Gravitation

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist who lived from 1643 to 1727. Newton grew up with his grandmother, whereas his father passed away shortly before he was born and his mother remarried a man he did not approve of. Newton attended Trinity College in Cambridge and worked as a servant at the university until he was awarded a scholarship because he could not afford the tuition fees. In 1666, the university was temporarily closed due to an extremely contagious, mortal disease…

by Mike Brown, I was able to grasp an understanding of his personal character. In the beginning of the book it’s hard to point out his personality, due to his brief insight on his childhood upbringing. He began describing his passion and direct gravitation towards astronomy, which would later impact his life tolerably. His metamorphosis from childhood to adulthood, slightly changed, but in the end became his life profession. He did not disclose too much on his childhood friends, or relationships…

January 4th, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Newton was a mathematician and physicist who made multiple discoveries that are applicable today. Some of his most important discoveries being Newton’s Three Laws of Motion, Universal Gravitation, and Optics. Aristotle Was born in 384 B.C. in Stagira, Greece. His parents were both members of traditional medical families. Unfortunately, his parents passed away when he was and the reason why at seventeen he went to Athens and enrolled…

You may have thought that the Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment were the same, but there are several differences.The difference between the two is that The Enlightenment focused on the mental and physical actions and how man related to one another, while The Scientific Revolution concentrated on the physical world and how man related to it. The Scientific Revolution was in the 17th century (1543-1687). In The Scientific Revolution mathematics was key to understanding the nature of…

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” -Stephen Hawkings. This is exactly what Stephen Hawking is working to do by piecing together parts of the universe. Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. When Hawking was young, he showed a strong passion for science and the sky. When he was 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS. ALS is a very progressive disease…

The Mandates created by the European Powers were, in their own language, made to protect the “peoples’ not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world.” The purpose was not the installation governing bodies akin to the ones established during the 17th and 18th centuries of European Colonialism, but instead, European nations were intended to look after these countries “well-being and development” in order to create nations capable of one day governing…

planet made up to fill the gap in unequal Scientific findings. Urbain Le Vernier, a mathematician in 1840, was very interested in the Unusual Way, Mercury orbited the sun. He decided to look into it further, and using Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitation, he was able to calculate the orbit of mercury. He then compared his results to the actual real motion of mercury and they did not add up. Yet, he didn’t give up and decided to keep studying and in 1959, his evidence became even more…

to Hannah Ayscough Newton, in Woolsthorpe, England. Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician during the Scientific Revolution. He developed the principles of modern physics that are taught today. By 1666, Newton had developed the theory of gravitation. He had also come up with ideas about the diffraction of light. In 1686, he presented his three laws of motion in the "Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis”, often known as the “Principia”. Scientists say it is the most influential…

The Big Bang Theory is the current theory of the origin of the universe that has largely been accepted by scientists, however it is not one hundred percent correct as modifications of the theory is continuously being developed as new discoveries, observations and calculations are being made. In the beginning in the universe, there was nothing, no space, no matter, no light, no time and no sound. Then there was a sudden explosion of energy which we now call the Big Bang. But there was no BANG…

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. Physics originates in its classical form in Ancient Greece. Thales was the first physicist. The theories Thales made gave…