Gravitation

Dark matter. One of the greatest, most mysterious discoveries in the history of science was unearthed by Vera Rubin in 1978. The galactic spearhead of the 50’s, Vera Rubin is a marvelous American woman because of her discoveries in the area of dark matter, galactic rotation curves, and her work in gender equality. Vera Cooper Rubin was born on July 23, 1928 in Philadelphia. Vera’s father, Philip Cooper, was an electrical engineer. Her mother, Rose Applebaum, worked for Bell Telephone Company…

“Big Brother is watching you,”—similar to the government portrayed in the well-known dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell, the Catholic Church had thorough control over every aspect of the lowly commoner. Ever since the alleged issue of The Donation of Constantine in the 8th century giving the papacy power of the western Roman Empire, the local church held power over the commoner from preaching to education to local politics (Vauchez 445). With the ability to manipulate the education that…

exploration is made possible because of the work of Newton. Newton’s discovery of gravity and its laws and published work has enabled humanity to venture deeper into the unknown region of outer space. Newton’s discovery and writings of “universal gravitation” has allowed us to traverse space correctly. Rather than point straight up and shoot, this principle requires objects to gain horizontal speed not only to reach,…

accomplished many things over his lifetime as a scientist. He is best known for his work on motion and gravity. He discovered and wrote Newton’s three laws of motion which are used around the world today as a base of physics. He also developed the law of gravitation that contains certain aspects still used to explain the gravitational…

not the way a layperson tells someone about what they saw. The narrator also talks about the environment around him in a scientific way, saying, “my muscles… played the mischief with me in attempting for the first time to cope with the lesser gravitation and lower air pressure on Mars” (150). When he describes the plant that makes…

Sir Isaac Newton contributed in so many ways towards science and how we understand the world. Other scientists before him had ideas put on the table about motion and so forth, but it was Newton who made the connections. Newton’s young life was a struggle for him and he wasn’t always treated in the best way. But he made the best of his life and made himself into an important figure who changed how we view the world and science. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress” -Frederick Douglas…

Phoebe’s rejection of the present ultimately signifies Holden’s inability to find everlasting closure in inanimate objects, thus proving that he must confront adulthood in order to survive in a society that is constantly changing. In addition to his gravitation towards the red hunting hat, Holden also finds comfort in the Museum of Natural History. While Holden searches for Phoebe in New York, he recounts that he used to frequently visit the museum when he attended elementary school. He recalls…

Isaac Newton started working in the optics field in 1666. Then he taught at Cambridge university. He started refracting light to produce a multicolor spectrum, that you can reverse back into a light with another prism. As an outcome in his analysis, he began to speculate color is the outcome of items connecting with previously colored light. instead of items developing color on their own, that is acknowledged as "Newton's theory of color." he also finished the refracting telescope lens will…

Knighted Newton The chapter titled, Knighted Newton, is about famous mathematician and physicist, Sir Isaac Newton. Newton’s name is recognized by almost everyone today due to his math and scientific studies. In the world of mathematics he is known for creating the calculus. However, there are a few people who would disagree with that. Some people would argue that, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is the man who created calculus and because of that there was a dispute that happened between the two…

key role in popularizing Newton’s ideas, and he offered one of the first accounts of how the famed scientist developed his theories on gravity. In his 1727 “Essay on Epic Poetry,” Voltaire wrote that Newton “had the first thought of his System of Gravitation, upon seeing an apple falling from a tree.” Voltaire wasn’t the original source for the story of the “Eureka!” moment, as has often been claimed, but his account was instrumental in…