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the existence of vacuum. Furthermore you could have some more information in the website about the work of Otto (in German) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhFpez0na_w …………………………………………………………………………………… [...] considerations regarding the vacuum and fill the table below. Scientists Name Time period lived Country worked Views about the vacuum Plato Aristotle Evangelista Torricelli Blaise Pascal Otto von Guericke (1602-1686)
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aversion against any emptiness. This discussion flamed up again in the 17 th century. Beneath the work of Galilei, Torricelli and Pascal in Italy and France, the mayor of Magdeburg, a town in the center [...] aversion against any emptiness. This discussion flamed up again in the 17 th century. Beneath the work of Galilei, Torricelli and Pascal in Italy and France, the mayor of Magdeburg, a town in the center [...] to compensate the applied force of about ten men on the right. However, what one cannot see is the work that has to be done, to conduct this experiment. Schott illustrates in his technica curiosa a setup
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have invented the device. However, it is unclear whether he had been familiar with Wilcke’s work or whether his work serves as an example of an independent development. The operations with the electrophorus [...] his father died. In 1752, Georg was enrolled in the secondary school in Damstadt. Thanks to his hard work and creativity, he gained few prizes. Pastor’s family did not suffer from poverty, but they did not [...] outstanding teacher of young Georg was the physics and maths lecturer, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, who worked also in the astronomical observatory in the university. The time of studies was not easy for Lichtenberg
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interrupted him. “Seal this barrel now! And seal it completely!” The man muttered something but began to work and he didn’t even stop as the fire fighters arrived with their hoses and nozzles. Finally the barrel [...] The men started to pump. Relatively soon they were groaning because it became harder and hard- er to work the pump. But then the barrel made 2 Story Otto and the Emptiness Storytelling Teaching Model: ht [...] wouldn’t stop. Otto was wondering what that could be – when he saw that the pumping men could suddenly work the pump more easily again. The barrel wasn’t sealed, air was flowing in! Otto was very disappointed
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when Magdeburg was taken over by Swedish people, he came back to his homecity, where he started to work in the city’s administration. During the following ten years, he was involved in rebuilding the city [...] physics professor in the Jesuit College in Würzburg, Jesuit Gaspar Schott. In 1657, Schott published the work entitled Mechanica hydraulico- pneumatica, in which one of the chapters was devoted to describe all [...] electrostatic generator, with the sulphur sphere as the basic element. In 1672, in Amsterdam, the work of Guericke’s life entitled Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio was published
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his father died. In 1752, Georg was enrolled in the secondary school in Damstadt. Thanks to his hard work and creativity, he gained few prizes. Pastor’s family did not suffer from poverty, but they did not [...] outstanding teacher of young Georg was the physics and maths lecturer, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, who worked also in the astronomical observatory in the university. The time of studies was not easy for Lichtenberg [...] planning to write his own textbook, but he never did that. Although, he had never published any bigger work in natural history with his name, he was considered as one of the most outstanding contemporary scholars
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have invented the device. However, it is unclear whether he had been familiar with Wilcke’s work or whether his work serves as an example of an independent development. The operations with the electrophorus [...] electrical charges. However, most researchers in the field of electricity remained ignorant of Wilcke’s work; and the electrophorus was particularly made known by the Italian Alessandro Volta (who is best known [...] other electrical phenomena) be explained with both conceptual ideas. However, another researcher worked with the electrophorus, and he seemingly made an observation that could be used as evidence for the
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Nature of Science is evident into Gurie’s work, based on the narration as well as the lesson activities. 8. Compose a presentation about the life and the work of Maria Gurie in science, in order to present
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that is conserved, and thus there is a direct ratio between the mechanical work and the heat that can be produced by the work. Joule started to talk, and while he was talking he felt more and more that [...] had raised his attention to a certain aspect of a well-known principle: The conversion of mechanical work or electricity into heat. Even though this convertibility was established, what puzzled Joule was [...] was a newly appointed professor of physics in Glasgow, he had studied in Cambridge and afterwards worked with the French Victor Regnault, the leading experimentalist in the sciences of heat. Having gained