February 18, 2015 Physical Science
AERODYNAMICS Boys and girls, do you know that we are all surrounded? Well we are! We are surrounded all the time we are living on earth – by air pressure. All of us, suffers every day by plowing through this…
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February 18, 2015 Physical Science
Flash point is the lowest temperature at which a flammable liquid evolves sufficient vapor to form an ignitable mixture of those vapors in air. Well, that’s about it. Short article. So, what’s it to you? Consider an example you already…
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February 18, 2015 Physical Science
The greatest science teacher to grace the halls of Heritage High School, and one of the greatest influences on my scientific knowledge, once explained this to his class when studying the universe. It went something like this: Gravity can be…
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February 18, 2015 Physical Science
The development of the V2 rocket carried with it the genesis of intercontinental ballistic missiles and space flight, yet it all began as an attempt to evade the limits imposed on Germany’s heavy artillery after World War One. In the…
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February 18, 2015 Physical Science
We have spent a great deal of money in the past exploring Mars. A lot more money is planned to be spent in the future. Why? Mars is not much use to anybody except some groups of scientists. Its future…
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February 18, 2015 Physical Science
Theoretically lots of things are possible and time travel is one of those. For my part, I only know about the theory behind travelling forward in time, which, by the way, a misleading statement. The theory of time travel is…
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February 18, 2015 Physical Science
Forget your high school chemistry textbooks. Learning the atoms and molecules isn’t going to help you get that coffee stain off your shirt or pants. In our daily routine life, Chemistry may not seem a big deal to many of…
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February 18, 2015 Physical Science
The discovery and use of chloroform revolutionised surgery in the first half of the nineteenth century. As an alternative form of anaesthetic to ether, the medical fraternity debated the comparative differences between these two agents for most of the 1800’s….
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February 18, 2015 Physical Science
Venus is the second closest planet to the sun in the solar system. The order of the planets starting from the closest to the farthest is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The only object in…
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February 18, 2015 Physical Science
The subject is vast, the book is thin, and author Stephen Hawking is the only household name scientist since Albert Einstein. That is the formula for a bestseller regardless of the the content. A Brief History of Time: From the…
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