Free Fall
Sound Waves
Physics Formulas
Thermal Physics
The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Light
100

What is Free Fall?

What is an object falling due to a planet's gravity?

100

What is the quietest sound a human can hear called?

What is the Threshold of Hearing?

100

What is the Weight Equation?

Weight = Mass x Gravity

100

What are the Three units of Temperature?

What is Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin?

100

What are all of the types of waves on the Electromagnetic Spectrum of Light?

What are Radiowaves, Microwaves, Infared(IR), Visible, Ultraviolet(UV), XRays, and Gamma Rays?

200
Which Object will hit the ground first in a vacuum?

a 550 gram weight
a 1 gram Feather

Both objects will land at the same time in a vacuum.

200

When does a sound wave have a high pitch?

A: When the wave has a low frequency.
B: When the wave has a high frequency.
C: Frequency doesn't have an effect on pitch.

B: When the wave has a high frequency.

200

What is the Equation for Mechanical Energy?

Mechanical Energy = Potential Energy + Kinetic Energy

200

What is Absolute Zero?

What is 0 Kelvin or -273°C?

200

What is a Photon?

What is a particle of light that has the properties of a wave?

300

True or False: Earth's Free Fall Rate is about 10 m/s

True

300

True or False: Sound NEEDS a Medium to travel.

True

300

What is the Equation for Acceleration?

Acceleration = (Velocity(final) - Velocity(Initial))/Time

300

What are the three ways heat transfers?

What is Conduction, Convection, and Radiation?
300

What is the Speed of Light?

What is 186,000 Miles/Second or 300,000 Kilometers/Second?

400

True or False: An object's speed is increasing when it is thrown up into the air.

False

400

What is the hearing range for humans?

What is 20 - 20,000 Hz?

400

What is the Efficiency Equation? 

eff(%) = (Output Energy/Input Energy) x 100%

400

True or False: Heat transfers from Coldest to Warmest.

False

400

What are all of the colors of Visible Light?

What is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet?

500

When graphing an object's position/time when thrown up into the air, what is the shape of the graph called?  

What is a parabola?

500
What is the Doppler Effect?

What is a wave phenomenon that causes a higher pitch when it is moving towards an observer, and a lower pitch when moving away from an observer?

500

What is the equation to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit?

°F = ((9/5) x °C) + 32

500

What is Thermal Expansion?

What is substances expanding when being heated, and contracting when being cooled?

500

Which of the following waves has the shortest wavelength/highest frequency?

A: Ultraviolet(UV)
B: Yellow Light on the Visible Light Spectrum
C: X-Rays
D: Infrared(IR)

C: X-Rays