Waves
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Vector Kinematics
Films of 2025
Dynamics
100

This variable for a wave stays the same regardless of the medium it's travelling through.

What is the frequency?

100

A popular collectible often depicted alongside a matcha latte or Dubai chocolate.

What is a Labubu?

100

Vectors always include this; scalars always don't.

What is direction?

100

The marketing campaign for this 2025 musical sequel involved copious amounts of pink and green, representing two rival witches.

What is Wicked: For Good?

100

Newton's Second Law of Motion, phrased as an equation.

What is net force equals mass times acceleration?

200

These equations describe the speed and angle of a refracting wave.

What is Snell's Law?

200

The Grinch is nearly caught stealing Christmas by this Who down in Whoville. 

Who is Cindy Lou Who?

200

Moving left, then right by the same amount results in your overall displacement being this value.

What is 0?

200

This video game adaptation gained a reputation as a nightmare for movie theatre employees, especially the "chicken jockey" scene.

What is A Minecraft Movie?

200

Materials have two coefficients of friction.  This one is generally lower.

What is the coefficient of kinetic friction?

300

This form of wave can be thought of as a repeating pattern of compression and rarefaction.

What is a longitudinal wave?

300

If you ask a child, they might say this is the sound a train makes.

What is "choo-choo"?

300

A coin is thrown up in the air with an initial velocity of 6.8 m/s [up].  Its velocity 1.0 s later is...

What is 3.0 m/s [down]?

300

Despite the film itself suggesting that nobody cares about dinosaurs anymore, this movie was the fifth highest-grossing of 2025.

What is Jurassic World Rebirth?

300

The amount of force required to lift a 10 kg object off the ground is approximately this value.

What is 100 N?

400

A wave travelling at 20 m/s with a frequency of 5 Hz must have this wavelength.

What is 4 m?

400

This species is known for hiding its eggs in other birds' nests, a behaviour known as "brood parasitism".

What is a cuckoo?

400

After accelerating from rest at 2.0 m/s2 for 3.0 seconds, an object has travelled this distance.

What is 9.0 m?

400

This highest-grossing superhero movie of 2025 involves the titular character travelling to another dimension to save a super-dog and a green baby.

What is Superman?

400

A force of 37 N is being applied to an object at an angle 30 degrees above the horizontal.  You can calculate the x-component of the force using this equation.

What is 37 x sin 30?

500

The speed of light in water, in which n=1.33.

What is 2.25 x 108 m/s?

500

A slang term for a strike action where large numbers of police officers take sick leave on the same day.

What is Blue Flu?

500

The displacement of an object that moves 1.0 m north, then 1.0 m west must have this displacement.

What is 1.4 m [NW]

500

This 2025 sequel is now both the highest-grossing non-English film and the highest-grossing animated movie of all time.

What is Ne Zha 2?

500

This is the maximum possible value for the force of static friction acting on an object with a mass of 30. kg resting on a surface with μs = 0.40

What is 120 N?