How is the moon's orbit around the earth related to an apple falling from a tree?

Earth's gravity keeps the moon in orbit, and pulls stuff toward the ground.

What can you infer from the fact that Newton was elected President of the Royal Society?

Other scientists understood the importance of his scientific achievements.

What type of object could you best measure using calculus?

An object with curves and irregular surfaces

What conclusion can you draw from the story of Isaac Newton's life?

He revolutionized several different fields within math and science

1. How did Newton's invention of the reflecting telescope affect the field of astronomy?

It allowed astronomers to see clearer images, without warped or lost colors

Isaac Newton was a polymath. If the prefix "poly-" means "many," what can you infer about what a polymath is?

It's someone who is interested in many different fields of study

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How is the moon's orbit around the earth related to an apple falling from a tree?
Earth's gravity keeps the moon in orbit, and pulls stuff toward the ground.
Moons gravity affects water; the earth's gravity affects solid objects.
Earth, the moon, and an apple are all spherical, so they all have gravity.
Moons gravity holds apples on trees while Earths gravity pulls them down
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What can you infer from the fact that Newton was elected President of the Royal Society?
Other scientists appreciated the work he'd done for the Royal Mint.
He was a good friend of the King of England.
Other scientists understood the importance of his scientific achievements.
His personality made him popular among his fellow scientists. b
3
At the Royal Mint, Isaac Newton helped catch and punish counterfeiters. What is a counterfeiter?
Someone who criticizes the king.
Someone who publishes inaccurate scientific theories.
Someone who breaks the laws of physics.
Someone who prints fake money.
4
Legend has it that a fallen apple was key to Newton's ideas on gravity. What term could you use to describe the apple?
Dangerous
Inspiration
Omen
Delicious
5
Isaac Newton is buried at Westminster Abbey in London. Which of these other famous people might be buried there?
Albert Einstein
George Washington
Queen Elizabeth I
King Louis XIV of France
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What type of object could you best measure using calculus?
An object with curves and irregular surfaces
A object so distant you need binoculars to see it
What type of object could you best measure using calculus?
A very close object, like anything under a microscope
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What conclusion can you draw from the story of Isaac Newton's life?
He wasn't nearly as smart as Einstein
He revolutionized several different fields within math and science
His most important contributions came with the Royal Mint
His contributions to math and science were unrecognized until after he died
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1. How did Newton's invention of the reflecting telescope affect the field of astronomy?
It allowed astronomers to realize that the earth revolves around the sun
It allowed astronomers to see clearer images, without warped or lost colors
It made astronomers realize that sunlight contains different colors
It allowed astronomers to discover the existence of Jupiter and Saturn
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Isaac Newton was a polymath. If the prefix "poly-" means "many," what can you infer about what a polymath is?
It's someone who memorizes the multiplication tables
It's someone who is interested in many different fields of study
It's someone who develops mathematical proofs about polynomials
Someone who comes up with hundreds of scientific equations over his life
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According to Newton, what kinds of objects are affected by gravity?
Only objects that orbit the sun, like planets.
Only objects with a lot of mass, like human beings.
All objects in the universe.
Only objects inside the earth's atmosphere, like apples.

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