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    December 25, 1642 (Julian Calendar) in Woolsthorpe, England. His parents were Hannah Ayscough and Isaac Newton, unfortunately three months before he was born his father died. His mother remarried another man, leaving him with his grandmother. Newton’s education started at The King’s School, which was located in Grantham, where he began to learn math, greek, and latin. He stayed at The King’s School for around five years until he was removed

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    Over the past summer during my Stock Market program at Columbia, I befriended a girl named Maria. After a few icebreakers, I learned that Maria actually lives in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, the country famous for wooden shoes, tulips and windmills, and so much more as I learnt from her. Maria explained that throughout Amsterdam there are many small cafes – with more variety than just Starbucks - that she goes to do classwork, meet up with friends, or just enjoy a refreshing cup of hot chocolate

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    On the brink of discovery there is a thrilling glow of hope and promise. The hope of a betterment of life as it is and the promise of something new and exciting. The turn of the twentieth century was this threshold of opportunity and anticipation, and a booming era for scientists and inventors alike. Between 1900 and 1920 a plethora of modern day conveniences and concepts were brought to life. Without this unique period in time civilization might have had to do without escalators, Gillette’s

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    Projectile Motion Lab

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    Projectile Motion Lab Report Objective: The purpose of this experiment was to find out whether an object, in our case a basketball, accelerated in both the horizontal and vertical directions, or just one direction. The main question that we based this experiment on was, "Does an object accelerate in the x position as well as the y position, or just in one axis?". We hypothesized was that there would be acceleration in both axes because of the motion of the free falling object. Method: The procedure

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    Middle Range Theory Essay

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    1. Discuss middle range theory. Middle range theory is conceptual framework connecting raw archaeological data with higher-level generalizations and conclusions about the past which can be derived from such evidence. A theory concerned with explaining specific issues or aspects of society instead of trying to explain how all of society operates.() Middle range theory was first established in sociolofy in the late 1940’s by R.K. Merton as a way of dealing with issues present in the new sociological

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    thoughtless approval of the masses”-Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was one of the most vital scientist in the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution was a boom of scientist that discovered a lot of important things in mathematics, biology, physics, and astronomy from 1550-1700. Johannes Kepler was born on December 20, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Germany. At the age of four, he developed smallpox. Although he recovered, he was left with a side effects of crippled hands and horrible eyesight

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    Mayan Math History

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    Like each other part of human advancement, mathematics has its own particular birthplace focused around the needs of humanity in searching for understanding. Mathematics emerged from the necessity to quantify time and number. The earliest evidence of counting occurred in mountains of Africa were notched bones and scored pieces of wood and stone were discovered. As human advancements started to surface in Asia and the near east, frameworks and essential appreciation of arithmetic, geometry and polynomial

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    Leonard Mandel, an extraordinary magnate optical scientist of his time, was a powerful voice on behalf of physics. He was the Lee DuBridge Professor of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester: a masterful scientist, exemplary teacher, generous colleague, and beloved family man. He is perhaps one of the most amazing founding fathers of what we call; quantum optics, evolving into the revolution of so called “most exciting areas in science.” He trained society’s understanding of quantum mechanics

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    In 1961, computers were still infancy, and the race to the moon had just begun. Edward Lorenz one of the first proponents of chaos theory developed a weather prediction model and found out that the smallest changes at the one millionth of the decimal point can make his predictions useless, he called this result as butterfly effect. The butterfly effect is a theoretical example of chaos theory. The main premise of latter is that small changes in initial condition results in vast differences in final

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    sports especially track and field and he even broke records there. Hubble received a scholarship to attend the University of Chicago in 1906. He worked as a lab assistant for Robert Millikan, who later won a Nobel Prize for his work in the field of physics. After graduating in 1910, Hubble left Chicago went to the University of Oxford, where he studied law philosophy. Then, 3 years later graduated and around the same time his dad died.(Bio.com;Wikipedia)

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