...Professor PHYS 2010 October 21, 2014 Physics in Our Daily Activities Physics is a very important science that can almost be found anywhere in our lives. Many people find this statement hard to believe because they are not able to see the basic aspects of physics all around them. I personally think that unless the person is a physicist or at least someone who had some physics classes, chances are this person or someone is not going to understand how much physics affects our daily life. The significant effect of physics on us today can be easily seen when looking at our reliance on modern technology. Many of the technologies that are changing the world around us are based on physics principles. Physics is more than a subject we study in class, it is also a powerful tool that can help us to gain a better understanding of the everyday world. Physics can be seen in a lot of simple games that we play all the time. One of my favorite games that I almost play on a daily basis is pool. The physics associated with pool is mainly about the collisions between the pool balls. When two pool balls hit each other or collide the collision between them is known to be an elastic collision. According to Billiards in the Classroom, "elastic collisions are collisions in which both momentum and kinetic energy are conserved. The total system kinetic energy before the collision equals the total system kinetic energy after the collision." Therefore, we can assume that the collisions that happens...
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...Use of Physics in Everyday Life Use of Physics in Everyday Life Introduction In today’s world, people are surrounded by science and technology, which continue to be more powerful by each passing day. One of these sciences is physics. Physics is science that concerns nature and the properties of matter. It includes mechanics, light, energy, magnetism, structure of atoms sounds and heat among others. The following paper is an essay concerning the use of physics in everyday activities. Skating, using cameras, warming homes using a woodstove, playing with balls that freely fall when suspended and using clothes during cold seasons are some of the examples of areas where physics is used in everyday activities. Skating Skating is one of my daily activities where physics is applied. Skating is a type of movement that is made possible through the laws of motion found in physics. Skating can help explain the term movement, what makes skaters move and what keeps skaters moving while in motion. Also, it helps explain what it takes to stop moving or turn the process of moving in another direction. Skating can also reveal the concept of acceleration and deceleration, as well as the concept of speed. While putting a skate, nothing will happen to such a person unless an external force acts on him or her. The concept of inertia states that a body in motion will always tend to move while a body at rest will always tend to rest unless an external force acts on it (Laws, Sugano, and Swope...
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...Project 1 Write an essay of 1500 words, giving credible references on the use of physics in your daily activities. You need to mention 5 or more activities where physics is used. Remember to follow the APA style and give references. Physics is used in so many ways that most people do not even realize that they are using it. Even a stay at home mom uses physics more than one would think. Daily activities that many people do include physics without thinking about it, such as driving a car, using a headrest in a car, walking and running, flushing the toilet, and washing and drying clothes. Driving a car has many different aspects of physics involved, but today only acceleration, speed, and velocity will be discussed. People talk in terms of physics everyday without even knowing that is what they are discussing. For example, “speed” limit, how quickly a car can “accelerate,” and when they add a direction, they are actually talking about the velocity of a vehicle because velocity has a magnitude and direction, not just magnitude. According to Barry Parker in Issac Newton School of Driving, “you are accelerating and decelerating most of the time when you take a trip through the busy streets of a city, either by stepping on the gas, braking, or turning the steering wheel.” Basically, if someone gets in the driver seat of a car and drives, that person is changing the acceleration, speed, and velocity of the car that is being driven. A speed is just the scalar, magnitude with no...
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...Understanding and Application of Physics in a Restaurant Dillon Perthel Columbia State Community College Authors Note The understanding of physics and the application with in the restaurant environment is key to success. This paper explains the concepts of: center of gravity, friction, thermodynamics, pressure, and potential and kinetic energy. Understanding and Application of Physics in a Restaurant The acknowledgement of physics within day to day tasks will not only allow a better understanding of how a task is completed, but how to most effectively preform said task. Every move we make is derived from some sort of physics equation. The entire physical existence of matter requires acknowledgement of physics. Personally, the understanding of daily physics has improved all sorts of aspects of life. The greatest area to reflect an understanding of specific conceptual ideas would be within a professional, occupational setting. The food industry is always and will always have high demand for individuals who can apply said physical concepts within the work force. In other words, in order to be a proficient employee as well as maintain a job, one must have a true understanding of physics. Efficiency is necessary to be an effective restaurant employee. Maintaining a low center of gravity is the foundation of almost all physical motion. Bussing tables, carrying dishes, as well as the delivering of guest’s food all exhibit a low center of...
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...theories on astronomy a step further and formulated an accurate comprehensive model of the workings of the universe based on the law of universal gravitation. Newton explained his theories in the 1687 revolutionary work called simply the Principia. This work also went a long way toward developing calculus as well. Albert Einstein, most famously known as a physicist, was a contributor to the scientific world with his many known researches and humanitarian work. As a Nobel Prize Winner in 1921, his chronicled and more important works include Special Theory of Relativity (1905), Relativity (English Translation, 1920 and 1950), General Theory of Relativity (1916), Investigations on Theory of Brownian Movement (1926), and The Evolution of Physics (1938). Isaac Newton’s discoveries paved the way for the creation of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, which eventually lead the way for how science currently views time, space, energy, and gravity. Classical relativity; refined by Sir Isaac Newton, involves a simple transformation between a moving object and an observer in another inertial frame of reference. The application of Newton's mechanics to continuously distributed masses led necessarily to the discovery and application of partial differential equations, which in turn supplied the language in which alone the laws of the theory of fields could be expressed. In this formal connection also Newton's conception of the differential law forms the first decisive step to the subsequent...
