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Expand Up @@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ \subsection*{How did du Châtelet prove that Leibniz was right?}
As Leibniz did not provide good evidence for his theory she added up the experiments of a guy named sGravesande, who was not able to publish his research because he was not a theoretician enough. The research of sGravesande was that he let weights fall onto a soft clay floor. The research showed proof for Leibniz equation $E=mv^2$: If Newton's simple $E=mv^1$ was true, then a weight going twice as fast as an earlier one would sink in twice as deeply. One going three times as fast would sink three times as deep. But that's not what 'sGravesande found. If a small brass sphere was sent down twice as fast as before, it pushed four times as far into the clay. If it was flung down three times as fast, it sank nine times as far into the clay. Which is just what thinking of $E=mv^2$ would predict. Soon after her publishing she had a baby and died within a week after due to an infection. This was usual during that time, as the doctors did not know that they need to wash their instruments and had no antibiotics to control infections etc.

\subsection*{Why is squaring the velocity of what you measure such an accurate way to describe what happens in nature?}

Not the Answer, but a prove for the answer: \emph{One reason is that the very geometry of our world often produces squared numbers. When you move twice as close toward a reading lamp, the light on the page you're reading doesn't simply get twice as strong. Just as with the 'sGravesande experiment, the light's intensity increases four times. When you are at the outer distance, the light from the lamp is spread over a larger area. When you go closer, that same amount of light gets concentrated on a much smaller area. The interesting thing is that almost anything that steadily accumulates will turn out to grow in terms of simple squared numbers. If you accelerate on a road from 20 mph to 80 mph, your speed has gone up by four times. But it won't take merely four times as long to stop if you apply brakes and they lock. Your accumulated energy will have gone up by the square of four, which is sixteen times. That's how much longer your skid will be.}\\
\textbf{Answer:} The interesting thing is that almost anything that steadily accumulates will turn out to grow in terms of simple squared numbers.

\subsection*{What does it mean for mass when c2 is such a large figure?}
it's almost as if the ultimate energy an object will contain should be revealed when you look at its mass times c squared, or its mc2

\subsection*{8. Mass is simply the ultimate type of condensed or concentrated}
This means that mass is simply the ultimate type of condensed or concentrated energy. Energy is the reverse: it is what billows out as an alternate form of mass under the right circumstances. As an analogy, think of the way that a few wooden twigs going up in flames can produce a great volume of billowing smoke. To someone who'd never seen fire, it would be startling that all that smoke was "waiting" inside the wood. The equation shows that any form of mass can, in theory, be manipulated to expand outward in an analogous way. It also says this will happen far more powerfully than what you would get by simple chemical burning—there is a much greater "expansion." That enormous conversion factor of 448,900,000,000,000,000 is how much any mass gets magnified, if it's ever fully sent across the "=" of the equation.
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\section{Einstein and the Equation}
\section{Einstein and the Equation}

\subsection*{When and where did Einstein publish the equation?}

\subsection*{What material discovered in the 1890s gave hints about the equation?}

\subsection*{Who was Marie Curie and how did she die?}

\subsection*{Why are atomic bombs so powerful?}

\subsection*{What was so ground-breaking and amazing about Einstein’s discovery? (p. 80, 84)}

\subsection*{How precisely did he discover it? (p. 80 top)}

\subsection*{How could you explain the theory of relativity easily? (p. 83)}

\subsection*{What does the term ‘relativity’ NOT mean? (p. 84)}

\subsection*{How did Einstein’s upbringing and background help him discover ‘relativity’?}

\subsection*{How did Einstein’s family life develop as his theory became gradually accepted?}
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\section{Into the Atom}
\section{Into the Atom}

\subsection*{How is Ernest Rutherford’s character described?}
\subsection*{What break-through discovery about the atom did he make?}
\subsection*{Why did scientists assume that a lot of energy was hidden in the nucleus?}
\subsection*{Who was James Chadwick and what did he discover?}
\subsection*{Who was Enrico Fermi?}
\subsection*{What important technique did he provide in 1934?}

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