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100

Put simply, this is a pull or a push.

What is a force?

100

Johnny has a bottle of dish soap that weighs 19 kg. If he throws the bottle at David at 2.5 m/s2. how many Newtons of force is he going to be hit with? Your answer may be accurate by up to three significant figures.

47.5 Newtons.

100

Remember Johnny Appleseed? He may have indirectly helped this physicist in his research into the phenomenon of gravity.

Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

100

This is represented by an a.

What is acceleration?

200

This is accepted as the amount of acceleration caused by the gravity of Earth. You may be accurate by up to two significant figures.

What is 9.8 m/s2?

200

Fouad Fouad is on his morning jog, and is running at 5 m/s. Suddendly, he hears hit Playboi Carti song Magnolia, and speeds up to 20 m/s in 2 seconds. What was his acceleration? Your answer may be accurate by up to two significant figures.

7.5 m/s2.

200

Known for their immense research into radiation, this physicist was the first and only person to win TWO Nobel Prizes in separate scientific fields

Who is Marie Curie?

200

This is represented by an uppercase N.

What are Newtons/force?

300
This is an attribute of an object that controls how easy it is to resist a change in acceleration.

What is inertia?

300

Two bros are chilling in a hot tub 1.5 meters away from each other. Starting from rest, one of these bros proceeds to swim to the other bro at 0.5 m/s2. What was his final velocity when he reached his bro? Your answer may be accurate by up to three significant figures.

1.22 m/s OR sqrt(1.5) m/s.

300

Considered the founding father of modern physics, this physicist was very controversial in his time due to their push of the heliocentric model of the solar system.

Who is Galileo Galilei?

300

This is represented by either Vor V0.

What is initial velocity?

400

This is the state an object is in when the sum of all net forces acting on it is zero.

What is equilibrium?

400

According to fans, the DeLorean takes approximately 88 seconds to go from rest to the required speed of 88 mi/h (39.33 m/s) to time travel. How far would the DeLorean actually have to travel in order to travel through time? Your answer may be accurate by up to six significant figures.

1730.52 meters.

400

This physicist has the heaviest known element named after them, and is the second person to have had an element named after them while they were alive.

Who is Yuri Oganessian?

400

This is represented by an uppercase Sigma (Σ).

What is the sum of all quantities in a set?

500

This is a force that does not make contact with an object, such as gravity or magnetism.

What is a field force?

500

The Steel Curtain's highest drop is from 62 m long, and ends at a velocity of 34 m/s. Assuming you were starting from rest at the peak of the drop, how long would it take for you to finish your descent? Your answer may be accurate by up to three significant figures.

3.65 seconds.

500

This man is commonly said to have been the first ever physicist.

Who is Al-Biruni?

500

This is represented by either a lowercase eta (η) or a lowercase mu (μ).

What is viscosity?