Condensed matter physics

hard math problems during my middle school years, understanding Binomial Theorem saved me a lot of time and work to obtain the correct answer. Furthermore, learning Calculus enabled me to solve higher level of physics problems and helped me generate interests toward electromagnetic physics. Second, in his time period, the discovery of “the Law of Universal Gravitation” would be viewed as a contradictory and wrong statement instead of a correct fascinating new sight. He himself claimed that his…

“Some areas of knowledge seek to describe the world, whereas others seek to transform it.” Explore this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. An Area of Knowledge aims to describe (expressing or noting knowledge) or to transform (change or modify completely) the world, which refers to the planet Earth and all the biotic and abiotic factors in it. This is an assumption that is embedded in the title and it triggers the question; can’t they seek to do both? Description and transformation…

Computer Science, Physics, and PPE. I did not go to Engineering because it was not yet on my radar. The Computer Science advisor was very nice and made me very excited about Computer Science. She especially liked pointing out the combined majors and the possibility of putting different things together. That interested me quite a bit, but unfortunately, when looking at the Degree Audit, it was determined to be impossible for me to finish a combined Computer Science major no matter what the other…

Within The Character of Physical Law, Dr. Feynman details the characteristics of nature. He describes nature as being incredibly complex, pointing to examples such as the orbits of the planets around the sun and tidal movement. Yet, he is able to describe nature as being simple. For a potential reader this can be confusing, as something cannot simultaneously be simple and complex. It is through the understanding and the application of logic that Feynman connects simple ideas to larger and more…

types of states of matter; however, they are distinct from one another. As already mentioned in class before, matter is everything that takes up space and its right to say that the space that is taken by matter is or a solid or a liquid or a gas. That can prove to us that this three states of matter are essential in this world we know. A solid is a sample of matter that retains its shape and density when not confined. The adjective solid describes the state, or condition, of matter having this…

author and astronomer. He excelled in both math and physics and has been developing theories since his early twenties. Isaac Newton attended a grammar school in Grantham near Lincolnshire, where as during this time Newton became very interested with chemicals. In 1664 Newton at that time was a student, he read up on work containing optics and light. He was reading the work of English Physicist Robert Boyle and studied up on the math and physics of french scientist and philosopher Rene…

Astronomy and Astrology: A Battle of Two Ancestral Brothers Astronomy, being an actual natural science, and not just predictions and magic, is a much more useful practice than its ancestral brother, astrology. Though, long ago, astronomy and astrology were once thought to be the one and the same, in the modern era, these two "sciences" are different in both the way they are practiced, and the tools with which you practice them. Astronomy, considered to be the more "real", respected science out…

because the whole book was based on thinking about happiness, where to find it, why some places have it and others don’t, etc. However, in this country, one extremely high on the happiness scale, they refuse to think about it, or anything for that matter. In America, everyone questions their happiness because it is what we strive for, we constantly are thinking about acquiring it. But now, the Thais who have figured it out say that we must abandoned our previous thoughts and just stop thinking…

one hand, and complex means and vulgarity, on the other”. Thoreau shows that living with worry about physical objects distracts an individual from essential aspects of life, and results in a lack of sophistication. However, living with only what matters most in mind, results in achieving good and ambitious goals. As a result to living his philosophy, Thoreau is able to expand his abstract…

The book, structure of Scientific Revolutions, is one of the most famous books authored by Thomas Kuhn. He introduces a wide array of concepts within the essay that explains the course of scientific revolution in the world. However, the essay has received wide criticisms from other scholars especially for what they refer to as his ‘relativistic’ nature. To understand or take a position as to whether the arguments of his charges of relativism are valid, an understanding of the term is necessary,…