Search results for "Acceleration due to gravity" - New World Encyclopedia
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- energetic processes on the Sun all the way to the farthest reaches of the ... radiation that people on Earth are exposed to. For astronauts, however, the ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- 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
