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Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language

Stephen Wolfram

Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately compute eclipses. But now—as a tiny part of making “everything in the world” computablecomputation about eclipses is just a built-in feature of the Wolfram Language. The core function is SolarEclipse.

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STEM in Science Classrooms – Difference Between Science and Technology

STEM Education Guide

Although it can merge with other fields such as engineering, technology is generally used to describe computer-related jobs. Computer programmers code the software for the engineers to plan. Children may also be interested to learn that video game developers and designers are also classified as computer scientists.

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The Past, Present and Future of Women in STEM

PCS Edventures

They studied arithmetic, geometry and astronomy, and some nuns even studied herbal medication and wrote books on the natural world (Pak, 2018). Women from wealthy families and of noble backgrounds were often allowed to pursue diverse interests ranging from literature to physics. Amy Hood is another powerful role model. and Eccles, J.

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Leading Through Innovation: Celebrating Black STEM Leaders

STEM Education Guide

Throughout his career, Dr. deGrasse Tyson’s research has focused on cosmology, stellar evolution, galactic astronomy, bulges, and stellar formation. In 1962, Johnson manually confirmed complex orbital equations that had been created and implemented by a worldwide network of computers.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

We’ve worked very hard to make its design as clean and coherent as possible—and to make it a timeless way to elegantly represent computation and everything that can be described through it. Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5 Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5

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

Stephen Wolfram

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. 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. This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1.

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Zero-g and Me

The Blog of Phyz

I am still waiting for that day but I have traveled into the stratosphere aboard NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). I put a lot of effort into helping my students understand free fall during my physics teaching career. I was excited about teaching it when I became a high school physics teacher.

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