- Whose goal was to create a system that would classify almost all existing knowledge of the physical world?
Your answer:
Aristotle
Galileo
Archimede
Bernoulli
- What is speed at any given instant?
Your answer:
inertia
velocity
force
instantaneous
- Who challenged Aristotle’s ideas on motion and introduced experimentation?
Your answer:
Galileo
Newton
Archimede
Plato
- What is distance measure by time?
Your answer:
inertia
power
speed
momentum
- What is the state of fall under the influence of only gravity and free from air resistance?
Your answer:
speed
free-fall
momentum
velocity
- What is speed with a specific direction?
Your answer:
power
inertia
momentum
velocity
- Which of Newton’s laws of Motion states that every material object continues in it’s state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it?
Your answer:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
- Who formulated and proved the law of universal gravitation?
Your answer:
Boyle
Galileo
Newton
Bernoulli
- Which of Newton’s laws of Motion states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on the object, is in the direction of the net force, and is inversely proportional to the mass of the object?
Your answer:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
- What is the product of the mass of an object and its velocity?
Your answer:
free-fall
density
momentum
speed
- Which of Newton’s laws of Motion states whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts and equal and opposite force on the first?
Your answer:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
- What is the mover of substance?
Your answer:
inertia
energy
gravity
force
- What are the two forms of mechanical energy?
Your answer:
wind/hydroelectric
inertia/density
solar/geothermal
potential/kinetic
- What kind of mechanical energy would be found in the chemical energy in fuels?
Your answer:
geothermal
kinetic
potential
nuclear
- What kind of mechanical energy would be a car moving along a road?
Your answer:
potential
wind
hydroelectric
kinetic
- What type of energy is the most concentrated form of usable energy found in uranium and plutonium?
Your answer:
nuclear
geothermal
solar
wind
- What type of energy comes from the sun?
Your answer:
wind
geothermal
solar
nuclear
- What type of energy is an offspring of the heat generated by radioactivity in the Earth’s interior?
Your answer:
geothermal
wind
solar
nuclear
- What is solar energy that that has already been converted to mechanical energy?
Your answer:
potential
hydroelectric
wind
geothermal
- What kind of energy is predominantly limited to areas of volcanic activity?
Your answer:
nuclear
wind
solar
geothermal
- What is any object that moves through the air or space under the influence of gravity?
Your answer:
satellite
trajectory
inertia
projectile
- What is a trajectory?
Your answer:
the distance an object moves
a constantly moving object
the path of a projectile
a slow moving projectile
- What component of a projectile’s motion is like a bowling ball’s motion along an alley?
Your answer:
horizontal
thrust
vertical
lift
- What component of a projectile’s motion is like a ball dropped in mid air?
Your answer:
horizontal
lift
thrust
vertical
- What is a projectile that falls around the Earth and not into it?
Your answer:
weather
pollution
cloud
satellite
- What is the measure of compactness?
Your answer:
density
massiveness
weight
inertia
- What is the measure of how much mass is squeezed into an object within a given space?
Your answer:
density
weight
massiveness
inertia
- What has a greater density- 1 kg of water -10 kg of water or 100 kg of water?
Your answer:
100 kg
1 kg
all the same
10 kg
- What two factors does pressure exerted by liquids depend upon?
Your answer:
density and mass
inertia and mass
weight and depth
density and depth
- What is defined as the force exerted over a unit of area?
Your answer:
gravity
inertia
bouyancy
pressure
- What principle states that an immersed body is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces?
Your answer:
Archimedes
Floatation
Bernoull's
Boyle's
- What principle states that a floating object displaces a weight of fluid equal to its own weight?
Your answer:
Archimede's
Newton's
Floatation
Bernoulli's
- What is the primary difference between gases and liquids?
Your answer:
distance between molecules
mass
distance between atoms
weight
- What law explains that the product of pressure and volume is constant for a given mass of confined gas so long as temperature remains the same?
Your answer:
Archimede's
Boyle's
Bernoulli's
Floatation
- What is caused by the weight of air?
Your answer:
buoyancy
atmospheric free-fall
atmospheric weight
atmospheric pressure
- What is the instrument used to measure the pressure of the atmosphere?
Your answer:
psychrometer
barometer
speedometer
altimeter
- What is an aneroid barometer that is calibrated for altitude?
Your answer:
seismometer
speedometer
psychrometer
altimeter
- What principle states that an object by air is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the air displaced?
Your answer:
Boyle's
Floatation
Archimedes
Bernoulli's
- What principle states that when the speed of a fluid increases, pressure in the fluid decreases?
Your answer:
Bernoulli's
Archimede's
Newton's
Boyle's
- What is a push or pull that acts upon an object?
Your answer:
force
weight
velocity
mass
- What is a force that pulls everything down toward the center of the Earth and gives objects their weight?
Your answer:
gravity
weight
density
massiveness
- What is the forward force or an airplane engine?
Your answer:
drag
lift
velocity
thrust
- What kind of force is produced by the wings of and airplane?
Your answer:
thrust
lift
drag
velocity
- What force slows down a plane as it pushes against the air?
Your answer:
drag
lift
thrust
velocity
- What is the measure of how quickly velocity increases?
Your answer:
acceleration
lift
inertia
deceleration
- What is negative acceleration?
Your answer:
acceleration
speed
deceleration
velocity
- What is the tendency of an object to resist having its state of motion changed called?
Your answer:
lift
Boyle's law
inertia
thrust
- What is the amount of material in an object?
Your answer:
its atomic structure
its valency
its mass
its weight
- What force is the cause of the tides?
Your answer:
wind
gravity
geothermal
mechanical
- What happens to a bouncing ball as it falls?
Your answer:
it accelerates
it gains energy
it decelerates
it loses energy