Gravitational wave

Hokusai used scale when he painted Mount Fuji. His composition in The Great Wave and The Inlet of Nobuto placed Mount Fuji in a distant center point in each painting. Mount Fuji is symbolic in each painting, yet he uses scale to give importance to the catastrophic waves, or the Japanese villagers gathering peacefully. In both paintings, Mount Fuji is the background. The mountain is undefeated by natural disasters. In The Inlet of Nobuto, the mountain is really distant, and completely covered…

The Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province is a painting in a collection of works titled Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, by artist Katsushika Hokusai between 1830-1833. However, even though the series is named thirty-six views, Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province is the fifth of an additional ten paintings added onto the original set of thirty-six due to the overall popularity of Katsushika Hokusai’s work. The series, as the title states, contains thirty-six various views of Mt.Fuji and the areas surrounding the…

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa and The Inlet of Nobuto are visually very different, contrasting drastically in the conveyed emotional expressiveness. Both paintings clearly portray a great interconnection between men and nature, as to point out an important theme fundamental to Japanese art. However, in The Great Wave the nature seems to rebel against men, while in The Inlet of Nobuto it embraces them inserenity and harmony. Perhaps, this change in dynamics reveals various life circumstances the…

waiting. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, has been twenty-five years and more than half a billion dollars in the making. It involves 900 scientists and engineers, including many whose entire careers have been spent designing, building, and preparing to analyze data streaming in to LIGO. Their goal: To confirm, once and for all, Einstein’s century-old idea that gravity travels across space-time in the form of gravitational waves. Well, they did. This morning, the…

hole? A photon is typically seen as a particle or wave representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. A photon carries energy proportional to the radiation frequency but has zero rest mass. Photons are currently best explained by quantum mechanics. However, it is important to know that photons have both the qualities of waves and particles which is known as wave-particle duality. As Einstein once said in attempt to explain wave-particle duality, "It seems as though we must…

Nuclear Fusion and the Remains of a Dead Star Throughout the history of Earth, multicellular organisms rely on one thing, the sun. And throughout the observable universe, there are million of stars out there just like our sun. These stars could be different however, with either more mass, volume, heat, etc. In our high school career, we learn a lot about astronomy, such as the order of the planets in our solar system. We also learn about gravity, rotation of planets, and how long it takes…

within the past 200 years is Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. This in fact plays small and major parts in the reason for many of the following happenings. 1. The Expanding Universe 2. The Big Bang Theory 3. Time Travel 4. Black Holes 5. Gravitational…

Lesson is for 2nd or 3rd graders Engage: The teacher will present the class with a fish tank full of water, and will begin to tilt it back and forth to make waves inside the tank. Students will be asked what is causing waves to form inside the tank? After the teacher has listened and responded to each student’s answer, the teacher will then ask multiple questions for class discussion before the lesson, such as what makes water tides? What is gravity? Does the moon or the sun affect the…

electromagnetic radiation, this radiation can only be detected by a radio telescope. The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation shows up on a radio telescope as a faint glow. The glow of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is the strongest microwave wave on the radio spectrum (Coffey). In 1964 radio astronomer Robert Wilson, along with physicist, Arno Penzias discovered what is now known as the CMB or Cosmic Microwave Background. The CMB is the remnant heat left behind by the Big Bang, the…

The balloon is placed on a contraption which was custom built to provide the desired gravitational potential energy between the balloon (or object) and a strip of wood. The apparatus also is able to exert a normal force on the balloon which equals the force due to gravity. This allows the balloon to be held up until there is a new force applied to it horizontally. The train begins to move forward and creates more tension on the string which is tied to both the balloon and the train. Once the…