Abeka Physics Midterm 2018

The state in which matter exists depends on the

T or F: Free fall, as defined by the text, exists only in a vacuum.

Physics is the study of

What type of energy is a drawn bow string?

What type of energy is a book sitting on a shelf?

What name is given to straight line distance from one point to another?

What quantity has both direction and magnitude?

T or F: Freefall occurs if an object falling towards earth has no other forces acting on it.

Which of the following is an example of special revelation?

which of these varies according to the strength of gravity?

What was Johannes Kepler's first job?

Motion along a straight line is called _______ motion.

A _____________ quantity has magnitude but no direction.

In physics, the most the most common frame of reference for measurement of kinetic energy is

What type of energy is a moving train?

Matter at rest will remain at rest and matter in motion will remain in motion, if left alone is

What name is given to speed in a given direction?

T or F : Kepler's 3rd law of motion was published in the " Astronmia Nova"

T or F: Kepler was the first scientist to use what we know now as the Scientific Method.

What type of energy do you see in pith balls of opposite charges sitting a distance apart?

T or F: An apple led Newton to his discovery of the laws of gravity.

Who collected the data that Kepler used to formulate his laws of planetary motion?

T or F : The equation for Kepler's 3rd law is T=Cr.

Mercury's boiling point is 356C it's melting point is -38C . What state is it at -240C ?

1st law " The ____ of every planet has the shape of an ellipse with the sun as one of the foci"

Who first described the property of inertia?

Kepler's first law of planetary motion is also called the law of ____.

Which of these is conserved?

Who developed the equation relating to mater and energy?