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...population successfully. A well-paid convenient job is the lifeblood of our daily dreams about the future, and the "what is your favorite job?" is a familiar question for everybody. Getting a job different from our parents, is fascinating in different ways since we start choosing a more strange path to succeed in our lives. In spite of the above-mentioned advantage, I believe that choosing a job similar to our parents' is more convenient. As a matter of fact, we can reach our goals faster. We can apply our parents experience, and we can use their facilities and assistant. To begin with, with a cursory consideration, we can accept that we can reach our goals more quickly by getting a job similar to our father's or mother's. We have raised under our parents' observation and teaching. Therefore, genetically and environmentally, we have similar characteristic to them and our talents have been molded in certain ways. In other words, our accepted values and priorities resemble them, and we are more successful in their jobs consequently. It is worth noting that some studies show a rising trend in the success of children choosing similar jobs as their parents. In addition, by choosing their jobs or jobs similar to them, we can use their expertise exceedingly and respond to our questions in the best way. When our parents provide us with their knowledge and we absorb this information during daily life, we gradually find the enthusiasm to follow our primitive role models and take...
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...The school taught that virtue is the highest good and is based on the knowledge that the wise live in harmony with the divine reason that governs nature, and are indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain. The doctrine of Stoicism was known to have not remained constant over time. The Stoic doctrine is made up of three parts that include logic, ethics, and physics. Stoicism is essentially a system of ethics that is guided by logic as theory of method, and rests upon physics as a foundation. Mortality for them is stern and involves a life in accordance with nature and controlled...
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...Title: To investigate the trajectory of a small ball as it rolls off a surface which is inclined to the horizontal. Objectives: To investigate the trajectory of a two dimensional motion. Apparatus and materials: Ramp, wooden block, pendulum bob, plumb line, steel ball, wooden board, carbon paper, meter ruler, plasticine. Setup: 1. A ramp was set up at the edge of a bench. 2. A plum-line is suspended from the edge of the bench. 3. A wooden board is mounted horizontally using two clamps so that the board is situated about the bottom of the ramp. 4. A sheet of blank paper is placed on top of the board. 5. A piece of carbon paper is placed on the top of the blank paper. The ink-side of the carbon paper is facing down. 6. When a ball was released from the top of the ramp, the ball travelled through a trajectory. Theory: Let: g= 9.80ms-2 u= speed of the ball as it leaves the ramp k= constant y= vertical distance (between the bottom of the ramp and the top of the board) x= horizontal distance (between the plum-line and mark on the paper) The equation which relates x and y is yx=g1+k2x2u2+k Procedure : 1. The ball was positioned at the top of the ramp. The ball was released so that it rolls down the...
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...10 years, discussing the challenges faced in developing it. Introduction Many events, phenomenon and concepts such as existence of alien and soul, channeling and telepathy, which are unexplainable, are considered to be supernatural origin. For that origin, parapsychology, which is a scientific study of paranormal behaviors and experiences, may provide the answer for us. Apart from that, new age movement, which is important for our future and started from the 1960s, is a spiritual development and relative to paranormality. Furthermore, the main concepts of new age are “We are all in one” and “our consciousnesses create our own realities”. In fact, parapsychology, which can be proven by quantum physics, makes the concept of new age more complete and persuadable. Thus, quantum physics and parapsychology, which have a strong relationship between them, make a great impact on new age. Nevertheless, the challenges are many people may think that paranormal phenomenon and these concepts are frauds and ridiculous. We will recognize these are possible and really amazing when we investigate more. This essay investigates what is parapsychology, evaluates the impact on new age and discusses the challenges faced. Background There are two main directions in parapsychology, which are Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. In the past, there were many famous scientists and inventors who are enthusiastic for paranormality such as William Crookes, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein and...
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...Religion on Earth looked very primitive. Their minds haven't evolved to the point where they can comprehend accepting things that they don't understand. They are still in the early stages of religion where they can only understand spirituality by confining it to their own human form and emotions. For example, their "God" is thought of as a guy with a robe. And they often talk about what he "feels". They don't understand that spirituality is much bigger than that. And that it includes things that the "religious" often deny, like scientific principals, physics and quantum mechanics that are far more elegant than what they have developed to comprehend. They must put them into a human context because they still think they need to completely understand something before it actually exists. They also believe that nothing, including universal and perfect laws of physics is more powerful than the characters they fabricate. They don't realize yet that they are talking about the same things that we already know. I expect that within the next five hundred to a thousand years, they will be able to break free of this limitation and see the higher power in the universe itself - that there are many things that, when we do figure them out, show themselves as complex, yet perfect, and that these forces in the universe are what hold the power of everything that happens here. These forces act as we know, with what appears to be massive intelligence, but not intelligence that even our minds have...
