Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

Even back in Version 1.0 , when the documentation was a physical book, there were “See Also’s” between functions: And by now there’s a complicated network of such See Also’s: But that’s just the network of how functions point to functions. The issue is that there may be many mathematically equal forms of that expression.

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Computer Calculus Construction Mathematics 121

Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 30, 2025

And let's look at a powerful example of student engagement in a difficult STEM subject with Andrew vanden Heuvel and Fortnite physics. Engaging Students through Innovation : Discover how gamified learning tools like Fortnite Physics can make complex subjects fun and accessible. Michell Singh will share her wisdom on that.

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Gamification Astronomy Physics Creativity 240

Futurum

APRIL 12, 2023

The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather. When I was younger, I always loved math and science.

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Geography Publication Government Sciences 98

Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

we’ve done something else too: we’ve started creating explicit symbolic modeling frameworks for particular kinds of physical systems that can be modeled with PDEs. As a more sophisticated example, let’s take a classic “physics image”: This finds the positions of all the faces, then computes a shortest tour visiting each of them: &#10005.

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Construction Computer Physics Accessibility 70

Stephen Wolfram

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Yes, the microscopic laws of physics may be reversible (and indeed if our system is simple—and computationally reducible—enough of this reversibility may “shine through”). But in our Physics Project that’s not at all how things fundamentally work. The “laws of physics” may be the same—but what star (if any) is nearby will be different.

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Physics Computer Mathematics Elementary 138

Futurum

AUGUST 11, 2022

LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). PROFESSOR RAJA GUHATHAKURTA Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California Santa Cruz, USA. . Amanda talks about her astronomy work to a class of school students over Skype. SUPERNOVA – the explosion of a star.

Astronomy 98

Astronomy Equality Research Research 98

Futurum

APRIL 19, 2023

A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Nanoscientists manipulate materials at the atomic and molecular level, and thus nanoscience merges physics, chemistry, materials science and biology,” explains Susanne. How small are things at the nanoscale?

Chemistry 52

Chemistry Biology Physics Research 52

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics. physics) in Glasgow—began to be curious about.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 91

The Blog of Phyz

JANUARY 18, 2022

I am still waiting for that day but I have traveled into the stratosphere aboard NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). I put a lot of effort into helping my students understand free fall during my physics teaching career. I was excited about teaching it when I became a high school physics teacher.

Physics 52

Physics Equality Research Research 52