the one who helped her with her interest in astronomy. At an early age Maria’s father “used stellar observations to check the accuracy of chronometers for Nantucket‚ Massachusetts‚ whalers and taught his children to use a sextant and reflecting telescope” (Sarah Zielinski‚ smithsonian.com). Maria got a good education at a “school at which her father was the master” (nwhm.org). At the young age of seventeen‚ Maria opened her own schools for girls‚ there she taught science and math. Maria discovered
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Literary Analysis: The Lame Shall Enter First Nakia Chambliss Baptist College of Health Sciences Literary Analysis: The Lame Shall Enter First There are three main characters in this story: Sheppard‚ Norton and Rufus. Each character in this story is experiencing an emotional battle which they try to find healing but for some it will be too late. The narrator in the story is Sheppard. Sheppard
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12% interest is worth more in FV terms than $200 invested for 10 years at 4% interest. True False Question 3 (5 points) Shawn wants to buy a new telescope. He estimates that it will take him one year to save the money and that the telescope will cost $200. At an interest rate of 6%‚ how much does Shawn need to set aside today to purchase the telescope in one year? (Enter just the number without the $ sign or a comma) Answer for Question 3 Question 4 (10 points) Johnny and Darren both earn $100
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only seen with a telescope but every once in a while an impressive one is visible to the naked eye. People through out history gave importance to comets. For example the Romans made a coin about a comet orbiting the sun that shows how its tail points away from the sun. The Babylonians recorded a comet sighting. One of the Astic leaders gave up his land to the Spanish upon seeing a comet.<br><br>Definitely we are living in the age of comets where scientists detect it through telescopes and e-mail it
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LEVELLING INSTRUMENTS The instruments commonly used in direct levelling are : 1. A level 2. A levelling staff 1.LEVEL The purpose of a level is to provide horizontal sight. Essentially‚ a level consists of the following four parts : a. A telescope to provide line of sight. b. A level tube to make the line of site horizontal. c. A levelling head (tribrach or trivet stage) to bring the bubble its centre of run. d. A tripod to support the instrument. AUTO LEVEL An Auto Level machine
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Young Discoverer Series UNIVERSE NICKNAMES OF PLANETS: Mercury – Speedy Messenger. Venus – Morning or Evening Star. Earth – The Blue Planet. Mars – The Red Planet. Jupiter – Jove or the Galilean System. Saturn – The Ringed Planet. Uranus – Father Sky. Neptune – The Windy Planet. Pluto – The Ice Planet. DEFINITIONS: STAR: A huge body made of hot luminous gas that is held together by its own gravity. Compared to other stars‚ our Sun is a star of average size and energy. PLANET: A large
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Maroon and cerulean mingle in a vast obsidian pool. The oily swirls of a foreign drop slip and slime away in rippling circles. In the colors contorting around reflected light...rainbow after rainbow spreads. Scarlet burgeons from burgundy and emerald emerges topaz as chemicals dance on the surface of the water. Peach-colored veins drift out of the marbling chaos and away to the edges of the water. Combinations and rejections churn in orbs on the inky surface. This we pass in puddles on the street
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● Contrast: The darkness of the back ground relative to the specimen. B. What is the purpose of immersion oil? To direct the light from the microscope directly to the slide and stop it from refracting. It creats a finer resolution and brightness. Exercise 2: Observing Bacteria Cultures in Yogurt Questions A. Describe your observations of the fresh yogurt slide. B. Were there observable differences between
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PHYS1160 Essays Essays should be between 1500 and 2000 words. The word limit should include the text‚ figure captions‚ footnotes‚ but not the reference list (we are happy to see lots of references). You will lose marks for going over or under the word limit. You are welcome to include pictures. However try to ensure that they help to illustrate the argument presented in the essay and are not mere adornment. Your essay should be written for a well informed but non-specialist audience. The style used
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Galileo was contributed a lot to us today because he had major discoveries in math‚ astronomy‚ physics and engineering. Even though he had an unideal childhood‚ Galileo went to college at the University of Pisa. He also began teaching at the age of 17. In 1568 he invented the hydrostatic balance. this is used to measure the “specific gravity” of a gemstone. This is something that people use today in gemology. He also gave private math lessons to children in florence and his college. In 1593‚ Galileo
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