Physics education

The Shapley-Curtis debate began when Harlow Shapley accurately described the vastness of the Milky Way, but incorrectly stated that the Milky Way was the only galaxy which existed inside the universe, and that the Sun was the centre of the Milky Way, not the universe. Shapley's contender, Heber Curtis, argued that the Milky Way was not the only galaxy in the universe. He believed that other, far more vast galaxies, existed as well. His counter-evidence was in the spiral nebulae found outside the

Choice in Naturalist and Realist Works Part of human nature is believing that an individual has choice in what happens in his or her life. A literary style emerging after Romanticism, Realism, and a sub-genre of this style, Regionalism both argued that free will is existent among humans, even if this free will is limited. A literary style that was influenced by Darwinism, Naturalism, posited that choice is an illusion and an individual has no say in what happens in his or her life. Both of these

to doubt my future in that field. I despised math with a burning passion. Pre-AP pre-calculus was the death of me academically. I, who had taken nothing but Pre-AP and AP courses where it could be taken, had intentionally decided to take a regular physics course rather than an accelerated course because I knew the involvement of math in the course. I could barely handle the amount of math courses I had to do in middle and high school, forget doing it for the rest of my life. It was at this point in

Johannes Kepler was one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. Despite him not as well-known as that of his predecessors, Kepler’s discoveries laid the foundation for future discoveries and advancements in the field of astronomy we have today. Kepler was born December 27, 1571 in a rather small, Catholic town in southern Germany called Weil der Stadt. Kepler was born as the eldest of three children who died in infancy. An early bout with smallpox, the same thing that had killed his siblings

This book helped a lot of people understand physics better and taught them new physics as well. He made this book at Royal Academy after 18 months of non stop work on it. It affected Robert Hooke and everyone in science, but Robert Hooke accused him of stealing Hooke’s work. But Newton strongly defended his own work

Sir Isaac Newton was an extremely influential physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. While Sir Isaac Newton is best known for his work on gravity, he also worked on many other scientific breakthroughs during his lifetime, such as the 3 laws of motion and the discovery of the color spectrum. Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He attended Trinity College in Cambridge, England. He stayed there from 1661 to 1665 to earn his bachelor’s degree. He stayed

Director Robert Zemeckis has many trademarks in his movies such as his protagonist getting in a bar fight, rarely using a fixed camera, and often casting the same actors in various movies (Robert Zemeckis). Many of Zemeckis’s movies, like Forrest Gump, Castaway, Back to the Future, and Back to the Future Part II cover years long time periods throughout the course of the movie. These four movies all have in common the fact that because of the long amount of time that the films cover and a change in

SECTION A Astronomy is the science of everything which can be included in the too small a term for such huge a thing called Universe.Astronomy has always fascinated me as a child and even now.I can remember many a day when I , a small little 6 year old, would stare into the starry sky and wonder what lies beyond the skies. Back then though I would make small childish stories about what I thought would be on the moon and all the stars.Now through these Astronomy lessons I can learn about everything

Danielle Shearon Dr. Dorn Chemistry 19 July 2015 John Dalton “John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory; and his research into color blindness, sometimes referred to as Daltonism, in his honor.” English chemist's and physicist, was born September 6, 1766 at Eagles field. His father, Joseph Dalton, was a weaver who, with his wife had three children; Jonathan, John and Mary. John took after

Luckily, I had a class that I used to relieve all my stress in, Algebra 1. I didn’t need to know English to understand numbers. Math has been my favorite subject since forever and that time was not the exception. I understood every single problem the teacher explained from the first example. I was really into that class that one day the teacher noticed that I had potential. So after a month or so he recommended me to take Algebra 2 instead. I decided to give it a try. Furthermore, I started working