Amalie Emmy Noether was born on March 23, 1882 in Erlangen, Germany. In her late life, she had underwent surgery to remove a pelvic tumor, but died from a post-operative infection on April 14, 1935. Noether was 83 years old when she died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Max Noether and Ida Amalie Kaufmann were the parents of Emmy, along with her three brothers: Friedrich (Fritz), Gustav Robert, and Alfred Noether. During her childhood, Noether did not stand out academically and, being female, was not
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Conservation of Mass states that matter can be changed from one form into another, mixtures can be separated or made, and pure substances can be decomposed, but the total amount of mass remains constant, so it is a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system. The formulation of this law near the end of the eighteenth century marked the beginning of modern chemistry. By that time many elements had been isolated and identified, most notably
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2009 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N Physics Total marks – 100 General Instructions • Reading time – 5 minutes • Working time – 3 hours • Write using black or blue pen • Draw diagrams using pencil • Board-approved calculators may be used • A data sheet, formulae sheets and Periodic Table are provided at the back of this paper • Write your Centre Number and Student Number at the top of pages 9, 11, 13, 15, 19 and 21 Section I Pages 2–22 75 marks
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Matter is generally considered to be anything that has mass and volume. The volume is determined by the space in three dimensions that it occupies. The mass is determined by its rest mass (or invariant mass), which is measured by the acceleration a body has when a force is applied. The greater the mass, the slower the acceleration for the same force. Matter is thus a general term for the substance of which all observable physical objects consist. Typically, matter includes atoms and other particles that
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Chow Excerpt More information 1 Vector and tensor analysis Vectors and scalars Vector methods have become standard tools for the physicists. In this chapter we discuss the properties of the vectors and vector ®elds that occur in classical physics. We will do so in a way, and in a notation, that leads to the formation of abstract linear vector spaces in Chapter 5. A physical quantity that is completely speci®ed, in appropriate units, by a single number (called its magnitude) such as volume
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Physics of Natural Disasters: Tsunamis Abstract This paper will be focusing on the physics generated from natural disasters. The specific natural disaster that will be focused on in this essay is tsunami waves. The paper will explain various ways that tsunamis may be generated which can even happen from the results of another natural disaster, the damage that tsunamis can cause as it hits land, and of course the physics in the tsunami’s waves relative to the damages. Most of the information
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Vale, a journalist, wants to uncover the identity of the mysterious hero. Then a psychotic clown criminal takes over the city. Batman is there to defeat this evil menace. Summary of Physics: In this scene of the movie, Batman’s heroic actions with Vicky Vale makes the audience question the accuracy of physics in this movie. Batman and Vale fall from Gotham City’s high and gloomy bell tower. As they fall from high sky above, Batman accurately aims at a gargoyle on the tower with his hook shooter
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Physics Lab Report Sample Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 OBJECTIVE …………...……...………...............................3 | | CHAPTER 2 THEORY …………………………………………………...4 | | CHAPTER 3 PROCEDURE ……………………………………………...7 | | CHAPTER 4 4.1 DATA TABLE ………………………………………...9 | | 4.2 GRAPH ………………………………………………..10 | | CHAPTER 5 ANALYSIS …………………………………………………15 | | CHAPTER 6 ANSWERS AND COMMENTS …………………………..19 | | CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION……………………….…………………….20 | |
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Roller coasters have come a long way from ¨monumental ice slides¨ in the 16th and 17th century to an actual steel cart with wheels today.As we go on we will discuss the history of roller coasters,the physics behind them,and the authors experience in the making of its own roller coaster. The history of a roller coaster goes back a long time to the 16th and 17th century.The first roller coaster started as a ice slides which eventually developed in to rolling carts.Then as time went two of the first
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Physics in Our Life By: Nathan Bates We use physics all the time and every day in many different ways. Everything anyone does involves physics in some way, shape, and/or form. In this report I will tell and explain how some of these are done and the physics behind them. Here are the topics I choose to show the physics in them. The physics of speech, the physics in damns and power producing, the physics of eat and chewing, the physics of children’s swing/swings in general, and the one that affects
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