Across
- 5. An object in circular motion has a centripetal ____
- 7. no object that is within a certain distance of a ______ can move fast enough to escape the gravitational pull of the black hole.
- 10. When you raise a ball to a certain height above Earth, the ball gains _____
- 11. gravitational force = ____ × mass1xmass2/distance between masses ^2
- 15. a quantity that measures the ability of a force to rotate an object around some axis
- 18. ___ finds the value of G and Earth’s mass
- 20. the acceleration directed toward the center of a circular path
- 21. _ force and acceleration are directed toward the center of the circular path.
- 22. The two quantities are the ____ of the central object and the distance between the centers of the objects.
- 23. Both the period and speed of an object that is in a circular orbit around another object depend on ____ quantities
- 24. Tangential speed (vt) can be used to describe the ____ of an object in circular motion
- 28. _ is the gravitational force that would be exerted on a unit mass at any given point in space and is equal to free-fall acceleration.
- 29. Polish astronomer Nicolaus _____ (1473–1543) published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- 30. Every ___ in the universe is attracted to every other ___ by a force that is directly proportional to the product of the ____ masses
Down
- 1. Third Law: The square of a planet's ___ period (T^2) is proportional to the cube of the average distance (r^3) between the planet and the sun T^2<r^3
- 2. ___ is present all around you
- 3. the mutual force of attraction between particles of matter
- 4. the perpendicular distance from the axis of rotation to a line drawn along the direction of the force
- 6. An object in circular motion has a _____ acceleration
- 8. Simple machines provide a mechanical ___.
- 9. The particle that directly __ is also inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the particles.
- 12. An ____ that revolves about a single axis undergoes circular motion.
- 13. Kepler developed _ laws of planetary motion.
- 14. Second Law: An imaginary line drawn from the sun to any planet sweeps out equal areas in equal time _____.
- 16. symbol for ____ T
- 17. The torque on an object depends on the ____ of the applied force and on the lever arm.
- 19. symbol for ____ is F^^c
- 25. symbol for ____ is V^^t
- 26. In the second century CE, Claudius ______ developed an elaborate theory of planetary motion.
- 27. First Law: Each planet travels in an ______ orbit around the sun, and the sun is at one of the focal points.
