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About Science
Motion
Newton's Laws
Forces and Momentum
Potpourri
100
A method used to test a hypothesis
What is an experiment?
100
Distance divided by time
What is speed?
100
He developed Newton's Laws of Motion (and Calculus!)
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
The force that prevents solid objects from moving through each other
What is the support (or normal) force?
100
The current principal of Shrewsbury High School
Who is Mr. Todd Bazydlo?
200
The SI unit of mass
What is kilogram
200
The unit for acceleration
What is meters per second squared? (m/s^2)
200
The net force needed to accelerate a 3,000 kg car by 4 m/s^2
What is 12,000 N?
200
The momentum of a 20 kg dog running with a speed of 7 m/s
What is 140 kg m/s?
200
The number of Physics teachers at SHS
What is six?
300
The variable which changes as a result of the independent variable
What is the dependent variable?
300
The acceleration of a thrown object at its highest point
What is 10 (or 9.8) m/s^2 downward?
300
The tendency of an object to resist changes in its state of motion
What is inertia? What is Newton's first Law
300
The product of force times time
What is impulse?
300
The author of your Physics textbook
Who is Paul Hewitt?
400
A quantity measured with both magnitude and direction
What is a vector?
400
The speedometer of a car tells you the magnitude of this kind of velocity
What is instantaneous velocity?
400
Why don't action and reaction forces cancel each other out!
Action reaction forces act between two objects. What is Newton's Third Law?
400
The kind of collision where objects move separately before and after
What is elastic collision?
400
The three Physics teachers who are new this year to Shrewsbury
Who are Mr. Collins, Mr. Doherty, and Mr. Sousa?
500
The metric prefix that means x1,000,000
What is Mega-?
500
On a velocity versus time graph, the slope represents this
What is acceleration?
500
He, not Newton, first deduced the concept of inertia
Who is Galileo?
500
The condition of a system in which all forces are balanced
What is equilibrium?
500
The year Shrewsbury High School opened
What is 2002?