Sam Harrelson

**IMPORTANT**
The Elegant Universe segment presentation that is due Friday is now worth 20 points EXTRA CREDIT.
The reason is that our computers in the Computer Lab are not capable of viewing the video, so it would not be fair to make this assignment mandatory.
However, if you have done the notes and prepared you can still [...]

Einstein, Atoms and Strings
November 29, 2005
Physical Science
Mr. Harrelson
harrelson@skyhawkscience.com
“I soon learned to scent out what was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind.”
1905 – Brownian Motion
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/brownian.htm
I. Background of Kinetic Thought on Atoms
a. Newton’s Motion
b. Problems
II. Robert Brown
a. Observations
b. Brownian Motion
III. Einstein
a. [...]

Lausanne, Switzerland — An international group of researchers from the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the University of Texas at Austin and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany have demonstrated that Brownian motion of a single particle behaves differently than Einstein postulated one century ago.

Their results, to be published online October 11 [...]

Monday 11/28: Finish Dalton Notes, Start “Einstein, Atoms and Strings.”
Tuesday 11/29: String Theory and the Greeks.
Wednesday 11/30: String Theory continued.
Thursday 12/01: Presentations of Weekly HW (Oral presentation from segment of “Elegant Universe”).
Friday 12/02: Continued Presentations of Weekly HW (Oral presentation from segment of “Elegant Universe”).
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China Aims to Put Man on Moon by 2020 (AP): “AP - Budget permitting, China wants to be able to put a man on the moon and build a space station in 15 years, a space program official said Sunday.”

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We are going to be covering recent thoughts on the atom next week. Your homework for the coming week is to do the following…
1. Visit this site - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
2. Watch a few segments of this awesome program and pick the one that seems the most interesting to you.
3. Take notes on [...]

Here is the notesheet we covered (partly) in class on Tuesday. We’ll finish this when we get back on next Monday…
“And the atoms move continuously for all time, some of them falling straight down, others swerving, and others recoiling from their collisions… and these motions have no beginning, since the atoms and the void [...]

In the works are some very very large telescope observatories that will be able to see objects that even the Hubble can’t see.
The interesting thing is that these will be built on the Earth’s surface rather than out in space.
Check out this interesting article for details…
http://wired.com/news/space/0,2697,69578,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

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Happy Thanksgiving!!
I hope you have a great break and get lots of food, rest, relaxation and family time.
See you next Monday!
Mr. H

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Wikipedia has an awesome article on “atomism” and how the ideathat everything is made of atoms has been interpreted by people of Islam, Buddhism and Judaism/Christianity throughout history…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism
Check it out because I think it’s a really interesting extension of what we studied last week!
See you tomorrow-
Mr. H

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