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Solar system Physics

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Heliocentric?

a)

With the Sun in the center, the planets revolve around it.

b)

With the Sun in the middle, the planets revolve around it.

c)

With the Sun at the top, the planets revolve around it.

d)

With the Sun in the below, the planets revolve around it.

2.

With the Earth in the center

a)

Heliocenter

b)

Geocenter

c)

Epicycle

3.

Circle on another circle. This geometric model was devised by the ancient Greeks to explain variations in the speed and direction of the apparent motion of the Moon, the Sun and the planets.

a)

Heliocenter

b)

Geocenter

c)

Epicycle

4.

Greek thinkers "The laws that governed the movement of objects on Earth were

different from those that governed the behavior of the stars in the sky"

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 BC) proposed a geocentric model

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) resumed heliocentric model assuming that the planets describe circular orbits around the Sun.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Ptolomy proposed the Earth as the center of the Universe and the Sun

a)

True

b)

False

8.

This heliocenter model was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church

a)

True

b)

False

9.

In the heliocentric model assume that the motion of a planet was described as a uniform circular motion.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Isaac Newton identified and unified the causes of planetary movement with those that correspond to the orbit of bodies

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Talking about​ (a)   ​ we refer to the moment to a vertical rectilinear movement of a body to which no initial velocity is given and which accelerates constantly as a consequence of its weight

12.

Formula of the magnitude of the acceleration in terms of distance, d, and time t ​ ​ (a)  

a)

d=v2t22rd=\frac{v^2t^2}{2r}  

b)

d=a2t22rd=\frac{a^2t^2}{2r}  

c)

d=s2t3t2d=\frac{s^2t^3}{t^2}  

13.

Who was Robert Hooke?

a)

The inventor of gravity

b)

Father of the Physic

c)

Remembered as one of the architects of gravitation.

d)

Nobel prize in 1867

14.

Who said "if I have seen further it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants"​ (a)  

a)

Aristoteles

b)

Robert Hooke

c)

Newton

d)

Aristacus

15.

According to Copernicus and Ptolemy's model in both cases the orbit has an (a)   form.