PHYSICS 20E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Radiometric Dating, Solar Wind, Y Chromosome
18 Jul 2016
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Acquisition of new powers(tech: saturn"s moon enceladus has liquid h20 under frozen surface, same constellations seen in rome and egypt, life is something that can reproduce and adapt to environment, gould: any population can produce more offspring than an environment can sustain, offspring vary in traits passed onto them, individuals with traits which best let them survive will be able to pass those traits down to offspring, newton: universal law: force of gravity: objects attract one another, speed affects orbit, sun was orbited because it"s most massive, empedocles water thief experiment to prove air, paracelsus alchemist who added sulfur, mercury etc to 4 elements, transmutation transforming one element to another, air we breathe is mostly nitrogen and oxygen, dalton: atoms only come together in certain ways (only 1 part carbon 4 parts hydrogen, spectroscopy: sorting light from a source by its component colors, #protons=#electrons, electrons dictate how element will bond.
