Origins of the Universe 1.Identify the current theory of the formation of the universe. The big bang theory. 2.Describe the Doppler effect. The Doppler Effect is when waves moving away from you have a longer wavelength (lowpitch) and waves moving towards you have a shorter wavelength (high pitch) 3.Explain how the Doppler effect gives us information about the movement of stars andgalaxies. Stars moving away from us are red shifted (light of longer wavelength) while stars movingtowards us are
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Nicolaus Copernicus By: Jenny For over 1‚000 years‚ everyone thought everything revolved around the earth‚ but Nicolaus Copernicus had a different idea that we base off of still today. He was a doctor and a church amidisteror‚ but still‚ impressively‚ put in time for his favorite thing‚ astrology. Copernicus was born on February 19‚ 1473 in Torun‚ Poland. He was born into a very wealthy merchant family of six. His dad passed away when he was 10. His uncle then took him under his wing promising
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Persian Bead drapes and so it was easy for a young boy like me to slip in and out. Here I spent many happy hours. Parting the curtain one was confronted by an immense‚ solid dark wood‚ custom wardrobe. It was adorned with many animal carvings cut from the very wood of its three doors. They were mythical creatures‚ such as gargoyles‚ griffins‚ sphinxes‚ chimeras‚ and many more. This wardrobe was most impressive and almost smothered the room. There were two more pieces of furniture. A heavy‚ dark
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Math Sir Isaac Newton On Christmas day in 1642 a premature baby by the name of Isaac Newton was born. Isaac was born in Woolsthorpe‚ Lincolnshire‚ England and attended day school there while living with his grandmother. When Isaac was about thirteen‚ he went away to Grammar School in Grantham where he noticed his interest in chemicals. In 1661‚ he went to Cambridge University and stayed there until 1696 (with some gaps due to the plague). Within his Cambridge years‚ Isaac
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Scientific Racism Scientific racism is termed as the use of a set of certain beliefs‚ theories‚ or ways of thinking in order to justify or classify ‚ individuals who show different characteristics or traits into separate races. From the beginning of European expansion and colonization‚ some questions had started to be raised about whether the indigenous people that were being discovered in the New World
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Existence Of Matter In The Universe What is the Universe made of and what evidence s there for this ? The universe consists of billions of galaxies that each contain billions of stars. Around some stars Planets and moons trace elliptical orbits. Within these orbits there are spherical bodies. These range in size from large asteroids to tiny particles smaller than a grain of dust‚ all of this is classified as baryonic matter by Astronomers. The fundamental core of the universe is known as the atom
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Briefly explain what is meant by the “scientific revolution” that took place in seventeenth century Europe‚ and how it marked a departure from ancient and medieval philosophy. The term Scientific Revolution refers to a period in the 17th century when the intellects of Europe had a revolution. This was an illustrious time for science and the initiation of modern science. During that period famous people such as Copernicus‚ Galileo‚ Kepler‚ and Isaac Newton all lived and contributed greatly to
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How the Universe Inspires Me Supergiants‚ the largest objects in the universe‚ with diameters more than ten thousand times larger than our sun‚ and up to a million times brighter. Supernovae‚ the most violent and powerful naturally occurring events in the universe‚ releasing up to an astounding 100*1044 joules of energy‚ a number we humans cannot even begin to visualize. Black holes‚ specks of matter with theoretically no volume‚ yet with a gravitational force so strong that not even light can escape
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The Scientific Revolution is a period of time from the mid-16th century to the late 18th century in which rationalism and scientific progress made astounding leaps forward. The way man saw the heavens‚ understood the world around him‚ and healed his own body dramatically changed. So did the way he understood God and the Church. The result was a revolution in both the sense of causing an upheavalof ideasand consisting of not just one‚ but many scientific advancements. This paper will look first
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Glogovac 1 Bianca Glogovac Ms. Gysin English 102 21st April 2013 How Did Walt Disney Create Mickey Mouse? The public is filled with Disney products and endorsements. Disneyland is known as the happiest place on Earth and all in thanks to the creator‚ Walt Disney. Children now look up to Disney as a source of hope‚ faith and inspiration for the future. Disney left behind tracks to what a child needs to grow and to become happy with the idea that magic exists. His first creation was brought
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