Celestial sphere

shadow of the Earth blocking sunlight which illuminates the moon. Angular Diameters is a measurement describing how large a circle appears from a certain point of view. An Annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves to cover the sun, but does not cover it fully. Creating a ring of fire effect! -End that part- Refreshing quote! “If you don’t get an A on the final with all this shit, you’re a dumbass!” `end quote. Random Sky shit: An astronomical unit is around 149,597,871 kilometers. Light distance is 9.4607 × 1012 km, in other words. That’s pretty fucking huge. The Milky Way is the galaxy we live in you stupid shit. It’s around 100k light years big… fuck. The magnitude scale is used to describe how large stars can be. The celestial sphere is the plain in which we see the stars and constellations move. Although the earth rotates from West to East, we see the sky moving from East to West. The idea is that stars are in fixed positions and moving around the pole star, but in reality it is the perspective of an individual based on their location. The Zenith is the point directly above you. The Nadir is the point directly below you. The Horizon is the lowest place you…

He learns quickly and thirsts for more knowledge. In chapter 19 Square is speaking with Sphere and says “I crave, I thirst, for more knowledge” (Abbot 72). Square then speaks of the possibility of a fourth dimension. Even Sphere has not comprehended this concept. It is so far beyond anything that has ever been considered and it really shows just how intelligent Square is. While I am not a mathematician who can grasp broad concepts I can at sometimes be considered intelligent. Sometimes I can…

into her song, Parmenides would have been in total agreement with Maria. The principle of “ex nihilo nihil” is quite important to his argument about the perfection of the world. It is impossible that the world could be created from nothing, since, according to Parmenides, “what is not” cannot exist. From this premise, he argues that since there is nothing that can be called what-is-not the world cannot have any deficiencies, since deficiency would imply the existence of “what-is-not. While…

the chemical reaction, the borax is the ingredient that bonds the two polymers together, and keeps them together during impact. Hypothesis If the ball bounces higher when more cornstarch is added, then the polymer bonds are stronger because the cornstarch is what makes the polymer bonds that give the ball its elasticity. Materials Glue Borax Cornstarch Scale Beaker Plastic Spoon Procedure Measured approximately 3 spoons of glue, add them all to the beaker Measured 4 grams of Borax…

Core 1 Quantitative Assignment 1 Background: When wanting to find the mass of a massive object, the following is needed, Newton’s gravitational law (F = ma = mv2/r). Newton’s gravitational law can be used to calculate the mass which is represented by (M). This can be calculated if the velocity represented by (v), at orbital radius represented by (r), is known for the equation. When these two laws are put together they create the formula M = v2 r / G what G represents is the…

Fig. 11: Residuals in the osculating orbital elements of Nereid for long time interval. The semi-major axis is given in km, eccentricity in radians and the rest of elements are in degree (Saad & Kinoshita 2001). Vashkov’yak and Teslenko (2010) in addition to the effects of the mother planet Neptune, they considered the influence of the attraction of the internal satellite Triton on the evolution of the orbit of the external satellite Nereid. The disturbing function of Triton is…

This paper will discuss the life of the German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler. Who had a great impact in the 17th century scientific revolution, because of his development of the three laws of planetary motion. He is also remembered for the legacy he left that later provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. “Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 poor and sickly in what is now Germany. His father left home when Johannes…

as the defenders of morality created a system in which men and women operated in disparate spheres. This notion of the genders existing in separate spheres is the topic of our final and most current article, “Separated By Their Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World”, written by Mary Beth Norton and published in 2011. Unlike the other articles discussed herein which have focused on New England society, Norton takes a transatlantic perspective by examining how English culture…

Entry 1: Today we discussed the public sphere. In summary, we discussed the emergence of the “mass audience”, the low/high culture binary, and determining where the idea of “the public” comes from. We have a conception of the public sphere from the bourgeois class. The set ideal is that of a private (civil society) and the public (state-mediates crises). This public sphere is formed and operated through the norms of publicity. There are five norms that make up publicity: status as person is…

Heroes, inhabitants of an ontological Limbo Student ID: 2143830 One of the most intriguing questions about heroism regards the delicate coexistence between heroes’ private and public spheres. A hero’s ‘valet de chambre’ (i.e. ‘valet of the chamber’), representing those who have access to his most human sides, may be contemplated as a metaphor of his private image, counterposed to his public one. The purpose of this essay is to emphasize the organic relationship between the presence…