Essays on Newtons

The Mars Climate Orbiter: A Multimillion Dollar Mistake

The Story Grossman (1999) addresses the incident of NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter in her article named “Metric Math Mistake Muffed Mars Meteorology Mission”. She explains how a simple unit conversion mistake caused the Orbiter to burn up in the Martian atmosphere. The vessel costed NASA a whopping $125 million when it vanished into the Martian atmosphere. The problem, later identified by a NASA review board, owed to a software glitch. The software was used to calculate the thrust in “pounds of force” while the other software took the input in “newtons”. This happened due to the fact that ...

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Newton's Second Law of motion asserts that the acceleration of an object exhibits a direct proportional relationship with the subsequent force acting on it. It explores the relationship that exists between force, mass and acceleration as exhibited by an object. This experiment examines Newton's Second Law of motion by enabling a dwindling weight to speed up a glider of recognised quantity along a track. A thread that links the dwindling mass to the glider is passed above a smart pulley (Knight, 2004). It is imperative to note that the smart pulley exhibits insignificant inertia, low friction and its revolution ...

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Introduction

Physics remains a very useful field in the modern technological lives. Without physics, there would be very little understanding of how things work. Physics creates an understanding of the functioning mechanisms of the world and the different elements through such topics as kinetic energy, laws of motion, laws of gravity, mass, etc. Almost every aspect of people’s lives revolves around physics. Consequently, without physics, there wouldn’t be development such as lighting from electricity sources, motor-vehicles, electricity and so on. Physics is, therefore, an arm of science that involves the study of matter characteristics, energy and their ...

Experiment 11

Introduction: When a body moves in a circle and its angular speed changes, the body experiences an angular acceleration. Torque gives the body an angular acceleration. Rotating a body necessitates to overcome rotational inertia of the body, known as its moment of inertia. In highly symmetrical cases it is feasible to develop formulas for calculating moment of inertia of a body. In this part of the experiment, a constant torque was applied to a circular disk that could rotate on a low friction bearing. The disk span up to a higher angular speed. Object of this experiment was to calculate the disk's angular acceleration and relate it ...

Newton`s contribution to physics

Newton studied all the basic questions of physics and mathematics relevant to his time. Mighty apparatus of Newton`s mechanics, its versatility and ability to explain and describe a wide range of natural phenomena, especially astronomical, had a tremendous impact on many areas of physics and chemistry. “His study and understanding of light, the invention of the reflecting telescope (1668), and his revelation in his Principia of the mathematical ordering of the universe are all represented on his monument in Westminster Abbey” (“Sir Isaac Newton”). Newton's influence on the further development of physics is enormous. Nowadays all scholars think the ...

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Question 9) What was alchemy? What later subjects did it embrace? What was the philosopher's stone? Compare and contrast the alchemical traditions associated with Jabir ibn Hayyan and al-Razi. Islamic scholars wanted to utilize their knowledge and to apply philosophy to the material world. "Alchemy was in some ways the precursor to the modern material sciences of pharmacology (iatrochemistry), chemistry, mining and smelting, and parts of physics and engineering, as well as aspects of biology such as the study of fermentation, decay and reproduction. At a basic level, alchemists were trying to identify, classify, and systematically produce useful or ...

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Science instruction is the area concerned with sharing technology content and procedure with persons not traditionally considered a part of-the scientific community. The area of science instruction contains some social science, technology articles, and some teaching pedagogy. The requirements for technology education supply expectations for the improvement of comprehension for pupils through-the whole class of their K-12 education. The conventional subjects contained in the criteria are life, physical, world, and space sciences. Throughout the previous couple of years, many significant modifications have been happened in the area of training, understanding and evaluation as concurrent with driving advancements in the ...