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Enjoy Your Circular Motion & Gravitaion

Going in Circles Centripetal Force Torque Law of Gravitation Vocabulary Assorted 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

The value of p A 100

What is 3. 14? A 100

The spinning motion of a body. A 200

What is rotational motion? A 200

The type of motion experienced by someone in a Ferris wheel car. A 300

What is circular motion? A 300

The velocity of an object moving around in a circular path. A 400

What is tangential velocity (circular velocity)? A 400

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

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

The units of centripetal force. B 100

What are Newtons (N)? B 100

Centripetal force is directed here. B 200

What is towards the center of the circle? B 200

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

What is banked? B 300

Acceleration of an object directed toward the center of the circular path in which it moves. B 400

What is centripetal acceleration? B 400

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

What is gravitational force? B 500

Torque is a force that does this. C 100

What is twist, turn or rotate an object? C 100

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

What is a wrench ? C 200

Torque depends on two things: a force, and a ______arm. C 300

What is the lever arm? C 300

DAILY DOUBLE C 400

The units of torque. C 400

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

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

What is the rotational axis? C 500

Scientist developed a Universal Law of Gravitation. D 100

Who is Sir Isaac Newton? D 100

These are two factors of objects related to their gravitational attraction for one another. D 200

What are mass and distance from each other? D 200

The force of gravitational attraction between two objects is directly proportional to this. D 300

What is mass? D 300

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

What is by a factor of four? D 400

6. 67259 x 10 -11 N m 2/kg 2 is the value of this number associated with calculations of the force of gravitational attraction. D 500

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

The average position of an object’s mass. E 100

What is the center of mass? E 100

Constant tangential speed. E 200

What is uniform circular motion? E 200

The average location of the weight of an object. E 300

What is the center of gravity? E 300

This quantity measures the resistance to a change in rotational motion. E 400

What is the moment of inertia? E 400

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

What is translational? E 500

This helps cause the tides. F 100

What are the gravitational force exerted by moon? F 100

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

Who is Lord Henry Cavendish? F 200

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

What is the ball’s inertia? F 300

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

What is they are in a continual state of free fall? F 400

Einstein didn’t believe that gravity was a force at all, but a curve or distortion in this. F 500

What is the shape of spacetime (“fabric of space”)? F 500

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