Newton's laws of motion

When water is added to the bottle, it also adds compacted air. In Newton’s third law, it mentions that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That is exactly what happened the rocket during the lab. The rocket and the compressed air pushed the water down, and once the rocket was release, Newton’s third law came into play, and caused the water to push back up, launching the rocket up into the air. The rocket Twix Kix was tested…

Isaac Newton rough draft By: Kelsie Argueta. Did you know Isaac Newton almost gave up on his education before discovering the laws of motion? Isaac Newton was a phenomenal scientist with memorable achievements that will be forever taught in schools and in many more parts of the world. He made significant contributions to various fields of science and mathematics. He was an English physicist, mathematician, and one of the most important thinkers in the scientific revolution. He was born in 1642…

Who is Galileo Galilei? Galileo Galilei was a famous physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and philosopher from a very important part of the renaissance called the scientific revolution. He was born on the 15th of February in Pisa, Italy. When he was young his father sent him to school to study medicine at the university of Pisa, but quickly got bored and decided to study mathematics instead. He later became a professor at the university, and went on to discover a lot more about…

Project Egg Launch is designed for K-12 students. The project includes many features to help students understand the principles of engineering design while increasing their awareness towards applying basic physics concepts. In addition, the students are given an kinesthetic way of learning by the hands-on experience of building an egg enclosure. Project Egg Launch is a project that students will enjoy and get the chance to actively problem solve and build. Team 6-1 has the plan to get students…

This goes along with Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion- an object in motion or at rest stays in that state unless compelled to change its state by an outside force. The egg stays at rest until the pendulum hits the box, sending the box as well as the rubber exercise band and egg inside of it in motion. The egg goes with the momentum of the rubber band, the rubber band goes with the momentum of the box, and the box…

The four fundamental forces have been around before mankind. These forces shape the way we live and interact with the objects around us on a daily basis. These forces are so important, they are in existence throughout the entire universe. Black holes, the formation of planets, galaxies and stars are all because of gravity and these same celestial bodies have their own electromagnetic forces and the strong and weak nuclear forces are. Since everything in the universe is made of atoms, there is…

describes that “it’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong”, using emotive diction to instil this similar sense of excitement in the audience. This theme coincides with the allusions to The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Valentine claims that “we’re all going to end up at room temperature”. However, rather than referring to physical temperature, this is an allegory for the thirst for knowledge and truth. Arcadia uses heat as an extended metaphor…

believe that the texts from Plato and Aristotle have greater impacts in my reflection on knowledge, though much of Newton’s theories we now use have undoubtedly changed our understanding of the universe. This is because Plato and Aristotle existed long before Newton, and without the beginning of their findings, we can say that Newton would not have been able to come up with the laws of motion that early and his way of acquiring knowledge would not have been the…

On August 11 the world lost Howard Brody, a physics professor who worked at the University of Pennsylvania. He died at the age of 83 and left behind a series of findings that made him known as “the world’s foremost physicist of tennis,” as said by Margalit Fox in her NY Times article. Howard focused his professional work on particle physics until the size of a tennis racket caused him to investigate the sport even further. He was specifically curious about how the tennis ball would hit the…

The scientific community throughout history and the scientific revolution have been focused on the legitimacy of scientific claims, as new advancements constantly change the way the scientists observe and understand principles. That which may have been true in the past could change to a false concept. Rossi explains this through Thomas Edison and his development of the light bulb. “Until the nineteenth-century invention of the light bulb it was an accepted truth that illumination was produced by…