Biography born 28 June 1971 South African/Canadian/American business magnate‚ engineer‚ and inventor. He is currently the CEO & CTO of SpaceX and CEO & Chief Product Architect of Tesla Motors. Musk was born in Pretoria‚ South Africa to a Canadian mother and a South African father. Elon taught himself computer programming and at age 12 sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500. TIMELINE 1983 At the age of 12‚ designs a videogame called Blast Star and sells it to a computer
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The world has benefited greatly from the field of science. Scientists are always innovating and modifying everyday things to make the world a better place. Finding a way to make cars faster; make processing chips smaller yet allow them to compute faster. These are the changes that change the world‚ but how about atomic changes. The world used to think that atoms were simple but in reality the building blocks of our universe were much more complex. One individual by the name of Ernest Rutherford proved
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Do it if you’re cool. The word responsible is incredibly hard to define. It has a different meaning for each and every person that gets asked the question. Different cultures think of it differently‚ different communities think of it differently‚ even two sisters would answer think of it differently. According to Ronald Wright‚ in his book A Short History of Progress ‚ the world responsible means sharing. Responsible citizens would take their wealth‚ both physical and metaphorical‚ and share it
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crucial in the development of PayPal and when the company was sold for $1.5 billion‚ he was the largest shareholder. This was his way of having an impact on the Internet. Having just been successful with 2 companies‚ Musk then went on to co-found Tesla motors. Tesla Motors is a car company that makes electric cars and Musk is currently the CEO. Musk wants to change the future of automobiles and make them cleaner and more efficient. This is his way of having an impact of clean energy. Now all that’s left
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Have you ever wondered what the radio was like before it was like it is today? The radio wasn’t small and it was bulky. It was very hard to understand what the people were saying on the radio. People heard movies‚ shows‚ and broadcasts and they had to imagine everything. BDCST and Mary Bellis believe that the radio was a bad invention when it was first invented. It was a bad invention when it first came out‚ because you can barely hear it and you had to imagine everything that was said on
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Thomas Edison: An inventor and a businessman Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor and a businessman. He had created many devices that influenced the world at that time. Edison was among the first to apply principles of mass production to the process of invention. ("Thomas Edison". Wikipedia.com 1). A lot of inventions were original‚ and some inventions were improvements of earlier inventions. He was known for being very creative‚ never giving up‚ and being extremely competitive.
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In the book‚ “Elon Musk: Tesla‚ SpaceX‚ and the Quest for a Fantastic Future‚” Ashlee Vance uses rhetorical devices to help tell the story of Elon Musk; however‚ imagery stands out the most. Throughout the book‚ Vance’s use of imagery is very prominent and advances Musk’s goal of revolutionizing humanity and the world. Since much of his work is physical (as opposed to mental)‚ imagery is an extremely effective device in describing his successes and failures. Thus‚ imagery allows the reader to get
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2015 JC2 H2 Physics June Revision Package Measurement Techniques J02/P2/Q1 1. Make reasonable estimates of the following quantities. (a) mass of an apple [1] (b) number of joules of energy in 1 kilowatt-hour [1] (c) wavelength of red light in a vacuum [1] (d) pressure due to a depth of 10 m of water [1] J02/P2/Q2 2. A student uses a micrometer screw gauge to measure the diameter of a wire. He fails to notice that‚ with the gauge fully closed‚ the reading is not zero. (a) State and explain
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TCO D) PuttingPeople2Work has a growing business placing out-of-work MBAs. They claim they can place a client in a job in their field in less than 36 weeks. You are given the following data from a sample. Sample size: 100 Population standard deviation: 5 Sample mean: 34.2 Formulate a hypothesis test to evaluate the claim. (Points : 10) Ho: µ = 36; Ha: µ ≠ 36 Ho: µ ≥ 36; Ha: µ < 36 Ho: µ ≤ 34.2; Ha: µ > 34.2 Ho: µ > 36; Ha: µ ≤ 36 Ans. b. H0 must always have equal sign‚ <
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Self driving cars used to just be an idea‚ in fact an idea that is becoming a reality. These new cars are high tech and safer for the everyday life. There are already self driving cars on the road. In fact‚ the first thought of a car that could drive itself was in 1939‚ New York Worlds Fair‚ where visitors were presented a vision of automated highways. No progress was made until Google started testing cars in California in 2009. Google was being helped by some Stanford University (Gibbs‚ Samuel)
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