Space-time
- How may BB's will fill up a basketball?
- How many physics textbooks, lined up as they are on a library
shelf, would be needed to wrap around the earth once?
- How many CHEERIOS are there in a box (15 oz. net wt.)?
- How many cartwheels would an astronaut have to do to circle
the moon?
- What is the thickness, in cm, of a page from a paperback
book?
- How many golf balls would it take to fill an Olympic sized
swimming pool?
- How many red blood cells are need to top a small cheese pizza?
- If you built a model of an atom with the nucleus 1 cm in
diameter, what would be the overall diameter of the model in
cm?
- The Earth currently loses a millisecond of rotation every
year. If this rate of loss has been continuous, how many 24 hour
days have been lost since the Earth was formed?
- How many sitcoms could you watch while counting from one
to one billion?
Velocity
- If the historical "shot heard round the world"
could in fact be heard around the world, how many seconds would
it take?
- How many seconds will it take an ant to walk from San Diego
to San Francisco?
- How many seconds would it take to ski from the top of Mount
Everest to the bottom, assuming a 30 degree slope?
- How far, in meters, does an average person walk during an
average lifetime?
- How many inches does a fingernail grow in one second?
- If it were possible to walk from here to the moon, how many
years would it take?
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