Essays Tagged: "physicists"

Werner Heisenberg

nt at the Maximilian Gymnasium. Heisenberg had the opportunity to work with many of the top physicists in the world including Niels Bohr and Max Born. Like many of the top physicists of the ti ... on as seen in spectra. However, what Bohr wrote on paper about the electron activity and what other physicists were observing were two different things. Bohr had developed his quantum theory of the at ...

(6 pages) 89 0 4.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Color perception principles

demonstrated that white light was made up of coloured light. Soon after the publication of Optics, physicists were able to show that visible light resulted from electromagnetic waves of a cetrain fre ...

(8 pages) 213 0 2.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Nuclear activities in todays world.

ar warfare.Nuclear warfare was developed mainlydurring the years of world war 2.Many sicentists and physicists acrostthe globe were experimenting withspliting atoms and the sort. When theydiscoverd th ...

(2 pages) 82 1 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Distribution of Virtual Marketing

Since the introduction of the World Wide Web in 1990 it has grown from a means of communicating for physicists to having more than forty million users. This tremendous growth and interest in the Inter ...

(2 pages) 175 0 2.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

The Truth About Physics and Religion

related in any ways. Many people, who follow a particular religion, feeloffended by the claims that physicists have made, while physicists believe thatreligion has no basis in reality. I will show, ho ... also prove that the misunderstanding lies in the parables ofreligion and in the statements made by physicists. Furthermore, I will show thatonly physicists can really know the truth of physics, and o ...

(5 pages) 97 2 3.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

The Chaos Theory

Where Chaos begins, classical science ends. Ever since physicists have inquired into the laws of nature, the have not begun to explore irregular side of na ... 970's some American and European scientists began to investigate the randomness of nature.They were physicists, biologists, chemists and mathematicians but they were all seeking one thing: connections ... uilibrium, near equilibrium, the edge of chaos, and chaos). 'The concept of entropy is actually the physicists application of the concept of evolution to physical systems. The greater the entropy of a ...

(9 pages) 158 0 4.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Quarks

um state(1985 Quarks).Quarks always occur in combination with other quarks, they never occur alone. Physicists have attempted to knock a single quark free from a group using a particle accelerator, bu ...

(2 pages) 36 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Scientfic Advancements due to Relativity

studies on the rules of classical physics. Only a few humans remained as revolutionary thinkers and physicists within the community of that time period. Albert Einstein fell into the rare revolutionar ... al physics at a whole new perspective. At the same time of the discovery of relativity, modernistic physicists were developing a new theory called quantum theory. This new-sprung theory is 'based on u ...

(14 pages) 99 0 3.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Blaise Pascal a physics pioneer of his age.

se Pascal was born in central France on June 19, 1623. He was one of thegreatest mathematicians and physicists of the 17th century. He had two sisters of the nameGilberte and Etienne who he was very c ...

(3 pages) 44 0 1.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Copenhagen - Heisenberg's dilemma: Friendship vs Patriotism.

this mysterious encounter. Did Heisenberg make the trip in hope of recruiting Bohr for his team of physicists? Did Heisenberg simply want to boast to his old teacher about how important he was in the ... rly missed each other... Niels Bohr was the father of atomic physics, the most famous of all atomic physicists. Modern physics began when Bohr realized that the quantum theory applied to matter as wel ...

(7 pages) 42 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Atomic Bomb.

Atomic Bomb a Political WeaponThe atomic bomb was first created in the early twentieth century. Physicists in theUnited States and Europe had discovered that the fission of uranium could be used t ...

(2 pages) 134 5 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Describes the who, when, what and how it was developed of the big bang theory.

Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Edwin Hubble, Monsieur L'abbe George Gamow, and a team of Princeton physicists led by Robert Dicke helped conceive and improve the Big Bang theory.Originally conceived ... the radiation that got stretched became very cold, and very detectable.In 1964 a team of Princeton physicists led by Robert Dicke built a radio telescope and came up with results that proved Gamow's ...

(2 pages) 115 4 3.9 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

This essay is a biography along with the acheivements of Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford"The father of nuclear energy," Ernest Rutherford was one of the greatest physicists of all time. He was the primary founder of nuclear physics. His list of accomplishments a ... ated Baron Rutherford of Nelson. He passed away in 1937 as one of the most notorious and celebrated physicists of all time.

(3 pages) 28 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

A Glance at the Internet

ect by physics researchers in Switzerland to dictribute research results over the Internet to other physicists. Today, the Internet is used of the general public.The two elements, part of the technolo ...

(3 pages) 58 0 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Atomic Bomb: Fission vs. Fusion

War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Urged by Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wingner, and Edward Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German ... 83,000. 39,000 were killed, over 25,000 were injured. That blast was less than 10 kilotons as well. Physicists who have studied the atomic explosions conclude that the bombs utilized "only 0.1% of the ...

(7 pages) 65 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

"The Physicists"

I knew what was going to be in it. The advertising was well done because I saw information on "The Physicists" posted on the internet and around the university campus.b.Was I willing?I was ve ... ned with atomic bombings and the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is the reason why Durrenmatt wrote The Physicists: to bring about his concern of scientific responsibility. This relates to the audience t ...

(12 pages) 38 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Thermodynamics Paper

results had been determined only experimentally. Some results posed great theoretical challenges to physicists, who offered many unsuccessful attempts at explaining the origins of the formulas.With th ...

(2 pages) 58 0 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

How is Physics taken as?

During the past fifteen years, a steadily increasing number of physicists have been contributing to the growth of a new field for scholarly inquiry: the learning a ...

(2 pages) 37 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

How we teach and how students learn- A mismatch

and how students learn - A mismatch?During the past fifteen years, a steadily increasing number of physicists have been contributing to the growth of a new field for scholarly inquiry: the learning a ... sed and recognized, the instructor must insist that students confront and resolve the issue. Unlike physicists, students may be willing to tolerate inconsistency.A single encounter is rarely sufficien ...

(13 pages) 143 1 4.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

India

d abstract art -- "it encourages creativity," explains a manager -- lead through laboratories where physicists, chemists, metallurgists, and computer engineers huddle over gurgling beakers, electron m ...

(14 pages) 332 0 4.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays