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    In the movie ““A Walk to Remember”,”, starring Shane West and Mandy Moore, the opening scene is located in a North Carolina small town where the well-liked and rebellious juvenile Landon Carter is approached with the possibility of being put out of his school because he and his friends have left proof of drinking which is illegal on the varsity grounds, which have gone on to seriously injure another student as the prank went wrong. The principal of school provides Landon with the option or selection

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    • 710 BC • Nimrud lens • The Nimrud lens – a piece of rock crystal – may have been used as a magnifying glass or as a burning-glass to start fires by concentrating sunlight. • 1000 AD • Reading stone • The first vision aid, called a reading stone, is invented. It is a glass sphere placed on top of text, which it magnifies to aid readability. • 1021 AD • Book of Optics • Muslim scholar Ibn al-Haytham writes hisBook of Optics. It eventually transforms how light and vision are understood. • 1284

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    1) Purpose: To learn how to use and analyze images under a compound light microscope. 2) Background Research: According to "The Microscope ." The Parts of a Microscope. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2015. , it gives the definition of different parts of a compound light microscope. According to the source it states,” The compound microscope has two systems of lenses for greater magnification, 1) the ocular, or eyepiece lens that one looks into and 2) the objective lens, or the lens closest to

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    Summarise the differences between how the Light Microscope, Transmission Electron Microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope work; Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each type of microscope. The three different types of microscope all work very differently. They all have limitations as to what can and cannot be seen through them and two key factors as to why this is are magnification and resolution. Magnification determines how closely we can look at the object, whereas resolution presents

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    b) Why are astronomers using radio telescopes looking for far stars instead of a telescope?       First of all, what is a radio telescope? The first non-visual spectral region that was used extensively for astronomical observations was the radio frequency band. Telescopes observing at these wavelengths are commonly called radio telescopes. Radio telescopes may be made much larger than optical/infrared telescopes because the wavelengths of radio waves are much longer than

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    After its birth, glass becomes one kind of useful material in people’s physical life. It has one unique nature that, after some little modifications, it can be qualified to accomplish totally different tasks, for example serving as windows and mirrors, to benefit the people who use it. Meanwhile, towards people’s mental experience, the communication is similar to glass in nature, and plays the same role. In such a modern and pluralistic society, the accelerating pace of life and the increasing amount

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    that kept my curiosity sharp. In these times in wonder and awe I had found out a way to study the moon with more and more magnification I invested in a telescope a refracting celestron seeker telescope. This investment lead to the exploration of space on the top of my roof. This new telescope was expensive but an experience that only a telescope could bring to the mind or a curious stargazer. This tool I had was about 6 feet tall at its tallest height. It was solid black in cooler and it was pretty

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    Introduction to the History of space exploration To start the researching of the future of the space exploration the very first thing we should do is to look through a history of this particular topic. The main reason for this is because the history is a fundamental background for our understanding and knowledge. Aeronautical engineering does not have a long and deep history, compared to many things. Moreover, some information cannot be proved nowadays and that is why the only one thing that we can

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    Microscope and Mitosis Prelab Christie Jansen Arapahoe Community College Summery The purpose of this lab is to insure that all students understand how to correctly use the microscope. Students will all learn proper care and handling of the microscope, as well as learning the correct way to look at slides and specimens through the microscope. Part A- Microscope Parts Scanning objective - These lenes start out at 4X, which mean 4 times 10 magnification, making the lense a 40 magnification

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    object he is referring to the the telescope the Dutch lens make built. Galileo built his own in 1609, used it to study space, the stars, and “The “Heavens”. Was Galileo more revolutionary than Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe or any philosopher of that time period? Yes, Galileo was more revolutionary than any of those philosophers because he found and did things that wasn’t accepted during that time period. What did he do? As briefly said before he improved the telescope. As to popular belief, Galileo

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