beth Delgado Professor Bentsen PHY-120-500 December 2‚ 2014 The Physics of Sci-Fi: Thor I Thor is a superhero film released in 2011 by Marvel Studios. The film begins in 965 A.D. when the king of Asgard‚ Odin‚ goes to war against Laufey‚ leader of the Frost Giants of Jotunheim‚ to prevent them from conquering the nine realms. The film the continues to tell the story of Thor‚ prince of Asgard‚ whose ceremony to ascend to the throne was interrupted when the Frost Giants attempted to retrieve the Casket
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The Three Major Conflicts 1. Conflict between Newton’s law of motion and Maxwell’s law of electromagnetism: • Newton’s laws---run fast enough‚ you can catch up a beam of light. • Maxwell’s electromagnetism---no matter how hard you chase after a light beam‚ it still retreats from you at light speed. • This conflict gave birth to special theory of relativity • According to special relativity‚ space and time depend on one’s state of motion. 1 2. Conflict between Einstein’s
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Physics (from Greek φυσική (ἐπιστήμη)‚ i.e. "knowledge of nature"‚ from φύσις‚ physis‚ i.e. "nature"[1][2][3][4][5]) is the natural science that involves the study of matter[6] and its motion through space and time‚ along with related concepts such as energy and force.[7] More broadly‚ it is the general analysis of nature‚ conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.[8][9][10] Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines‚ perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy
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1. John Earman Philosopher 2. John Earman (born 1942) is a philosopher of physics. He is an emeritus professor in the History and Philosophy of Science department at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught at UCLA‚ the Rockefeller University‚ and the University of Minnesota‚ and was president of the Philosophy of Science Association. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1968.[1] 3. Born: March 30‚ 1942 (age 72) 4. Education: Princeton University (1968) 5. Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship
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[10] V. Tarokh‚ N. Seshadri‚ and A. R. Calderbank‚ “Spacetime codes for high data rate wireless communication: Performance criterion and code construction‚” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory‚ vol. 44‚ pp. 744–765‚ March 1998. [11] V. Tarokh‚ H. Jafarkhani‚ and A. R. Calderbank‚ “Spacetime block codes from orthogonal designs‚” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory‚ vol. 45‚ pp. 1456–1467‚ July 1999. [12] G. Ganesan and P. Stoica‚ “Spacetime block codes: A maximum snr approach‚” IEEE Transactions
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Today I will introduce a famous and outstanding scientist to you. A brief history of Stephen Hawking. The main contents include four aspects Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist‚ whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford‚ England. His parents’ house was in north London‚ but during the Second World War Oxford was considered
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HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY AND OMEGA TRIANGLES Hyperbolic geometry was first discovered and explored by Omar Khayyam in the 9th century and Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri in the 15th century. Both were attempting to prove Euclid’s parallel postulate by proving the concept of hyperbolic geometry to be inconsistent‚ and ironically they discovered it to be a new type of geometry. It wasn’t until the 19th century that it became fully developed with help from Karl Friedrich Gauss‚ Janos Bolyai‚ and Nikolai
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Life cycle of a star Every star has a life cycle just like a human or a frog except stars do it on a much larger scale. Stars start life as a massive cloud of matter and then get pulled together to create a star. But stars do not last forever most stars last for millions of years but they still end. When a stars life ends it may explode or implode to create a black hole. The reason stars even start life and end life is because of nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is a reaction where matter is forced
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Nikhil Jain Professor Kornreich Astronomy 1105 10 July 2015 Analyzing the Science of Science Fiction As our knowledge of the universe expands‚ so does our imagination. Today’s science fiction movies‚ such as Interstellar‚ are based on new discoveries and research that older movies‚ such as 2001: A Space Odyssey‚ did not have. However‚ both movies stayed true to science‚ etc My goal in this paper is to discuss the accuracy of the physics and astronomy in Interstellar‚ and compare it to 2001: A Space
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Physics (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη) phusikḗ (epistḗmē) “knowledge of nature”‚ from φύσις phúsis "nature"[1][2][3]) is the natural science that involves the study of matter[4] and its motion through space and time‚ along with related concepts such as energy and force.[5] More broadly‚ it is the general analysis of nature‚ conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.[a][6][7] Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines‚ perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy
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