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- ...d procedures or mathematical evidence. Alhazen is considered by many to be the father of modern optics. ...n and placed him under house arrest till the Caliphs death in 1040. During the house arrest, Alhazen wrote his famous [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_ ...6 KB (1,016 words) - 13:40, 4 December 2015
- ...hermodynamics and development of statistical mechanics. His findings paved the way for future discoveries in quantum mechanics and theoretical physics. ...e who held a position as president of Harvard and another relative who was the first president of Princeton. ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 22:42, 30 November 2015
- ...850) was a french chemist and physicist. He was best known for his work on the behavior of gases, namely Gay-Lussac's Law. ...hony Gay-Lussac, a royal attorney who was imprisoned from 1793-1794 during the French Revolution. ...4 KB (547 words) - 10:36, 4 December 2015
- ...ch Academy of Sciences in 1803. He was also elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He won Rumford Medal for his research on ==Scientific Contributions== ...5 KB (698 words) - 12:38, 3 December 2015
- ...was also a brilliant mathematician and could accurately give the answer to the square root of 3 to a good amount of decimal place accuracy even though his ===The Life of Archimedes=== ...6 KB (1,053 words) - 11:01, 5 December 2015
- ..., 1879, Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a German scientist who studied the physics behind cathode rays.[http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics ...s an active proponent of Nazi ideology and was an important role model for the "Deutsche Physik" movement ...5 KB (782 words) - 15:19, 4 December 2015
- .... Leonard of the University of St. Andrews and in 1859 became principal of the University of Edinburgh. ...was Juliet McPherson. Together, they had four sons and a daughter. After the death of his first wife, Brewster married again in 1857 to Jane Kirk Purnel ...8 KB (1,219 words) - 22:57, 5 December 2015
- ...general curiosity about the world that led him to discover great things in the future. ...as appointed a professor at Cornell University, but he soon transferred to the California Institute of Technology in 1950 to further his research in quant ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 23:50, 24 November 2016
- ...roaches a pendulum under extreme conditions, as will be analyzed in one of the examples. ...mensional cases: the pendulum, which is approximately harmonic motion, and the swinging spring which is related to but substantially more complex than har ...18 KB (3,048 words) - 13:37, 29 July 2019
- This page describes the International System of Units and lists its units. ==The Main Idea== ...25 KB (4,349 words) - 03:02, 29 November 2025
- ...of torque depends on where the force is applied and the position at which the force acts relative to a location. .... Using the Law of the Lever and geometric reasoning, Archimedes developed the concept of torque. ...13 KB (2,118 words) - 17:56, 3 December 2024
- == The Big Picture == ...ut nature and theory. A simple example can be seen below where Vector 3 is the sum of Vectors 1 and 2. ...18 KB (2,986 words) - 22:26, 30 November 2025
- ...relativity asserts that the speed of light is the ultimate speed limit in the universe, and as such, gravity should not be able to surpass that. Because ...ul theory. As well as this, new predictions have been made through solving the equations in this theory and subsequently observed in reality. ...18 KB (2,939 words) - 13:03, 27 November 2022
- ...which may have some inherent degree of randomness, which notably includes the current paradigm of all quantum mechanical system. ...will, because the atoms that make up our bodies simply continue to move in the paths we would expect based on their initial conditions. ...22 KB (3,612 words) - 14:36, 29 July 2019
- ...rg/wiki/String_theory#:~:text=string%20theory%20potentially%20provides%20a,the%20choice%20of%20its%20details]. * '''The Main Idea''' – Core principles of string theory in simple terms. ...67 KB (10,027 words) - 19:01, 12 April 2025