Book Report on The Flying Circus of Physics with Answers Book Title : The Flying Circus of Physics with Answers Author : Jearl Walker Translator : 葉å‰æ–‡ Publisher : Commonwealth Publishing Co. Ltd. No. of pages : 273 The collection of The Flying Circus of Physics with Answers contains three books, and the one I read is the Chinese version of the first book. It has many questions and answers on various topics, and in this book, it is about Force and Waves. These questions are usually about phenomena happening around us. For example, some kind of a pattern can be seen if you shine light vertically onto the surface of a cup of hot tea. That is because if the bottom part of the tea is hotter than the surface, hot waves will rise while the colder ones will go to the bottom, and therefore produces the pattern. Sometimes the patterns look like those of the honeycombs and sometimes look like clouds. Also, there is actually a differential between the two left-right wheels in the car, and so allow the outer wheels rotate faster than the inner ones and thus the car can make a turn. Have you ever played a game like this before? You are given a pendulum and a glass bottle. You should swing the pendulum in a way that it will not touch the bottle in the first swing, but will knock down the bottle when it swings back! But actually you can hardly do this without knocking out the bottle on the first swing, unless you turn and rotate the ball of the pendulum before swing it! And there are many more interesting questions! Like what will happen when two trains at high speeds of adjacent railways meet each other? Why do birds fly in a "V" shape? Why corpses will float on water? These are all related to our daily life. If two trains at high speeds of adjacent railways do not slow down when they meet, the windows of the trains, may be broken! Because a high pressure is built in front
For each test, I was required to calculate the height of the pendulum required in order for it to have the same mass, or the quantity of matter affected by the external force of gravity, as my project. To find the height, it required understanding the process of the pendulum hitting my project step by step. As the pendulum is pulled back, it has its maximum potential energy, which is the energy possessed by a body by virtue of its position relative to other objects. When the pendulum is let go, it loses potential energy while gaining kinetic energy, or the energy that a body possesses by virtue of being in motion. At the bottom of the swing, kinetic energy of pendulum is the greatest because the change in potential energy equals the kinetic energy at the bottom of the swing. As the pendulum hits my project, there is an impulse, a force acting briefly on a body and producing a finite change of momentum, between the pendulum and project. As the pendulum hits my project, the project carries the momentum of the pendulum with it. By working in reverse order, the height of the pendulum required was
Theories of Relativity by Barbara Haworth-Attard enlightens the reader that the way in which people observe an individual is not always dependant on their socioeconomic status, it is dependent on the individual who is making the judgement. Some individuals may take advantage of the homeless in sexual way. They believe since they are homeless they would do anything for money. A confined amount of individuals may detect hope or a future of well-being for the homeless. Affectionate individuals may gain the tenderness to stop and actively give guidance to a homeless person because they foresee hope. The vast majority of people obtain a feeling of irritation toward the homeless due to them constantly asking for change. People with limited patience
One of the key questions raised by Rupert Sheldrake in the Seven Experiments That Could Change the World, is are we more than the ghost in the machine? It is perfectly acceptable to Sheldrake that humans are more than their brain, and because of this, and in actual reality “the mind is indeed extended beyond the brain, as most people throughout most of human history have believed.” (Sheldrake, Seven Experiments 104)
The Purpose of this lab is to use the impulse and momentum concepts to explain what happens when the eggs are dropped onto various objects.
Since his birth, Albert Einstein has had the most beneficial effects on the events of the world. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1979 and as a boy displayed an unquenchable curiosity for understanding science and all of its mysteries. As Albert Einstein’s life progressed, he found himself working as a patent clerk in Bern. While working as a patent clerk in Bern, Albert Einstein had a plethora amount of time which was devoted to formulating his theories. Also during this time, Albert Einstein received his Doctorate degree and started working on one of his most influential papers, which was the Special Theory of Relativity. After Einstein completed his Special Theory of Relativity, he moved onto creating the General Theory of Relativity which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. With the creation of both the General Theory of Relativity and the Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein was able to create his Theory of Relativity which comprises of both theories. Other scientific discoveries that Einstein made are the existence of the photon, the theory of Brownian motion, the concept of Mass-energy equivalence, the photoelectric effect, the first quantum theory of specific heats, the Einstein-Brilloui-Keller method for finding the quantum mechanical version of a classical system , Bose-Einstein statistics and Bose-Einstein condensates, the EPR paradox, and although his efforts were unsuccessful, in his last thirty years of life Einstein explored various classical unified field theories that could account for both electromagnetism and gravitation and possibly quantum mechanics.
We don’t have to explain about how do the objects works because we know the purpose of the objects are designed like that. For example, we know the purpose of the hair dryer which it is use to blow dry our hair. Therefore you do not need any physics principle to explain to use it, in fact you just have to press the start button to use the hair dryer.
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd is an amazing book that follows the lives of some very amazing women. Kidd shows what it meant to be a slave and what it meant to be a woman. This book mostly deals with slavery and how it affects people who are slaves, how they suffered but also how it affected people who were against slavery and trying to change the world. Kidd also covers sexism and what it means to be a woman with ambition, drive and wanting to be a woman who abolishes slavery. This book mainly follows the life of Sarah Grimke, a girl with drive, ambitions, and ideas; but who is also the daughter of a slave owning judge who lives in Charleston.
The Wright brothers were engineers and pioneers of aviation. Wilbur Wright was born April 16, 1867, near Millville, Indiana. He was the middle child in a family of five children. His father, Milton Wright, was a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. His mother was Susan Catherine Koerner. When Wilbur was a child, his playmate was his younger brother, Orville Wright, born in 1871. The Wright brothers achieved the first powered, and controlled airplane flight. They surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical plane.
reality normally consists of two parts: a) A set of local laws that are obeyed
This book has taught me a lot about Alexander Hamilton. Most of it was a surprise to me. This book includes where he was born, how he moved to the United States, what he had done to contribute to the country, and his wife and kids. This book has plenty of insight on one of our greatest leaders.
The inventors of the airplane were none other than Orville and Wilbur Wright. The two brothers were the pioneers of the airplane. Both born during the late 1800s, the older of the two, Wilbur, was born on April 16, 1867. Wilbur was born in the town of Millville, Indiana. The younger sibling, Orville, was born August 19, 1871. Orville, unlike his older brothers, was born in Dayton, Ohio.
It teaches us to expect the unexpected. A famous example of chaos theory, referred to as the "butterfly effect, “postulates that the beat of a butterfly's wing could trigger a breath of breeze
2.) Inelastic collision: A strobe photo will be used that shows a glider smashing into another glider which is initially at rest. When they collide the two gliders will stick together and will move.
Our machine showed physics in many ways. It used Newtons laws, collisions, and more aspects of physics. Our project showed ten different aspects in detail. This is our machine.
The first three chapters of A Brief History of Time cover a variety of topics. In chapter one, Stephen Hawking tries to provide a single theory to describe the entire universe. Chapter two describes some of the ideas that scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and physicians of the past had about gravity and theories of motion. The third chapter in the book talks about the work of many scientists of the past concerning whether the universe is expanding or not. In each chapter, Stephen Hawking describes several different things to solve the huge idea of the entire universe.