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    heavier the object that it is will fall faster or not. The method that was used to find gravity was through the derived version of kinematic definitions. The overall result in the experiment concluded that distance and mass does not effect on the gravitational acceleration that the object experiences, either a heavy item or light weight item falling at the same point will land at the same time due to gravity. When people think of a physic quote, one that usually comes to mind is what goes up…

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    1. Describe the Milky Way. What does it contain? The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, which looks like a pinwheel. At times, people can look up to the sky and see the faint band of light, the glow of stars in the galaxy’s disk, which gave the Milky Way its name. The galaxy is of an average size, 100,000 light-years across and 1,000 light-years deep. It contains about 500 billion stars and many planets. The center of the galaxy contains a supermassive black hole, which is the cause of our…

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    levels of CO2 H2 can be obtained from electrolysis The methane can be used as a fuel in industries. GRAVITY Empyreal has a torus based design because it has to rotate about its axis; when it rotates it creates artificial gravity. So the people inside would have to experience centripetal acceleration, we can say that based on the equation:- a=ω^2 r In the above equation “a” is the…

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    Inversion therapy makes it possible for gravity to stretch the body in a way that it isn't typically stretched. The benefits of a gravity stretch will slowly decompress the joints in your backbone, knees and hips, that are normally compressed because of the gravity pressure of standing upright. The gravity inversion technique has been employed for thousands of years for chronic back pain,headache relief, increased blood flow, and elevated overall flexibility. Gravity inversion tables are a lot…

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    denser than water. 2) The order of the four liquids that I would layer them in a graduated cylinder from bottom to top consist of: water, oil, 2- propanol, and methanol. 3) Working with specific gravity would be different from working with density. These two topics are similar but differ. The specific gravity is the answer of density. It’s the ratio of the density of a given soli or liquid substance to the density of water. Also, density has units,…

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    Essay On Dark Matter

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    attempt to figure out what it is, but no one truly knows what composes dark matter. Physicists are so interested in understanding dark matter because it accounts for the formation of the Universe, as observable through studying the distribution of gravity within galaxies (Carnegie). Original attempts at studying dark matter referred to dark matter as baryonic, which is a word used to describe baryons, or quark based particles. Quarks make up “normal” subatomic particles, and so when referring to…

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    And to understand tides, we start with gravity. Gravity is a force, and it weakens with distance. An important thing to note is that we measure gravity from the center of mass of an object, not its surface. One way to think of the center of mass of an object is the average position in an object of all its mass. For an evenly distributed sphere, that’s it’s…

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    To be clear, the ordinary common sense view of personal identity being endorsed here posits knowledge claims of personal identity are objectively valid statements because these claims are priori truths. But I digress, this definition is of itself an act of charity because ordinary common sense does not simply presuppose more, but rather the consensus seems more of a pithy assertion concerning any fact of the matter. Continuing on, objectively valid knowledge claims are claims about things in the…

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    Should humans really risk colonizing Mars? With all of the potential benefits of colonizing Mars, there are lots of challenges. Colonizing Mars is a horrible idea because there is no available food , gravity is very different and has the worst sandstorms in the solar system. There is no available food to eat.The humans that go there will have to eat freeze dried foods along with dehydrated fruits and vegetables. Freeze dried cheese and powdered spices will also be part of what people eat, along…

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    The Owens Valley Analysis

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    Introduction Postulated to be the result of either a long-runout landslide, or a structural pop-up, the Poverty Hills present a unique problem in the geologic community. Located on the western-most edge of the Basin and Range Province in eastern California (Fig.1), and within the Owens Valley basin, flanked by the Sierra Nevada and Inyo/White mountain ranges to the west and east, respectively. The hills are of particular interest as they represent an unusual combination of lithologies,…

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