John Napier is most famous for his invention of Logarithms. In his book Mirifici Logarthmorum Canonis Descriptio or Description of the Marvelous Rule of Logarithms, Napier explained How logarithms could be used for simplifying complex equations, the sole use for logarithms at his time. Napier's thinking capabilities were not limited to logarithms. ...
Napier was working on logarithm appendix, where the natural logarithms of various numbers appeared on a table where e was initially discovered. In 1624, Briggs almost discovered e and gave the numerical approximation to the base 10 logarithm of e but did not mention e in his work. In 1661, Huygens got the relationship between rectangular hyperbola and the logarithm. ... However, he did not make any connection between his work and logarithms and he did not directly call e e. ...
The pre-history of computers. The first computer was the abacus which was first developed in 2800 B.C. It was the zenith of calculating technology until the 1st century. In the early 1600's, John Napier invented the Napier's bones which were multiplication tables inscribe on wood. He also invented...
For example, the discovery of logarithm just in time refined Johannes Kepler's theorem. ... John Napier is famous for his discovery of logarithms. And the discovery of logarithms is also famous for helping Kepler. In the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, it was described that "His invention of logarithms with base e was announced in 1614. ...
Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to learn and use the techniques of titration which would then determine the amount of acid in an unknown. Introduction: One of the most common reactions in chemistry is the reaction of an acid with a base. This reaction is called neutralization. In ...
Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1791. His father, Benjamin Babbage was a banker. When Charles was a child, he had a major interest in algebra, and was overall truly interested and gifted in mathematics. Cabbage attended Trinity College in Cambridge in 1811. He found himself to be...
California Earthquakes In 1989, a major earthquake devastated business and residential sections of San Francisco and the surrounding area, destroying a section of the Bay Bridge and an elevated freeway and killing over 75 people. California is earthquake country! The people of the major cities in...
ARE THEY TAKING OVER DO THEY EVER SMILE? OR, GET ANGRY "Expert systems, case-based reasoning, neural networks, and genetic logarithms represent an applied branch of the computer science field of artificial intelligence (AI)". According to Henry Lucas (2000 p. 595) As our world simultaneously ...
Johannes Kepler, was a German born Physicist who was mainly known for his knowledge of planetary orbits. Kepler also contributed numerous works in optics. One of his discoveries was discovering 2 new regular polyhedra. He also gave the first proof of how logarithms worked. Clearly Johannes Kepl...
Black Holes Every day we look out upon the night sky, wondering and dreaming of what lies beyond our planet. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the variance that lies beyond our grasp. Within this marvel of wonders, our universe holds a mystery that is very difficult to understand because of the complications that arise when trying to examine and explore the principles of space. That mystery happens to be that of the ever elusive, black hole. This essay will hopefully give you the knowledge and understanding of the concep...
Black Holes Every day we look out upon the night sky, wondering and dreaming of what lies beyond our planet. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the variance that lies beyond our grasp. Within this marvel of wonders, our universe holds a mystery that is very difficult to understand because of the complications that arise when trying to examine and explore the principles of space. That mystery happens to be that of the ever elusive, black hole. This essay will hopefully give you the knowledge and understanding of the ...
Black Holes Every day we look out upon the night sky, wondering and dreaming of what lies beyond our planet. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the variance that lies beyond our grasp. Within this marvel of wonders, our universe holds a mystery that is very difficult to understand because of the complications that arise when trying to examine and explore the principles of space. That mystery happens to be that of the ever elusive, black hole. This essay will hopefully give you the knowledge and understanding of the concepts, prop...
D&M Pyramid ?Introduction In 1976, the Viking mission to Mars obtained images of the Martian surface of an area known as the Cydonia. In analyzing these images, Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, image interpreters from NASA, discovered an unusual for...
History of the Computer Industry The history of the Computer Industry and how it has affected our lives. Only once in a lifetime a new invention comes along and affects every one life. This device changed the way we work, play, learn, and live. It has changed the aspect of everyone's life and that ...
Earthquakes I. Seismic Waves to Study Earth's Interior A. Travel Time, Reflection, Refraction of P & S Waves 1. Travel time of body waves gives us VP, VS, and (density) as a function of depth. 2. Velocity of P & S waves increases with depth. B. Earth's Layered Composition 1. Crust a. Qu...
The History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention i...
The History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention...
Computers: Invention of the Century The History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the ...
As an object moves, it's mass increases, and time goes slower for the object. Exactly determining the position and momentum of an object is impossible. A particle is mostly here, but partially there, and partially somewhere else. A vacuum consists of electrons with negative mass. In vacuum, particles appear out of nothing for a very short period of time and then disappear. ...
Computers: Invention of the Century The History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the Un...
As the clouds rolled asunder before the heights, gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountainsides and glaciers and ridges, now one fragment, now another, through the floating rifts, until, far higher in the sky than imagination dared to suggest, a prodigious white fang - an excrescence from the jaw of the world - the summit of Everest appeared. These were words from George Mallory's first attempt at tackling Everest. George Mallory, among others, has attempted the daunting task of summiting Everest. Some have succeeded; others have failed, more often than not, resulting in deat...
The History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention...
INTRODUCTION JOB EVALUATION In the early 1880s when Frederick Taylor was working upon the ways to improve productivity of Midvale Steel Company, he formulated a systemic study of assigning pay to jobs. The result of this study came to be known as job evaluation. Definition: Method, which helps to establish a justified rank order of jobs. It is one of the starting points for establishing the relative differentiation of wage rates. REASONS FOR JOB EVALUATION To establish an orderly, rational, systemic structure of jobs based on their worth to the organization. To justi...
How Sound are the Foundations of the Aggregate Production Function? Abstract: The aggregate production function has been subject to a number of criticisms ever since its first empirical estimation by Cobb and Douglas in the 1920s, notably the problems raised by aggregation and the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies. There is a further criticism due initially to Phelps Brown (and elaborated, in particular, by Simon and Shaikh) which is not so widely known. This critique is that because at the aggregate level only value data can be used to estimate production function, this means that ...
