An Introduction to the Science of Physics

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It surely is true that across all physics that vast amounts of knowledge and the solutions to enormous variations of problems come from within a minute number of models and equations. If you appreciate these concepts, the keys to many other questions inherently follow. The universe has a seemingly limitless number of objects, phenomena, and happening which appear unrelated at first glance. The principal purpose of physics is to discover cohesions and configurations, such that you can use understandings of past experiments and observations to foresee plausible future products.

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The Economic Advantages of Self-Driving Vehicles

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With the seemingly inevitable uprising of the self-driving vehicle, gear-heads and car enthusiasts alike are in dismay over the various effects they will have. Their woes may be lessened, however, by the vast array of the potential positive impact these SD cars will have on our economy. In the United States today, drivers see around 30,000 annual deaths resulting from auto accidents annually. The self-driving vehicle aims to reduce this number to nearly 0.

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An Explication of Modern Reasearch on Animal Emotions

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There is everlasting dissension encompassing the capacitance of nonhuman animals (hereafter animals) to experience emotions (Ekman, 1992). Contemporaneous intelligence insinuates the conceivability of animal sentiments homogenous to those of humans. These span from positive emotions like happiness, love, and elation to negative emotions like fear, embarrassment, and sorrow (Safina, 2015). Scientists are frequently apprehensive of discussing emotionality in animals due to the ineradicable challenges of generating meaningful empirical data to substantiate their hypotheses.

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The Organization of Elements on the Periodic Table

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Since the inception of chemistry as a science, 118 elements have been discovered or synthesized. Each has its very own place in the periodic table of elements. This incredible scientific marvel celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2019, which was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of the Periodic Table (Cleave and Crans 2). Without this tool, scientists would be hard-pressed to perform valid, consistent scientific experiments, and the entire field would be something else entirely.

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The Government’s Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

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When asked about artificial intelligence (AI), people tend to describe it as a technology that thinks and acts as a human would. This misunderstanding of AI is a gross confusion of its conceptual purpose and application. In an article published by Cambridge University Press, Nils J. Nilsson of Stanford University formally defines the multifaceted theory: "Artificial intelligence is that activity devoted to making machines intelligent, and intelligence is that quality that enables an entity to function appropriately and with foresight in its environment."

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