Newton’s Third Law of Motion – Physics
The ballet dancer Misty Copeland jumps high by pushing off the floor. As with the First and Second Laws of Motion, an Islamic scientist was the first to propose the [...]
The ballet dancer Misty Copeland jumps high by pushing off the floor. As with the First and Second Laws of Motion, an Islamic scientist was the first to propose the [...]
How hard will the ball hit the catcher's glove? It depends how big the ball is. how fast the pitcher throws it, and how far away the catcher is. Like [...]
Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist About 1000 AD, in the Islamic Empire, Ibn Sina came up with the idea that an object moving in a vacuum would just keep moving forever without slowing [...]
Light takes years to reach us from these stars far away in space. When solid objects move through space, they follow certain rules that let us predict how they will act. We call [...]
Gottfried Leibniz, a German mathematician - Enlightenment science What set off the Enlightenment? By 1650 AD, Europeans understood Islamic algebra and trigonometry better. Then they combined that with the exciting invention of the telescope and microscope (thanks to [...]
Medieval Islamic science: Al Tusi's diagram of linear motion from circular motion Indian and African science In the Early Middle Ages, before the formation of the Islamic Empire, Buddhists ran the world's biggest [...]