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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

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LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). PROFESSOR RAJA GUHATHAKURTA Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California Santa Cruz, USA. . Amanda talks about her astronomy work to a class of school students over Skype. SUPERNOVA – the explosion of a star.

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Leading Through Innovation: Celebrating Black STEM Leaders

STEM Education Guide

Now that we know why February is Black History Month let’s check out this list of impressive examples of what Black genius can accomplish in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It’s no surprise that Mary Jackson was so dedicated to youth and public service.

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Bending Space-Time: General Relativity

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Citing his law of inertia, he soon developed a mathematical relationship between any two objects and discovered that the force of attraction is equal to G*M1*M2/R^2, where M1 and M2 are the two objects , R is the distance between the objects’ centers of masses, and G is the universal gravitational constant. 2022, November 27).

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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. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Examining the extremely small

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A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. It was an interest in astronomy that inspired me to study physics and become a spectroscopist. Once a month, different researchers from the institute explain their research to the public in an accessible way that everyone can understand.

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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

the same integral could still be done, but only in terms of elliptic integrals : Mathematical Functions: A Milestone Is Reached. Special functions are in a sense a way of packaging mathematical knowledge : once you know that the solution to your equation is a Lamé function , that immediately tells you lots of mathematical things about it.