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This is the force due to gravity.
What is Weight?
This man, who shares his name with a unit for Force, is one of the individuals credited with the modern study of calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This company founded by Elon Musk hopes to have crewed spaceflight to Mars in the near future.
What is SpaceX?
This 2015 film follows Matt Damon's attempt to return to Earth after being stranded on a neighboring planet.
What is The Martian?
This German physicist is likely most well known for his theory of general relativity, the photo-electric effect, and his mass-energy equivalence (E=mc2).
Who is Albert Einstein?
This is the stronger type of friction.
What is static friction?
One of the first Physics textbooks is attributed to this ancient Greek philosopher and scientist.
Who is Aristotle?
This country was the first to land a manned mission on the moon.
What is the United States?
This 2014 flim starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, and Matt Damon explores the concept relativity in space travel (time passes relative to how you move throughout space).
What is Interstellar?
This physicist was one of the lead scientists on the Manhattan Project, the US project to build an atomic weapon. He was also the main figure in a 2023 Christopher Nolan movie.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
When you pull a sled by a rope, the force in the rope would be an example of this type of force.
What is Tension?
Coordinate systems are sometimes referred to by an alternative name derived from the name of this individual who first published a description for their use.
Who is Rene Descartes?
Humans first landed on the moon in this decade.
What is 1960's? (1969)
This 2017 film documents the lives of three of the first African-American women to work for NASA.
What is Hidden Figures?
This Polish scientist is credited as being the first to propose that the center of the universe was not Earth, but in fact the Sun.
Who is Copernicus?
This is the type of energy an object has due to stretching or compression. FULL NAME FOR CREDIT!
What is Elastic Potential Energy?
While Newton is often credited with the development of calculus, this other individual, a contemporary of Newton's, published similar work around the same time as Newton. He is thus credited as also being one of the fathers of calculus as a result.
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
The missions that led to a human crew landing on the moon was named after this Greek god of the sun.
What is Apollo?
This 2014 film starring Eddie Redmayne documents the life of Stephen Hawking.
What is the Theory of Everything?
This Danish physicist made tremendous contributions to the our understanding of the structure of atoms. He received the Nobel Prize in 1922.
Who is Niels Bohr?
Energy is conserved within a system, except when this occurs.
What is non-conservative work?
The world's first nuclear reactor was built in this decade.
What is the 1940's? (1942)
This first satellite of human origin was created and launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957.
What is Sputnik?
This 1995 film starring Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon follows an ill-fated, real-life NASA mission to the moon.
What is Apollo 13?
Although she was born in Poland, this scientist conducted most of her work on radioactivity in France. She won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
Who is Marie Curie?