Velocity
Acceleration
Galileo
Newton
Pot Pouri
100
SI Unit of measure for velocity
What is meters per second
100
SI unit of measure for acceleration
What is meters per second squared
100
Born in this country
What is Italy
100
He was born in this country
What is England
100
Japanese mililtary launched these devices to strike west coast of US during WWII
What are balloon bombs
200
formula for average speed
What is distance divided by time
200
Three general ways an object can accelerate
What is speed up, slow down, change direction
200
According to some sources he dropped objects from this famous structure
What is Leaning Tower of Pisa
200
According to legend Newton thought that the force acting on the moon was the same as the force acting on what whenhe first thought of the law of gravity?
What is a falling apple
200
Country the Walrus hunters who were stranded in the Arctic for 6 years were from
What is Russia
300
Plateau on a distance-time graph means the object is doing this.
What is not moving
300
This is the accleration formula
What is final velocity =initial velocity divided by time.
300
Two objects used in demonstration on moon that supported his ideas about falling bodies
What is feather and hammer
300
What is his famous metaphor explaining his debt to past scientists
What is standing on shoulders of giants
300
Name of army officer that led raid over Tokyo during WWII
What is Doolittle
400
speed of the Earth's rotation at the equator in miles per hour
What is 1000
400
name for acceleration when changing direction. The term means "center seeking"
What is centripetal
400
He determined this though his experiment when he dropped objects from a tower.
What is that all bodies in a vacuum fall at the same rate
400
Two factors that affect strength of gravity
What is mass of objects and distance between centers
400
Only planet in our solar system to be discovered mathematically
What is Neptune
500
the speed of light in meters per second
What is 300 million meters per second
500
According to Newton what are the two factors that affect the acceleration of an object?
What is net force and mass
500
One of two pieces of equipment Galileo used to determine the rate of acceleration due to gravity
What is ramps, water clock
500
Who died the same year Newton was born?
WHo is Galileo
500
The part of a battery represented by the lemon juice
What is the electrolyte