The Ptolemaic-Aristotelian view was very idealized and simple compared to the knowledge we have today. They taught that the planets were perfectly spherical‚ traveling in circular orbits‚ at a constant speed. The geocentric model of our galaxy was also taught‚ meaning the earth would be at the center. Bit by bit‚ philosophers‚ especially in the eighteenth century‚ began to find discrepancies in the ancient model. Copernicus‚ believed that a heliocentric model of the galaxy better accounted for planetary
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Volleyball Serve Biomechanical factors influencing my Performance Contacting the ball at the top of arms reach If I did not contact the ball at the top of arms reach I would loose acceleration because the force is greater when the arm is at full reach. By contacting the ball at full arms reach you are creating a longer leaver and increasing the moment of inertia by increasing the force upon which you can accelerate the arm forward to serve the ball. If the ball contacted beyond the top
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Constant Acceleration‚ Velocity and Displacement On A Downward Ramp 3/3/2014 Purpose: To determine the velocity and acceleration of an object at different positions going down a ramp at four different angles. Hypothesis: If an object is accelerating at different angles then the larger angles will always have the largest acceleration. Materials: Ramp Miniature car Ticker Machine Masking tape Ticker tape Carbon paper Power supply Ruler Procedure: 1. A ramp
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Some place deep inside the minds of everybody’s brain‚ there is a door. An entryway that isolates the universes of fantasy and reality. Fantasy can be a blinding place loaded with the endless longings of individuals. On the other side of fantasy theirs reality which pounds its hands waiting eagerly to be noticed. The protagonist‚ Christopher is a true image of what reality is. People can be blinded by the fantasy and forget the facts of reality when they’re pointed out. In the book‚ The Curious
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Katherine G. Johnson is a mathematician who calculated the trajectories responsible for launching the first American into space. Katherine was born on August 26th‚ 1918 in White Sulfur Springs‚ West Virginia. As a child‚ Katherine loved to count and had a strong interest in numbers which led to her profound knowledge of mathematics. Her passion for numbers showed through her interest in advancing her education‚ she graduated from the eighth grade by the age of ten; then graduated from high school
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The Enigma of the Fastest Path “Mathematics directs the flow of the universe‚ lurks behind its shapes and curves‚ holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.” ― Edward Frenkel‚ Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality I would often wonder what would it be like to travelling at the speed of light. It could possibly only be a mere aspiration because I realized that achieving that speed was close to impossible. Definitely not a job worthy of a 17-year-old. It is no espionage
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What is the age an origin of our universe? The issue to be discussed in the following paper is the 3 theories of how the universe started‚ the Doppler Effect‚ the age of the universe‚ the origin of the universe‚ red shift/blue shift and dark matter/dark energy. The Doppler Effect is a change in frequency and wave length of a wave. It’s caused by the change in distance between the thing creating the wave and whatever it’s measuring‚ seeing and hearing the wave. The universe was created over 14
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Ultra Thin Cloak Can Match Any Background! In the Movie Predator there was an Alien that would uses a Cloaking Device that would hide the Alien in Plain Sight‚ But the effect is far from Perfect‚ due to its attempt to conceal itself is Thwarted from the distortion of Light bending around it. Now‚ Researchers built an Ultrathin “Invisibility Cloak” that Gets around the Problem of Light Bending by turning objects into Flat‚ Perfect mirrors. Invisibility Cloaks are Designed to bend light around an
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------------------------------------------------- Impulse (physics) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Common symbol(s): | I‚ J | SI unit: | N · s = kg · m/s | Classical mechanics | * History * Timeline | Branches[show] | Formulations[show] | Fundamental concepts[show] | Core topics[show] | Rotational motion[show] | Scientists[show] | * v * t * e | In classical mechanics‚ impulse (noted as I or J) is defined as the integral of a force with respect to time
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Summer Assignment Revision –Term 1 Grade:9 Answer as many as possible: 1) State universal law of gravitation. Express it mathematically. 2) Differentiate between G‘ and g‘ in tabular form. 3) (a) What is acceleration ? Write its unit. (b) Draw velocity-time graph‚ when an object has (i) uniformly accelerated velocity. (ii) uniformly retarded velocity. 4) Prove that if a body is thrown vertically upward‚ the time of ascent is equal to the time of descent. 5) The earth attracts the moon. Does the moon
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