Search results for "Acceleration due to gravity" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224 ... may still be active today. In contrast to the constant crustal movement ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- of gravitation by his imaginative solutions to mathematical problems. He contributed ... a farm-laborer. He owed his education to the interest excited in some ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- and 1610, when Galileo made improvements to his telescope, enabling him ... were chosen by Simon Marius. Marius claimed to have discovered the moons at ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- The term is also used in a narrower sense to describe the fundamental "fireball ... towards longer wavelengths proportional to each galaxy's distance ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- time, whose brilliant career was cut short due to excessive use of alcohol ... Best had a rare combination of pace, blistering acceleration, balance ...22 KB (3,398 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- natural phenomenon and many people travel to remote locations in order to ... Sun and the Moon as seen from Earth appear to be approximately the same: ...35 KB (5,853 words) - 13:54, 2 February 2023
- In common usage, the term light (or visible light) refers to electromagnetic ... There are many sources of light. Most often, a body that is heated ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- of heavier elements. The Sun is thought to be about 4.6 billion years ... changing magnetic field that varies year-to-year and reverses direction ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- multiple atomic particles join together to form a heavier nucleus. It ... extreme power of a fission bomb is necessary to begin the process. While some ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- European windstorms, and polar lows, leading to their classification as "warm ... The adjective "tropical" refers to both the geographic origin ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- An elevator or lift is a transport device used to move goods or people ... Elevators are used to lift cargo and equipment; e.g. lifting aircraft ...49 KB (7,939 words) - 16:09, 13 February 2024
- structures must not collapse without due warning) or serviceability ... small number of basic structural elements to build up structural systems ...56 KB (8,392 words) - 21:05, 26 February 2023
- a cold-climate period from roughly 12,900 to 11,500 BP. global warming. Such warming is linked to various, deleterious global ...86 KB (12,789 words) - 20:17, 1 June 2023
