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Go read (covered this so many times in class but this post does a great job to sum things up with where we stand)… Striving for the Speed of Light : Starts With A Bang: “It’s always easy to point out the difficulties with a dream. The stars, after all, are so incredibly far away, [...]

SpaceCam — Griffin Science

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Using what we know about Newton’s Laws, could we send a camera into space? What would it take? Want to try after we’re done with the balloon racers?

Here’s the homework for this week (you can find most of this in Chapter 9 of your textbook): Homework 10

Here are the notes we covered in class today… Formulas: F = ma a = Change in V / Change in T v = Change in d / Change in T s = positive movement Units: F = Newton (1 N = 1 kgxm/s2) a = m/s2 v = m/s S = forward movement… no [...]

I definitely have to see the data and an experiment to confirm this to think it could even be remotely true… but if it is… wow! A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein’s [...]

Albert Einstein had an amazing year in 1905. At the age of 26, he published three papers that changed the way humanity thinks about the universe. In fact, 1905 has been called the “Miracle Year” because of Einstein’s contributions. Even now, 104 years later, scientists are still studying these papers and applying them to new [...]

The 125th Space Shuttle mission launches today, and it’s a big day for science! NASA has a fantastic interactive webpage they’ve built for the mission so you can learn more about the mission’s goals (always good to have those!), the astronauts and the Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks to the principles of acceleration, trajectory, projectiles, chemical [...]