Log 7 q4

Questions of the Week

1. What is the Latin word for force and what does it mean? 

2. What are two things that forces have?

3. What are the two things that affect gravity? 

4. What is the SI unit for force? 

5. What will hit the ground first, a bowling ball or a feather? 

Scientist of the Week 

1. I was born on February 15, 1564.

2. I was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa.

3. I have been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science".

4. I studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion. 

5. My championing of Copernican heliocentrism (Earth rotating daily and revolving around the sun) met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers.

Daily Questions

1. What is the universal law of gravity? 

2. What symbol can be used to show force? 

3. What symbol can be used to show the amount of force? 

4. What causes surfaces from moving past each other up to a limit? 

5. What are the three types of friction?