Vocabulary
A disturbance in space and time that carries energy from on place to another.
What is a wave?
In any interaction, the total momentum of the object involved is conserved.
What is the law of conservation of momentum?
He discovered the three laws of motion, the law of universal gravitation, and wrote Principia Mathematica.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Convert 6.0 inches into centimeters.
What is 15 cm?
What is the MKS unit for mass in physics?
What is a kilogram?
The lowest temperature theoretically possible where all molecular movement ceases.
What is absolute zero?
An object submerged in any fluid experiences a buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.
What is the principle of buoyancy?
The German physicist who proposed the general theory of relativity in 1915.
Who is Albert Einstein?
How many millimeters are in a meter?
What is 1000 millimeters?
How far will a horse gallop if it is traveling at 12.8 m/s for 66 seconds?
What is 840 m?
A scientific statement supported by a great deal of evidence that is correct as far as we know.
What is a scientific fact?
Which one of Newton's Laws applies best to this scenario: a car on cruise control
What is Newton's first law of motion? (car is moving at a constant speed)
The Italian physicist who invented the mercury barometer in 1643, but was unable to explain how it worked.
Who is Evangelista Torricelli?
How many liters are in a cubic meter?
What is 1000 liters?
A 8500-gram bucket of paint is sitting on top of a ladder that is 1.7 m above the ground. What is the EG of the bucket?
What is 140 J?
The ratio of mass to volume for a substance; a physical property that describes the amount of mass in a given volume.
What is density?
Fill in the blanks:
Each of the planetary orbits is an _________, with the ______ at one _________.
What is ellipse, sun, focus
The Russian chemist who discovered and published the first periodic table of elements in 1869.
Who was Dmitri Mendeleev?
Convert 24.2 mph into m/s. (Note: 1609 m = 1 mile)
What is 10.8 m/s?
The density of germanium is 5.323 g/cm³. A small sample of germanium has a mass of 16.751 g. Determine its volume in cm³.
What is 3.147 cm³?
A pressure measurement based on atmospheric pressure as a reference so that atmospheric pressure equals zero, and the measured pressure is the net pressure above or below atmospheric pressure.
What is gauge pressure?
Apply Newton's 2nd law of motion to this scenario:
How much force is needed to move a 1750 kg car to an acceleration of 1.50 m/s²?
What is 2630 Newtons?
The early Greek mathematician and geographer who made a very accurate estimation of the earth's circumference in ≈ 240 BC.
Who is Eratosthenes?
Convert 55°F into Celsius.
What is 12.8°C?
If a dog whistle emits an ultrasonic tone at 28.2 kHz, what is the period of the wave in milliseconds?
What is 0.0355 ms?