Introductory physics

him as honorable. Isaac Newton accomplished many things over his lifetime as a scientist. He is best known for his work on motion and gravity. He discovered and wrote Newton’s three laws of motion which are used around the world today as a base of physics. He also developed the law of gravitation that contains certain aspects still used to explain the gravitational…

How was the world formed? How did humans become prominent in the world today? These are questions that get asked everyday and a very select few of people can answer them. Out of the select few, one stands out the most and that is Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan is a very prominent astronomer, cosmologist, and an author. Carl Sagan is well known for his books: Cosmos, Broca’s Brain, The Dragons of Eden, and Contact. He also narrated show called Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. He is also well known for his…

Introduction Gerolamo Cardano is the one that have the most colorful and striking personalities in the history of science , He was a very peculiar innovator. He invented the Cardan shaft, pillows to reduce allergic reactions (very new in those days) and the combination lock. And he is the best known for the contributions to mathematics, solving the mathematical fourth order equations problem so in 2000 he was found the company with the wish to innovate the financial world, based on the notion…

relativity. In 1921 Einstein won a Nobel Prize for physics and the photoelectric effect. The next decade, he moved to the United States after being tracked by Nazis. He also had a major impact on atomic energy. Later Albert Einstein worked on unified field theory. Albert Einstein is considered the best physicist of the 20th century.…

The Medici family, sometimes referred to as the House of Medici, rose to power by starting the Medici bank in Florence, 13th. Through that bank, they became one of the wealthiest families of the Renaissance era. The Medici family is well known for their support in architecture and arts. They would pay artists commissions in return for major works of art. The Medici family had a major influence on the arts of the Renaissance era as they used their wealth to help artists focus on their work…

Luis Miramontes was a famous Mexican chemist who invented birth control. He was born in March 16, 1925 at Tepic, Nayarit. His full name is Luis E. Miramontes Cardenas. At the National Autonomous University of Mexico, he received his first degree in chemical engineering. He was a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in the Institute of Chemistry. He also was the faculty of chemistry there. Not only that, but he was the director and professor at the Universidad…

Ernest Rutherford was born in rural Spring Grove, on the South Island of New Zealand on August 30, 1871. He was the fourth of 12 children, and the second son. His father, James, had little education and struggled to support the large family on a flax-miller’s income. Ernest’s mother, Martha, worked as a schoolteacher. She believed that knowledge was power, and placed a strong emphasis on her children’s education. At age of ten at Foxhill School Ernest Rutherford received his first science book.…

My research objective is to find the birth places of Ernest and Emma Kundig. My first step, I took was to visit Ancestry. I searched the 1920 United States Federal Census. I decided this must be my first step since it was the only source the client had about their ancestor. I discovered from this census that Ernest and Emma immigrated to the United States in 1893. Another piece of information, I learned from the census was the birthplace of Ernest and Emma. He was born in Switzerland…

It all started in the late 16th century. The Enlightenment “is” also “known” as “The Age Of Reason”. Numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars, and revolutions were produced. Rene` Descartes, John Locke, and Denis Diderot to name a few thinkers/ philosophers that were apart of the Enlightenment which was based of the ways that they vision how society was built on. The revolution of algebra and geometry was produced by Rene` Descartes. Being the youngest out of three…

According to Science Buddies Staffs, “Take a Musical Step Back in Time: Make Your Own Phonograph From Everyday Items,” in the year 1877, Thomas Edison successfully built the phonograph. The phonograph, back then consisted of turning a cylinder wrapped with paraffin paper or tinfoil, a needle, and horn. The use of a phonograph was to first connect the stylus(needle) to the paper or tinfoil, then yell into the horn while spinning the diaphragm, this results in indentions in the paper, after that…