Physics Phun
This is the name given to the science of sound.
What is "Acoustics"?
This is the area underneath the curve in a velocity-time graph.
What is "distance" or "displacement"?
What is "skin"?
An airplane traveling north at 220. meters per second encounters a 50-meters-per-second crosswind from west to east. This is the resultant and direction of the plane.
226 m/s northeast
What is the ACT or SAT?
These are three main laws of physics (distinct).
What are Newton's Laws of Motion, Coulomb's Law, Ohm's Law.
This is the difference between a scalar and a vector quantity.
What is a scalar quantity only includes magnitude while a vector quantity includes both magnitude and direction.
This is why school buses are yellow.
A duck floating on a lake oscillates up and down 5.0 times during a 10.-second interval as a periodic wave passes by. This is the frequency of the duck’s oscillations.
0.50 Hz
The number of college level credits a student must take to be considered a full-time student.
What is 12 credits?
This is the phenomenon of light hat is responsible for a CD's colorful look when exposed to light.
What is "interference"?
Finish the lyrics from this classic Disney movie:
I'm gonna be the main event
Like no king was before
I'm brushing up on looking down
"________________________"
What is "I'm working on my roar!"
This is the minimum energy required to ionize a hydrogen atom in the n = 3 state.
1.51 eV
This is the college Mrs. Strauch went to for undergrad.
What is "William & Mary"?
This is the force that allows an object submerged in fluid to rise to the top of a container.
What is the "buoyant force"?
Draw pictures of these phenomenon: constructive interference, deconstructive interference and diffraction.
Check drawings.
What is "Los Angeles Lakers, NY Knicks, Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Golden State Warriers, Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers, etc"
A 4.0-kilogram object is accelerated at 3.0 meters per second2 north by an unbalanced force. The same unbalanced force acting on a 2.0-kilogram object will accelerate this object toward the north at
a = 6.0 m/s2
Which of these schools does NOT call the tiger its mascot?
a. Princeton University
b. University of Missouri
c. Clemson University
d. University of Maine
What is the "University of Maine"? (the Bears)
This is the discovery that Albert Einstein won his first Nobel prize.
What is the "photoelectric effect"?
This is how you use your right or left-hand during magnetism problems. (Describe what each part of your hand represents).
Right hand - proton
Left hand - electron
Thumb - current/charge
Fingers - magnetic field
Palm - force
This is the study of birds.
What is "Ornithology"?
A football is thrown at an angle of 30.° above the horizontal. The magnitude of the horizontal component of the ball’s initial velocity is 13.0 meters per second. The magnitude of the vertical component of the ball’s initial velocity is 7.5 meters per second.T he football is caught at the same height from which it is thrown. Calculate the total time the football was in the air.
t = 1.53 s
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