Thursday, January 31, 2008

Torque

What is torque and how is it used in simple machines?

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Kepler's Laws

Why did Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion change the way that we look at Pluto?

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Inside a black hole

What did you learn about black holes and what is inside of them?

Monday, January 28, 2008

Gravitational field strength

Why is the Gravitational field strength equal to the free-fall acceleration?

Friday, January 25, 2008

Newton

According to Newton's Law of Universal Graviation what is G?

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Looped

Who has the coolest loop and why?

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

What about those loops?

Is your loop that you made in class going to work or is it going to fail? If you have already made your loop and tested it, tell me if it work or not and why.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Black holes spin near speed of light

By Jeremy Hsu, SPACE.com
Supermassive black holes spin at speeds approaching the speed of light, new research suggests.
Nine huge galaxies were found to contain furiously whirling black holes that pump out energetic jets of gas into the surrounding environment, according to a study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.



How do we really know that a black holes spins at the speed of light?

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Ptolemy

What did Ptolemy do that was so great when it came to planetary motion?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Black Hole

What is really inside a black hole? In fact, what is a black hole?

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Who is this?

Who the heck is Henry Cavendish and what did you do to get his name in a text book?

Monday, January 14, 2008

Newton and Gravity???

Newton not only stated his laws of motion but he also had a little something to do with stating a law about gravitation force. What is that law and what does it say?

Friday, January 11, 2008

Inertia

What is inertia and why is it related to circular motion?

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Job's in momentum

What job did you find that realated to chapter 6?

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Seat Belts

Every car that is made now contains a seat beat. Explain the purpose of the seat beat and why some are better then others.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Collision

Give an examples of a perfectly inelastic collision and describe how it differs from a elastic collision.

Monday, January 7, 2008

What is going on here?

Watch the first video and tell me what you think is happening here.