sleet, snow or hail.

What is precipitation?

200

This city became the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

What is Byzantium/Constantinople?

200

Someone who spoke a language the Greeks could not understand.

What is a barbarian?

300

This law states that an object at rest tends to remain at rest.

What is Newton's First Law of Motion?

300
A force that acts on another force to slow it down or stop it.

What is friction?

300

The condition of the air and sky at certain time.

What is weather?

300

This famous Emperor of the Byzantine Empire created a Book of Codes.

Who is Justinian?

300

A long poem about a hero's adventures.

What is an epic?

400

This law states that force equals mass times acceleration.

What is Newton's 2nd Law of Motion?

400

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

What is matter?

400

The average weather of a place over many years.

What is climate?

400

This woman famously persuaded her husband to stay in Constantinople and defend his empire from would-be revolutionaries.

Who is Theodora?

400

The art of public speaking.

What is oratory?

500

Forces that are equal are said to be these type of forces.

What are balanced forces?

500

A push or pull to get something to move.

What is a force?

500

Measure of how hot or cold the air is.

What is temperature?

500

This split in the church has still not been reconciled.

What is the Great Schism?

500

These bring water to cities.

What are aqueducts?