…other location in Figure 5. Considering that the Arctic has 24 hours of sun in the summer and the projection effect reaches maximum, this result is in fact a good…
…This model shows the combined effects of heat capacity and conductivity. Conduction: Heat Conduction Through Materials Observe the rate of heat flow through materials with different conductivities. Conduction: The Effect…
Students need to understand the greenhouse effect to grasp the causes of global warming. Studying the greenhouse effect covers many important science topics—light, energy, molecules, heat, and temperature, to start—and…
Chad’s Great American Eclipse Chase: Part 8—Prepping 101—Planning and prioritizing for totality Blog Post
…be watching to see when these effects happen during this eclipse and how they change and evolve. Shadow bands as observed during an eclipse in 2001 The last effect to…
…on–that’s why it’s called RE-search! Read the ScienceDaily summary of the research at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101006141558.htm. Learn more about solar effects on Earth’s temperature and how climate scientists do research in our…
Information technologies—networked computers, software, and online communities—can provide incredible new resources for professional development. What is effective professional development? Too often, professional development focuses separately on either increasing teacher content…
…field effect transistor is the most common type of transistor. So we will focus on it in this activity.What exactly does a field effect transistor do? The answer is that…
What caused the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)? About 56 million years ago, Earth’s temperature was a lot warmer than it is today–as much as 21°F higher than today (see the…
They just measured relativistic effects between two atomic clocks differing by the speed of a fast bike rider and on length scales shorter than two feet. Boy, this world is…
…minds. In the case of Molecular Workbench, the effect is even more profound because the heart of it has actually been written in the universal language of humanity — mathematics….