Five Equations That Changed The World :: science

Five Equations That Changed The WorldHe Isaac Newton want out secluded areas, where he would sit for hours at a time, non so much to observe the natural world as to live with himself in it Sir Isaac Newton was a man who would keep to himself. If not for that step he may not have made the discoveries that he did. He would often sit in the garden for hours on end adept thinking and formulating his ideas about the universe. In fact, that is the very place where the ideas of gravity and motor(a) force first came to him. He noticed an orchard apple tree fall, and wondered why the apple fell to the earth but the moon didnt. His discoveries about gravity take to his equation E = G x M x m x d2, which means the force of gravity is pit to the gravitational constant multiplied by the two masses mingled divided by the square of the distance between them. This equation told scientists in NASA how to escape gravity and leave the earth to go to the moon. In different words, there appeared to be a trade-off between pressure and speeding The smaller the speed, the greater the pressure, or the greater the speed, the smaller the pressure This is a great discovery of Bernoulli. It seems to make sense when we apply it to blood line vessels. Where the blood moves faster, the more it pushes forward, the less it pushes on the walls. A later more cute application for this idea is flying. The airplane was invented after Bernoulli but not due(p) to him. The airplane and Bernoullis equation P + p x v2 = CONSTANT, were not connected until a Russian scientist by the name of Nikolai Zhukovsky made an excellent observation. He noticed that the tops of the wing of the plane were rounded. When he tested a plane in a wind tunnel, he noticed that the wings created two jet rain cats and dogss, an upper and a lower. The upper jet stream was narrower than the lower. Air is considered a fluid, so therefore the jet stream can be viewed as a river. According to Leonardo DA Vincis Law o f Continuity, which says A river of uniform depth will have a more rapid flow at the narrower section than at the wider, the upper jet stream is faster than the lower. This is an amazing discovery on Zhukovsky he had discovered how airplanes flew.