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4. 100 200 300 400 500 VelocityAccelera- tion GraphsFalling bodies Worth a Thousand words Mixed Bag

5. A 100 Velocity at any instant.

6. A 100 What is instantaneous?

7. A 200 It has a negative value in this direction.

8. A 200 What is westward (to the left of the origin)

9. A 300 It is a velocity that does not vary over time.

10. A 300 What is constant velocity?

11. A 400 This is used in velocity calculation, rather than distance.

12. A 400 What is displacement?

13. A 500 The is the equation for solving for average velocity.

14. A 500 What is change in position divide by a change in time?

15. Acceleration has direction and an amount or quantity referred to by this term. B 100

16. What is magnitude? B 100

17. Acceleration may be defined as the rate at which this changes over time. B 200

18. What is velocity?

19. B 300 Acceleration is said to take place if an object’s velocity or an object’s __?__ changes ( or both).

20. What is direction? B 300

21. Acceleration can be represented in meters per second per __?__. B 400

22. What is per second (m/s/s or m/s 2 )? B 400

23. If an object has negative velocity, and it is slowing down, then its acceleration is __?__ (negative or positive) B 500

24. What is positive? B 500

25. The motion of an object throughout a certain period of time, can be represented in this graph. C 100

26. What is the position- time graph (or distance- time graph, or displacement- time graph)? C 100

27. The distance-time graph (displacement-time graph) slope is necessary to produce this graph. C 200

28. What is the speed-time graph (velocity-time graph)? C 200

29. One of the graphs below demonstrates that a constant velocity is taking place. It is graph ___?___. C 300

30. What is graph “a”? C 300

31. DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager

32. The area under the acceleration graph can be used to produces this graph. C 400

33. What is the velocity-time graph? C 400

34. The object, whose velocity is represented in the graph below, is moving in a negative direction through this time interval. C 500

35. What is between 3 and 7 seconds? C 500

36. He stated that all bodies fall to Earth at the same rate. D 100

37. Who was Galileo? D 100

38. D 200 The feather hits the ground well after the hammer (on Earth) because of this.

39. What is air resistance? D 200

40. D 300 This is the numerical value of “g”.

41. D 300 What is -9.81 m/s 2 (-32 ft/s 2 )?

42. The velocity of the ball is zero at this point? D 400

43. What is B? D 400

44. The displacement of the ball at A has this sign (negative or positive)? D 500

45. What is positive? D 500

46. The conditions that must be present in order for this to occur. E 100

47. What is a vacuum? E 100

48. The displacement of the skier at position D, after moving from A to B to C, (then finally to D) is __?__. E 200

49. What is 140 meters? E 200

50. At what time does a falling ball have a velocity equal in magnitude to the velocity it had when it was first thrown upward? E 300

51. What is between 2 and 2.25 seconds? E 300

52. The time interval in which the object is traveling with a negative displacement. E 400

53. What is between 3 and 4 seconds? E 400

54. In the velocity-time graph of a train, the portion of the graph that shows a positive velocity, but decreasing, while the acceleration is negative. E 500

55. What is part C? E 500

56. F 100 The meaning of the symbol below.

57. F 100 What is a change in (delta)?

58. F 200 Beside other physics discoveries, he is associated with gravity and falling apples

59. F 200 Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

60. F 300 A sky diver uses a parachute to decrease __?___ velocity, and land safely.

61. F 300 What is terminal velocity?

62. F 400 This quantity has a magnitude but no direction?

63. F 400 What is a scalar quantity?

64. F 500 A fixed position or set of coordinates that can be used to describe the motion of objects.

65. F 500 What is a frame of reference?

66. The Final Jeopardy Category is: Acceleration Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin

67. Click on screen to continue A rule of thumb for acceleration is that when an object is slowing down, the direction of the acceleration is ____?____ the direction of the object’s motion.

68. What is opposite? Click on screen to continue

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