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    Research Question Is the Physics in the movie Gravity accurate? Does it adhere to Newton’s laws? Introduction The purpose of this task is to find out if the science behind certain scenes in the movie Gravity is accurate, compared to what Newton’s laws suggest would happen in real life. The film Gravity is largely set in space, 600km above the Earth – according to the movie. Hypothesis The Physics in the movie Gravity is accurate, as it complies with Newton’s Laws of Motion in the context of…

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    Results and dissection 3.1 Transition metal complexes of the macrocyclic, H6L Ligand 3.1.1 The macrocyclic, H6L Ligand The physical and analytical data of the macrocyclic, H6L ligand and its transition metal complexes were shown in Table 1. From the investigation, the expected structure of H6L with its possible toutomeric forms can be represented as shown in Figure 1. H6L ligand is highly symmetric under the point group C2v symmetry and can show all the normal modes of vibrations by solving…

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    INTRODUCTION • Energy is a scalar quantity. • It was first hypothesized by Newton to express kinetic and potential energies. • We cannot observe energy directly, but we can measure it using indirect methods and analyze its value. • Energy may be in different forms, such as potential, kinetic, magnetic or electrical. Potential energy of a system is by virtue of its location with respect to gravitational field. If an object has a mass m, located at elevation h, and acceleration due to gravity is g…

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    Pierre Bourdieu was born on 1 August 1930 in Denguin, France. He attained a degree in philosophy and was also the gold medalist of the National Centre for Scientific Research. Throughout his life, he contributed to various areas of discussions and involvements that include art and culture, education, language and methodology (Grenfell 2012:12-14). Bourdieu was also influenced by Karl Marx and adapted his theories to elaborate further on capital in regards to class divisions. Similar to Marx,…

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    J.J Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill, a suburban area in Manchester, England on December 18, 1856. Thomson was a Nobel Prize winning physicist with his research that helped discover the electrons of an atom. J.J Thomson full name was Joseph John Thomson, He was an English physicist and mathematician. Joseph Thomson was considered to be a prodigy at his time, becoming the first to be 14 and attending college. Joseph Thomson’s father was a book seller who intended Thomson to become an engineer.…

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    Mauritas Cornelis Escher, also known as M. C. Escher, has been a well-known for his spectacular art of illusions. Born on June 17th, 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, his father wished for him to try to learn to become a carpenter and try other crafting skills (World of Mathematics 1). When he was out of elementary, he did not graduate from secondary school. He went to multiple schools to find his interest and when he was in the School of Architecture Ornamental Design located in Haarlem,…

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    On the Subject of Quantum Teleportation “Beam me up, Scotty” Captain James T. Kirk exclaims, as he narrowly escapes a macabre fate at the hands of the Klingon army. A beam of light is cast down onto the captain, instantaneously transporting him aboard the safety of his own starship. This technology, employing the use of teleportation, has saved many U.S.S. Enterprise crew members lives’ throughout countless episodes of the Sci-Fi TV series Star Trek. Teleportation being largely fictional at the…

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    Who Is Rosalind Franklin?

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    Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a chemist and she was born in London England on July 25th, 1920. At just the age of 15 Rosalind Elsie Franklin decided she wanted to be a scientist. Receiving her education at several schools which also includes North London Collegiate School which she excelled in science. She was best known for the role she played in the the discovery of the structure of DNA, also her pioneering the use of X-ray diffraction. Franklin enrolled at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1938…

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    Julius Robert Oppenheimer is remembered as a well-renowned citizen-scientist whose efforts in the field of theoretical and experimental physics produced a cornerstone in weapon development and the knowledge of the atom, but what can we say accounted for Oppenheimer’s success in his endeavors? Was it his drive for the knowledge of science, or was it the patriotism he had for his country that drove him to work endlessly on the creation of the atomic bomb? In an article in Modern American Poetry…

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    The Spirit Phone After the carnage of World War I, spiritualism was undergoing a revival, and many people hoped science could provide a means to contact lost loved ones. Edison himself was not a believer and admitted he had no idea if a spirit world even existed. Edison corresponded with British inventor Sir William Crookes, who claimed to have captured images on "spirit photographs." Edison was intrigued. Edison took the idea of the telephone and the telegraph a bit further and announced in…

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