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    They began to form a new constitution with multiple changes; however‚ they first had to create compromises so that both the small as well as large states would be pleased with their new system. These compromises include the Great Compromise‚ the Three-Fifths Compromise‚ and the compromise over commerce‚ all leading to a stronger country. With the Articles of Confederation‚ each state‚ no matter what size‚ got one vote when making important decisions. The delegates from large states were opposed

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    The Universe

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    Humans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. "This part of the universe is called the solar system‚ and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun." (Skywatching 230) The solar system is the earth ’s neighbourhood and the planets Mercury‚ Venus‚ Mars‚ Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ Neptune and Pluto are the Earth ’s neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun. Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago‚ perhaps when

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    Galileo and Newton

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    Galileo and Newton 2/4/97 Galileo believed the physical world to be bounded. He says that all material things have "this or that shape" and are small or large in relation to other things. He also says that material objects are either in motion or at rest‚ touching or not touching some other body‚ and are either one in number‚ or many. The central properties of the material world are mathematical and strengthened through experimentation. Galileo excludes the properties of tastes‚ odors‚ colors

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    Isaac Newton once said‚ “I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”  Explain this statement and explain how Newton was the product of time and circumstance. When Isaac Newton said‚ “I have stood on the shoulders of giants‚” he demonstrated that he knew his place in the scientific community. In the relay race of astronomic science‚ Newton was the last of the runners to be passed the baton‚ and he‚ adding to the work of many great scientific minds before him‚ sprinted the home stretch. Newton understood

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    because he is the only person that had an influence on the Scientific Revolution that was most interesting to me. He came up with the law of the pendulum. He is very different from any other person who had influence on the scientific revolution. Galileo’s theory instantly made him famous. Throughout my report I will inform about the significance and influence Galileo had on the Scientific Revolution. Galileo was the inventor of the scientific method. As well as studying the phases of Venus and discovering

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    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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    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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    housewife. His one brother died at the age of sixteen from cerebral aneurism. Skinner continued to be an outstanding but curious child. As a child‚ he made a flotation device that separated fresh berries from mature berries. It assisted in his selling of berries from door to door. His later inventions included the air crib‚ cumulative recorder‚ operant conditioning chamber‚ teaching machine and the pigeon guided missile. Skinner went to college in New York‚ where he majored in English Literature and

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    Isaac Newton

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    Isaac Newton is considered to be one of the greatest theoretical and scientific minds of our world. The year that Galileo died‚ Isaac newton was born in Woolsthorpe Manor‚ his family’s estate‚ in Lincolnshire‚ England on January 4th‚ 1643 as a premature baby. Isaac was very frail and sickly. The women and housemaids didn’t even hurry to bring medicine to help him because nobody expected him to survive. But miraculously he did survive. Isaac’s father‚ Isaac Newton Sr.‚ had died few months before his

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    The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact was written by Ludwick Fleck in 1935 to predict the truth of scientific facts. Fleck discusses the way in which scientific facts develop and changes over time. According to Fleck‚ scientific facts are developed through the human cognition and through a social construction. Cognition is a social activity. As information passes from one person to another‚ it loses its original intent or meaning. The thought is changed as it passes from one individual

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