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...books about the human body, stars, planets and phenomena I could have never imagined. I would go through an encyclopedia in my free time and think about how the protons, electrons, neutrons made up an atom and how the atom contributes to everyday life. As I grew older, my fascination never waned, and I read every single book I could possibly find about science. I had always loved physics: it captured my attention like few things could. I always knew within myself that biology and chemistry were my passion and that only these would satisfy my insatiable curiosity for science. Almost five years ago, when I came to America with my family, I was not proficient in English. I strongly believe that I learned English so quickly because I continuously read books. In high school I have challenged myself by taking high-level classes, even though I lack strong English abilities. My freshman year, I took Pre-Ap biology like any other freshman is expected to,. My curiosity for the human body grew as a result of this class, and I decided to challenge myself by taking AP biology my sophomore year, along with chemistry. During the summer of 2012, I was a member of All Girls Dallas ISD physics camp, which taught me phenomenal things about physics and how everyday things work. I was new in high school, so I didn’t get any guidance about what classes were good for me. I slowly learned. When I was placed in Algebra I during my freshman year, I knew I could challenge myself more than I had before...
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...Daisy Dai Grade11 Class1 Physics Whether the Gravity is the product of the Electromagnetism I. Introduction Gravity and electromagnetism are both the fundamental forces in the world; they are unique in physics and thought of some connections between them by some scientists. However, according to the studies, gravity isn’t a product of electromagnetism because they are juxtaposed to each other in physics’ identifications. From the formula (G=mg) created by Newton, the gravity is related only to mass. And this leads concept of gravitational fields. But the electromagnetic force are definitely different from that one. It is related not to mass but to the electric charge（F=qvB), and this leads to the concept of electric field. Since the Earth exists the gravitational field, the electric field and the magnetic field which don’t have any affiliation with each other by observing the formulas, they will not have connection with each other. But for electric and magnetic force, the sources of magnetic fields are electrical currents, caused by moving electric charges or small dipoles associated with molecular and atomic structure. So, there is electromagnetic force that electromagnetism exists in the universe. However, these forces actually have connections with each other instead of non-connection relationship. In fact, gravity is not the subordinate relationship with electromagnetism but the similar ones. All magnetic...
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...ELECTIVES: America’s Colonial Foundations (0.5) America’s Colonial Foundations provides an introduction to the major topics of the establishment of British North America, their political economic and social structures, religious and intellectual characteristics and the transition from distant citizens of Great Britain to a new American identity. It will examine changing relationships with Native Americans, development of racial slavery as a labor source, and European cultural influences on the various colonial regions. American Literature (0.5) Throughout the course of American Literature, students will be able to encounter and experience the full span of America’s rich literary history. The course begins with the literary contributions of America’s first settlers, and explores how their faith and difficult circumstances shaped their lives and the literature through which they captured these early moments of America. The course then moves through the Age of Faith, during which the core of American Literature was shaped by a strong and foundational faith, and then into the Age of Reason, during which the world of science and modern thinking started to shape the literature of the times. The study of literature then moves into the Romantic period, and then the Realist period, both of which shaped American Literature at its core and brought about significant changes to the style, structure, and purpose of literature. The introduction of Modern literature includes the literature of...
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...Economics Economics has become quite a popular course at school in recent years. In fact, economics plays an important role in various fields of our life. Most of us may feel that we are familiar with economics, but we seldom think about what economics is and how we can apply it into our future life. These two questions are going to be covered in this essay. 1. What is economics? The definition of economicsWhy should your students consider studying economics at degree level? The Economics Network's website (whystudyeconomics.ac.uk) attempts to answer this question, guiding A-level students through the difficult decision of choosing a degree course and encouraging students who might otherwise not consider a degree in economics that it is a worthwhile subject. It also provides information to students and parents. This year the website has been relaunched with a brand new look. But why should students consider economics and what can they expect? [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] As a new science, economics has been interpreted by professional economists in different ways. However, the definition of economics in Alfred Marshall’s textbook is as widely accepted today as it was in 1890, when the first edition of Principles of Economics was published. As Marshall (1961, p. 1) indicated, ‘Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites...
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...Peer Tutoring: Its Effect on the Achievement and Attitude in Physics Of high School Senior Students of Naval Institute of Technology ---------------------------------- A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School Leyte Normal University Tacloban City ---------------------------------- In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Teaching (Science) ---------------------------------- by Minerva E. Sañosa February 1996 ABSTRACT This study attempted to assess the effects of peer tutoring on the achievement in and attitude towards Physics of high school senior students of Naval Institute of Technology, SY 1995-1996. Five high school senior students with the highest grade point average from first year to third year high school in English, Mathematics, and Science were used as peer tutors. The subjects of the study were fifty high school senior students randomly selected and assigned into two groups, the peer tutored or experimental group and non-peer tutored or the control group. The two groups answered the achievement test in electromagnetic energy and a scale to measure attitude towards Physics before and after the conduct of study. The result indicated that students in both groups increased their level of achievement during the study. Morever, with the use of two-tailed test, it was revealed that the level of achievement of students in...
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