Rubidium is a chemical element that was discovered in 1861 by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff‚ in Heidelberg‚ Germany through a scientific process of flame spectroscopy. During the process‚ Kirchhoff and Heidelberg noticed bright red lines in its emission spectrum which caused them to choose the name Rubidium derived from the Latin word rubidus‚ meaning "deep red". Rubidium is a chemical element with symbol Rb and atomic number 37 and an atomic mass of 85.4678. Rubidium is a soft‚ silvery-white
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The Egg-Drop Device Process The process of dropping an egg is more complex than a normal person would believe. The egg-dropping process requires knowledge of history‚ engineering‚ and mathematics and physics. To fully understand how an egg drops‚ the knowledge of the history of physics‚ the engineering behind a device‚ and the mathematics and physics of free-fall is needed. Classic physics originates in Ancient Greece. The theories Thales‚ the first physicist‚ designs gives the discipline of physics
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Democritus was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher of Ancient Greece. He along with Leucippus were atomic theorists who proposed during the fifth century B.C that 1. Matter is composed of atoms separated by empty space by which atoms move. 2.Atoms are solid‚ homogeneous‚ indivisible‚ and unchanging. Democritus knew that if he took a rock and chisel it in half‚ that both halves would characteristically have the same properties as the whole. He rationalized that if he was to continue to cut the
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I found out from this experiment that half-life means just what it sounds like. After each cycle of half-life‚ the number of coins left was about half. Each coin represents an atom and just like in nature the half-life of decay is half depending what the element’s half-life is. If each of the scatter test was 10 years‚ the element we are testing would have a half-life of 10 years. The amount of time for a half-life depends on the elements‚ and how tightly the atoms are packed together. Some other
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All atoms are electrically neutral i.e. they have the same amounts of negative and positive charge inside them. The electrons carry negative charge and the protons carry positive charge. The basic unit of charge (called the elementary charge)‚ is the amount of charge carried by one electron. The charge on a single electron is qe = 1‚ 6x10−19 C. All other charges in the universe consist of an integer multiple of this charge (i.e. Q = nqe). This is known as charge quantisation. All the matter
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel‚ Germany on April 23‚ 1858 (Foundation‚ 2014). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1918 and developed what would come to be known as “Planck’s Constant” in quantum theory. During his collegiate years he studied under Gustav Kirchoff‚ who developed Kirchoff’s Law for current and voltages. He suffered a personal tragedy when one of his sons was killed for his participation in an assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler in 1944. Planck’s earliest
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Part one: The Lab You will be helping Galileo perform the experiment to determine if objects with different mass fall at the same‚ or different‚ rates in the air and in a vacuum. Before you conduct your experiment‚ you need to form a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a prediction of what you think will happen in the experiment. The hypothesis is a statement that describes “if” a certain set of circumstances are present “then” there will be a specific result that will occur. Record your hypothesis here:
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The modern atomic theory was developed by many scientists‚ such as Neil Bohr‚ Democritus‚ James Chadwick and John Dalton. Each of these intelligent scientists have found different discoveries in their research with the atom. Why has scientific understanding of the atom changed over time? This would be because each scientist has had a different approach and has discovered new understandings from their research. Without these men researching and experimenting‚ we would not know all of the different
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School of Physics Faculty of Science Moodle Home Announcements User Guides i PHYS1160-Introduction to Astronomy T1 2014 You are logged in as Henry Cai (Logout) My courses UNSWA - University of New South Wales SCI - Faculty of Science PHYS - School of Physics Module 3 (Weeks 5-6) — Life on Earth and in the Solar System PHYS1160-5144_01311 Module 3 Quiz Quiz navigation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Started on State Completed
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Week Five Textbook Exercises Geoffrey Anderson PHY/101 December 9‚ 2014 Mr. Craig Spencer Week Five Textbook Exercises Chapter 22: Electrostatics 8) When combing your hair‚ you scuff electrons from your hair onto the comb. Is your hair then positively or negatively charged? How about the comb? -The hair becomes positively charged and the comb becomes negatively charged; since‚ the electrons went from your hair to the comb and the more electrons there is makes an object more negative. 18)
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