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3. Circular Motion & Gravitaion
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Going in Circles
Centripetal Force
Law of Gravitation
Torque
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5. The value of p
A 100

6. What is 3.14?
A 100

7. The spinning motion of a body.

8. What is rotational motion?

9. The type of motion experienced by someone in a Ferris wheel car.

10. What is circular motion?

11. The velocity of an object moving around in a circular path.

12. What is tangential velocity (circular velocity)?

13. This is the direction of the tangential velocity vector with respect to the circular path in which an object moves.
A 500

14. What is tangent to the circle
What is tangent to the circle? (or perpendicular to the centripetal force acting on the object)?
A 500

15. The units of centripetal force.
B 100

16. What are Newtons (N)?
B 100

17. Centripetal force is directed here.
B 200

18. What is towards the center of the circle?
B 200

19. Racetrack designers make sure the curves are produced in this manner to generate centripetal force needed to help the cars stay on the path.
B 300

20. What is banked?
B 300

21. Acceleration of an object directed toward the center of the circular path in which it moves.

22. What is centripetal acceleration?
B 400

23. This is the centripetal force needed to keep the moon orbiting the Earth is equivalent to this force.
B 500

24. What is gravitational force?
B 500

25. Torque is a force that does this.

26. What is twist, turn or rotate an object?

27. The tool used to apply torque to a bolt.
C 200

28. What is a wrench ?
C 200

29. Torque depends on two things: a force, and a ______arm.

30. What is the lever arm?
C 300

31. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
C 400

32. The units of torque.
C 400

33. What are Newton-meters or Foot-pounds?
C 400

34. The torque lever arm is the perpendicular distance from this axis to the location that force applied.
C 500

35. What is the rotational axis?
C 500

36. Scientist developed a Universal Law of Gravitation.

37. Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
D 100

38. These are two factors of objects related to their gravitational attraction for one another.

39. What are mass and distance from each other?

40. The force of gravitational attraction between two objects is directly proportional to this.

41. What is mass?
D 300

42. This is how much the gravitational force of attraction decreases as the distance between two objects doubles.
D 400

43. What is by a factor of four?
D 400

44. x N m2/kg2 is the value of this number associated with calculations of the force of gravitational attraction.
D 500

45. What is G, the Universal Gravitational constant (constant of proportionality)?
D 500

46. The average position of an object’s mass.

47. What is the center of mass?

48. Constant tangential speed.

49. What is uniform circular motion?
E 200

50. The average location of the weight of an object.

51. What is the center of gravity?

52. This quantity measures the resistance to a change in rotational motion.

53. What is the moment of inertia?

54. This adjective describes the motion of a body as it shifts from one point in space to another. It normally takes place in straight line.
(Non physics definition: related to a job of converting speech from one language to another.)
E 500

55. What is translational?
E 500

56. This helps cause the tides.
F 100

57. What are the gravitational force exerted by moon?

58. This scientist used a torsional balance to calculation the Universal gravitational constant.
F 200

59. Who is Lord Henry Cavendish?
F 200

60. If you swing a ball attached to a string in a circle above your head, and the string breaks, this causes the ball to fly off ’s in a straight line path.
F 300

61. What is the ball’s inertia?
F 300

62. Satellites in orbit around the Earth, and weightless astronauts on the International Space Station, are in a continual state of free ______.
F 400

63. What is they are in a continual state of free fall?

64. Einstein didn’t believe that gravity was a force at all, but a curve or distortion in this.

65. What is the shape of space-time (“fabric of space”)?

66. Einstein’s Gravity The Final Jeopardy Category is:
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Einstein’s theory that describes gravity as a distortion of the shape of space-time.
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68. What is The General Theory of Relativity?
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