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How are engineers contributing to a sustainable future?

Futurum

At each stage of transporting this electricity, from wind farm to National Grid to your house to your phone, a small amount of electricity is wasted as it heats up the transistors it travels through. Electrical engineering The transport industry is a significant contributor to carbon dioxide emissions.

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The Traditions of Summer: The Science Behind the Summer Solstice

PCS Edventures

Instead of spinning vertically, the Earth is tilted 23-degrees to its side, which means that the sunlight hitting our planet’s surface is not equal throughout the year — the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth changes throughout the year as the planet orbits the Sun. BrickLAB STEAMventures: Flight & Transportation Collections.

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5 Ways to Prepare for a STEAM-Filled Year

PCS Edventures

Start by creating a flexible layout. It’s equally important to decide where to store materials learners will need to access. It’s equally important to decide where to store materials learners will need to access. This style container fits the flexible layout configuration thanks to its rolling design. Establish Routines.

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Examining the extremely small

Futurum

A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Evelyn’s lab develops advanced microscopy methods, combining microscopy with spectroscopy to study how small molecules are taken up and transported in materials at the molecular level. How small are things at the nanoscale?

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

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. So what exactly did Boltzmann really do in his 1872 paper?

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

The energy of the particles is indicated here by the size of the “token dots”: Continuing this a few more steps we get: At the beginning we started with all particles having equal energies.

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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

We’ve also built our groundbreaking symbolic computational geometry system that lets us flexibly describe regions for PDEs. We’ve already got heat transfer , mass transport and acoustics. We can also take a single video and “summarize” it as a series of video + audio snippets, chosen for example equally spaced in the video.