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Fall STEM Activities

STEM Sport

Educational Benefit: This experiment helps students understand the Earth’s rotation, the changing angle of sunlight during the day, and the basics of astronomy. Thermal Energy Insulation Investigation Description: As temperatures drop in the fall, students can design an experiment to test the insulation properties of various materials.

STEM 98
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics. But in plenty of situations it wasn’t.

Energy 88
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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ??????

Stephen Wolfram

Needless to say, you can do this computationally—though the “calculus” of what’s been defined so far in Unicode is fairly bizarre: &#10005. If we define a month “physically”, it corresponds to a certain fractional number of days: &#10005. Now we can use the path function to make a “spiralling” tour video: College Calculus.

Calculus 114