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An Overview of Teaching Physics for Undergraduates in Engineering Environments
Education Sciences, 2019 This paper is an overview of approaches to teaching physics courses delivered to students of engineering disciplines. It addresses, first, the history of teaching physics to engineering students starting in the early 20th century, then reviews the main ...
Janusz Zalewski +2 more
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On the early history of the Finnish Meteorological Institute [PDF]
History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 2014 This article is a review of the foundation (in 1838) and later developments of the Helsinki (Finland) magnetic and meteorological observatory, today the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI).
H. Nevanlinna
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Tides and Volcanoes: A Historical Perspective
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 In this paper, we examine the origins and the history of the hypothesis for an influence of tidal forces on volcanic activity. We believe that exploring this subject through a historical perspective may help geoscientists gain new insights in a field of ...
Gianluca Sottili +2 more
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Philosophies, 2018 Multiple sciences have converged, in the past two decades, on a hitherto mostly unremarked question: what is observation? Here, I examine this evolution, focusing on three sciences: physics, especially quantum information theory, developmental biology ...
Chris Fields
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Professor at Saratov and Moscow Universities Sergei A. Boguslavsky (1883–1923) [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: ФизикаBackground and Objectives: The article systematizes biographical information about Sergey A. Boguslavsky, an outstanding Russian theoretical physicist of the first quarter of the 20th century, one of the first professors of the Faculty of Physics and ...
Anikin, Valery Mikhailovich
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The discipline and the content of kinematics in physics text books of Brazil – 1801 to 1930 [PDF]
Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, 2008 In this paper we analyzed how the content of kinematics was presented in Physics textbooks used in the Brazilian school since the 19th century to the 1930’s.
Roberto B. Nicioli Junior +1 more
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Diakrisis, 2020 In this paper, I will present some important ideas about the relation between religious experience and metaphysics in Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy.
Andreea Stoicescu
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Semantic aspects of musical language
Convergências - Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes, 2023 Music is a multifaceted phenomenon: it carries the mission of aesthetic education and enlightenment, performs therapeutic functions and is not only a source of information, but also the subject of filling human consciousness with a sense of joy, drama ...
Olena Y. Vereshchahina-Biliavska +4 more
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Granite on the Ground: Former Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg/Germany. A brief introduction [PDF]
, 2015 Beiträge zum Symposium „Urban design and dictatorship in the 20th century: Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, Spain and Germany. History and Historiography“. Weimar, 21.-22.
Birkholz, Marie Luise
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Berliner Geowissenschaftlerinnen an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität von 1906 bis 1945, eine Fallstudie [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2003 In dieser Untersuchung werden beispielhaft die Lebenswege und Karrieren von Berliner Geowissenschaftlerinnen im Zeitraum von 1906 bis 1945 nachgezeichnet und analysiert. Ähnlich wie an anderen deutschen bzw. westlichen Universitäten, aber im Gegensatz zu
B. A. R. Mohr, A. Vogt
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