Scientists Flashcards
Galileo
law of free fall
states that, in the absence of air
resistance, all bodies fall with the same acceleration,
Newton
1
Every object in a state of uniform motion will
remain in that state of motion unless an external
force acts on it.( law of inertia)
2
force equals mass times acceleration
F = mass x acceleraton
3
For every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction
Newton’s law of universal gravitation is usually
stated that every particle attracts every other
particle in the universe with a force which is directly
proportional to the product of their masses and
inversely proportional to the square of the distance
between their centers
Newton concluded that light is composed of
coloured particles that combine to appear white.
Cavendish
Determined gravitation constant
experiment to weigh Earth
Coriolis
rotating system
Joule
Work & energy
watt
watt
Kelvin
Celsius
Fahrenheit
Temperature
Archimedes
the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body
immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially
submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that
the body displaces.
Bernoulli
an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs
simultaneously with a decrease in static pressure
Doppler
an increase (or decrease) in the frequency of sound,
light, or other waves as the source and observer
move towards (or away from) each other
Roemer
First try to measure light speed
Michelson
measure speed of light
Huygens
diffraction
Malus
the intensity of plane-polarized light that passes
through an analyzer varies as the square of the
cosine of the angle between the plane of the
polarizer and the transmission axes of the analyzer
Snell
refraction,
