Chapters 16-18 Flashcards
Describe Robert Boyle’s experiment that proved what Galileo believed, that “all bodies fall at the same speed in a vacuum.”
Boyle placed a feather and a lump of lead in a glass cylinder and pumped all the air out. When he turned the glass cylinder upside down, bot the feather and lead fell side by side.
first successful flight in a motor-powered aircraft (name of persons)
Wright brothers
How did Torricelli make (invent) the first barometer?
He filled a long glass tube closed at one end and open at the other end, and up-ended the tube in a dish of mercury. When he removed his finger, the mercury partially drained to a height of approximately 30 inches - the first barometer.
liquid element used in barometers that is 13.6 times more dense than water
mercury
built the first hot air baloon
the Montgolfiers
invented the Altimeter
Blaies Pascal
air pressure at sea level in pounds per square inch (PSI)
14.7
designed, built, and flew the first hydrogen-filled balloon
Professor Jacques Charles
Name five of Richard E. Byrd’s accomplishments:
Graduated from U.S. Naval Academy
Flew over both poles
Established a scientific base in Antarctica named Little America
Wintered 5 months alone in a hut south of Little America by himself
Made a trip around the world by himself at age 12
If a barometer at sea level measures 30 inches of mercury, and is take to a height of 18,500 ft. (3.5 miles) above sea level, the same barometer measures 15 inches of mercury. What does this mean?
Half of the atmosphere is below 18,500 feet.
built the first human glider
Otto Lilienthal
first person to study heavier-than-air flight
Leonardo da Vinci
invented an improved air pump that opened many new fields in science
Robert Boyle
