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Chi-Yung Chan
Mrs. Barkley
Physics P.6
11 January 2014
Waves Research Project
Light waves are the things that are reflected back into our eyes everywhere we look around us. Lights from the light bulb, sun and etc.. is light different wave lengths into one, for example if you were to hold a prism on to light and leave it on the table you would see how the light passes one side and on the other side different colors lights are seen. Different colors are seen because of the different wavelengths that are present in white light. The color of the objects that you see means that the object absorbs every color except the colors you see which is reflected back to you. Different types of light waves include ultraviolet, infrared, x-rays, gamma, microwaves and radio waves. Light is like tiny particles that bounce off of objects in order for us to see it as explained by Isaac Newton. Light travels in space in calculated in light years and 1 light year is equivalent to 5.9 trillion miles which is 186,282 miles per second! All light are essentially electromagnetic ...
The humpback whale is a baleen whale and a rorqual whale that sings amazing songs. It performs complex and cooperative feeding techniques. The humpback has a bulky head with bumpy protuberances (tubercles), each with a bristle. Humpbacks are acrobats of the ocean, breaching and slapping the water. They live in pods and have 2 blowholes. The name hu...
As I am sure all of you know, we have recently been able to see a new but not permanent additon to the night sky. This addition is known as Hale-Bopp, a comet that is about 122 million miles (about 1.3 times the distance of the sun to the earth) from the earth and is approximately 25 miles wide. Hale-Bopp was discovered on July 23,1995 by two scien...
Robert Wright is the science writer for Time Magazine. Because he writes for this popular magazine, he enjoys the attention of many readers who look to him to provide them with the latest news from the scientific community. After reading The Evolution of Despair, an article written by Wright, I came under the impression that he is both reporter a...
In , particles ionize gas atoms. The tube contains a gas at low pressure. At one end of the tube is a very thin 'window' through which charged particles or gamma rays pass. Inside the tube is a copper cylinder with a negative charge. A rigid wire with a positive charge runs down the center of this cylinder. The voltage across the wire and cyli...
The chemical make-up of sodium chloride is NaCl. Sodium Chloride is composed of is composed of a negatively charged chloride ion (Cl) and a positively charged sodium ion (Na). So I believe that when sodium chloride is dissolved in water the two ions that compose the sodium chloride should separate, and support an electrical current that would be s...
