Physics Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Unit Converting
How many meters are in 212 feet?
$100 Answer Unit Converting
65.23 meters
$200 Unit Converting
How many cm are in 4 miles?
$200 Answer Unit Converting
643737.6 cm
$300 Unit Converting
How many miles are in 3 km and 34 meters?
$300 Answer Unit Converting
1.887 miles
$400 Unit Converting
How fast are you going in Yards per day if you
are going 15 meters per second?
$400 Answer Unit Converting
1404000 yards per day
$500 Unit Converting
What volume in terms of cm^3 do you have if you
have 27 in^3?
$500 Answer Unit Converting
442.5 cm^3
$100 Question Acceleration
What is the acceleration of a car that starts
at 24 meters per second and slows down
to a rest in 3 seconds?
$100 Answer Acceleration
a = -8 m/s^2
$200 Question Acceleration
What is the acceleration of a baseball if
when it leaves the pitchers hand it is going
95 mi/h and as it passes the hitter it is
going 84 mi/h and it takes .45 seconds to
get there?
$200 Answer Acceleration
a = -24.4 mi/h/s
$300 Question Acceleration
How long does it take for Julina
on her bike to go from 2 m/s to
10 m/s if she accelerates at a
rate of 3 m/s^2?
$300 Answer Acceleration
t = 2.67 seconds
$400 Question Acceleration
How fast are you going if you
accelerate at a rate of 5 m/s^2 for 4
seconds if you are already going 3
m/s?
$400 Answer Acceleration
v = 23 m/s
$500 Question Acceleration
What is the initial velocity of a car if speeds up at a rate of 6
m/s^2 for 10 seconds and winds up at 82 miles per hour?
$500 Answer Acceleration
v = 23.4 m/s
$100 Question Graphing
What does it mean on a distance vs time
graph if you have a straight diagonal
line with a positive slope?
$100 Answer Graphing
You will have a positive constant velocity
$200 Question Graphing
What will a velocity vs time
graph look like if you have a
constant negative velocity?
$200 Answer Graphing
You will have a straight horizontal
line below the x axis.
$300 Question Graphing
What will a distance vs time graph
look like if you are told you have a
constant negative velocity?
$300 Answer Graphing
You will have a straight
diagonal line with a negative
slope.
$400 Question Graphing
Describe how this person is
walking
$400 Answer Graphing
He/she walks backward for 60 m, then turns around
and walks forward for 20 m, then stops for 2
seconds, walks backward for 40 m, then turns around
again and walks forward for 50 m
$500 Question Graphing
Describe the motion
according to this graph
$500 Answer Graphing
It is accelerating at a constant positive rate
$100 Question Distance
Starting from rest, a car undergoes a
constant acceleration of 6.0 m/s^2.
How far will the car travel in the first
second?
$100 Answer Distance
d = 3m
$200 Question Distance
What vertical distance can a person with a .8 second
hang time jump?
$200 Answer Distance
d = 0.8 m
$300 Question Distance
A crate falls from an air plane flying horizontally
at an altitude of 2,000 m. Neglecting air
resistance, how long will the crate take to strike
the ground?
$300 Answer Distance
t = 20.0 seconds
$400 Question Distance
If a projectile fired beneath the water, straight up, breaks
through the surface at a speed of 16 m/s, to what height
above the water will it ascend?
$400 Answer Distance
d = 12.8 m
$500 Question Distance
A stone is dropped from a cliff.
After it has fallen 40 m, what is
the stone’s velocity?
$500 Answer Distance
v = 28 m/s
$100 Question Vectors
You throw a ball straight up in the
air at a velocity of 30 m/s. What
is the acceleration acting on the
ball at t = 3s?
$100 Answer Vectors
a = -10 m/s^2
$200 Question Vectors
How long does a ball take to fall off a table if the table
is 2.5 meters tall?
$200 Answer Vectors
t = 0.71s
$300 Question Vectors
How far will a bird egg fall out if a tree if it falls for 3
seconds? What speed is it going when it hits the
ground if the tree is that exact height?
Does the egg break?
$300 Answer Vectors
Tree Height = 15 m
Velocity = -30 m/s
No. Laura sees the egg falling
And quickly constructs a net
Out of her hair to catch the egg!
$400 Question Vectors
Derrick Lee hits a pop-up straight up. The velocity of
the baseball as it leaves the bat is 38.2 m/s.
Determine (a) the maximum height the baseball
reaches, and (b) the total time the baseball is in the
air. Assume the baseball is caught at the same height
above the ground as it was hit.
$400 Answer Vectors
d = 72.96 m
t = 7.64s
$500 Question Vectors
Derrick Lee hits a pop-up straight up.
The velocity of the baseball as it leaves
the bat is 38.2 m/s. Determine (a) the
maximum height the baseball reaches,
and (b) the total time the baseball is in
the air. Assume the baseball is caught at
the same height above the ground as it
was hit.
$500 Answer Vectors
Final Jeopardy
If a woman weighs 500 N on earth, what would
she weigh on Jupiter, where the
acceleration of gravity is 26 m/s^2?
Final Jeopardy Answer
1300 N