Archimedes Background/Upbringing - Paper

Archimedes was a Greek Mathematician from Syracuse, Italy. He was an astronomer, physicist, inventor, and an engineer. Minimal details of his life are yet to be discovered, but his achievement of being the leader of scientists in the classical antiquity. Over the years of his life, Archimedes obtained as much knowledge as he could from his teachers and then decided to travel an extremity to Egypt and there began his study of Alexandria. In a lapse of time Archimedes earned a scholarship and he was known for having a great reputation. When he was done with studying and traveling he returned home to continue in the path of invention and thought. Many legends compare to how Archimedes was a replica of King Hero II. Archimedes was also

A Biographical Analysis of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is a somewhat lengthy poem concerning the paranormal activities of a sea mariner and his crew. The work was constructed to be the beginning piece in Lyrical Ballads, a two-volume set written by William Wordsworth and Coleridge. Wordsworth intended to, in his volume, make the ordinary seem extraordinary, while Coleridge aimed to make the extraordinary ordinary. “The Rime” was first published in 1798. Despite the current popularity of the piece, it was harshly criticized upon being first published.

Have you ever wondered why your cereal clusters together after milk is poured or why it sticks to the side of your bowl? Even if you try to pull them apart, they come together again. This is a spectacle that happens every day but we just don’t really notice it. Most people don’t really realize that it’s happening everyday. Using fluid mechanics, we can determine why floating objects come together due to surface tension, viscosity and buoyancy (Grayson, 2014).

Socrates was born around 470 BC in Athens, Greece. His life was not well documented. There are only a few sources the contain any insight into Socrates's life—the plays of Aristophanes and the dialogues of Plato and Xenophon. Since these sources main purpose was not to record his life, it is most likely that these sources are not entirely accurate in regard to the details of Socrates’ life.

INTRODUCTION: Density is the mass per unit volume of a substance. It is the measure of the amount of matter in a substance per amount of space the substance occupies. The mass is measured using a spring scale and the volume is measured one of two ways: either using the formula (π(d)2*h)/4 or by measuring the volume of water displaced by the substance in a graduated cylinder (end volume-start volume). According to scienceclarified.com,1 the principle that water displacement, and therefore volume, effects density is the reason a ship can float on water. Though steel is denser than water and any substance denser than water would generally sink in water, a ship displaces enough water that the mass of the water displaced is greater than the mass of the ship. This alters the ship’s density, and volume, despite the density of the steel that the ship comprises.

“.... His father, Cleinias, was famous for the part he played in the sea battle at Artemisium in a trireme he had equipped at his own expense, and died later at Coronea in a battle against the Boeotians. Pericles and Ariphron, the sons of Xanthippus, who were closely related to Alcibiades, then became his guardians.”(Plutarch. Greek Lives p. 222).

Archimedes was born in Syracuse on the Island of Sicily in 287 BC. His father’s name was Phidias and was believed to be somewhat related to the king of Syracuse, Heiro II. Archimedes is famously known as multiple things including a mathematician, inventor, engineer, and astronomer. Moving to Alexandria in his later life, he studied at a school established by Euclid. Afterwards he returned to Syracuse, spending the majority of his life solving mathematical problems and making new inventions for the king. In 212 BC, Syracuse was overtaken by one of Archimedes enemies. When a soldier came to Archimedes demanding that he go with him, Archimedes refused, saying that he needed to first finish his mathematical equation. Upon hearing this, the soldier

To start off, buoyancy, density, and floating, are all important to liquid substances. Conspicuously, the information about floating. For an object to float, it has to have a smaller density than the substance it’s floating in. For example, anything with a density level lower than one will float in water, because water has a density of approximately 1.0.

Archimedes was a son of a mathematician and astronomer whose name was Phidias. Archimedes was born in 287 BC in the city Syracuse on the island of Sicily. Along with Newton and Gauss, Archimedes was known as one of the three greatest mathematicians of all time. He was referred to as the “wise one” or “the master.” However, the most popular was the “great geometer”. His interest in solving problems was enough for him to sometimes forget when to eat. He was a student at Euclid’s school in order to expand his knowledge in math. Archimedes fascination in math was so great that he would draw on anything whether I’d be dirt, dust or anything that was available. Archimedes fame came through King Hiero, Archimedes would always solve conflicts

Archimedes of Syracuse is not only known for his work as a mathematician, but he was also known for all his inventions. However, Archimedes is known as one of most significant mathematicians of all times. He is responsible for nine extant treatises. One of the major inventions by Archimedes are the Integral Calculus, Exponents and an accurate approximation of pi. As of today, the inventions done by Archimedes have changed and evolved the basis of mathematics.

The Law of the Lever is one of Archimedes more prestigious discoveries. When he made his discovery the fulcrum was already in use. However Archimedes was the first to discover that a longer lever made lifting easier. Storys say that Archimedes once said, “Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world.” Another extremely important innovation by Archimedes was the pulley. He created a complex system of pulleys that allowed him to lift almost anything. Another story says that a team of men, after great effort dragged a trireme onto the beach.The men all boarded the ship along with their animals and Archimedes was able to lift the ship and move it easily by himself. The Archimedes Screw was another impressive invention by Archimedes. The screw is massive and capable of lifting water from the ground. It is still used today in some third-world countries.Other inventions by Archimedes included, the concept of buoyancy. He proved that, when building boats, the material does not matter so much as how spread out it is. Archimedes was also the first person to accurately estimate the value of pi. These are only a few of Archimedes most prestigious achievements. As previously stated, many of the works of Archimedes have been lost, however imagine what other incredible feats of engineering this man may have

He wanted to calculate this in order to challenge himself since he had already mastered the other aspects of mathematics that were known during that time. He used principles found in "integral calculus that would not be founded for another 1800 years (Famous Scientists)". Archimedes began this calculation by imagining a sphere dissected into "two hemispheres which would be placed on a flat surface, then enclosed by a cylinder. Next he imagined making two vertical slices down the sides of the cylinder and multiplied the number of blue rings from the cylinder by their depth to find the volume (Famous Scientists)". If Archimedes had considered an infinite number of blue rings, he would have invented integral calculus 1800 years before Isaac Newton. Using the information that he knew already about the volume of a cylinder and his new knowledge of the relativity between a cylinder and a sphere, he was able to come up with a formula to solve the volume of a sphere. He believed this was his greatest achievement to such an extent that he "requested a sphere with a cylinder placed on his tombstone (Famous

Newton and Archimedes were two well known mathematicians and physicists that contributed greatly to our knowledge of mathematics. Both men were alike, yet different. This essay will discuss the lives and findings of both Newton and Archimedes, compare them, and contrast them.

The advent of the screw propeller changed all of this and made steamers increasingly viable. Though she still bore sails, Archimedes was the world’s first screw-propelled steamship. Built in 1839 in Britain, she had considerable influence on the development of ships and shipping in the years to come.

The last days of Archimedes life was amidst a very long war. Archimedes died in 212 BC during the Second Punic War, which was when a roman force under the command of General Marcus Claudius Marcellus captured the city of Syracuse, which the siege ended up lasting for two years long. According to an account from Plutarch, Archimedes was working on a mathematical diagram while the city was being under attacked and captured. The Roman soldier commanded that Archimedes come with him and meet General Marcellus but Archimedes declined the offer. The soldier did not want to hear it and being frustrated he killed Archimedes with a sword. The account that Plutarch gave isn’t very clear, because assumably he may have been killed while trying to surrender to a Roman Soldier. General Marcellus was angered by the death of Archimedes, because he saw him as a valuable scientific asset and he actually had previously order him not to be dead.