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was the speed of electromagnetic waves, including light waves. This feature of Maxwell's
theory caused a crisis in physics because it indicated that speed was not always relative. ... travel faster than the fundamental speed c. In Newton's gravitation theory, however,
information about gravitation moved at infinite speed. If a star exploded into two...
... that are
present on earth in such a small concentrations that they were previously unknown. For
example, in analyzing the spectrum of minerals found in the water of a certain spring in
Germany, ... area.
d. a long and pointed stream of burning gas
e. to recognize
f. to discover
g. a small amount of a substance scientifically
examined and analyzed
h. a pa...
... three are equal. If something
else balances the piece of brass, it also balances the wood and the gold and
therefore has the same mass. The equal- arm balance gives us a way of
comparing masses ... shoelace, or scratch an itch.
Close your eyes and imagine waking up and going into your kitchen for
breakfast. Now fantasize that as you walk in, all frictional forces ease to exist!...
...
not. In an inductive paragraph, the controlling idea of the paragraph lies right at the very
beginning of the paragraph in the introductory part of the paragraph. It is contrary to the way
we ...
special theory of relativity, that mass and energy are equivalent. Consequently, the
separate laws of conservation of mass and of energy found a more general and exact
formu...
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Paragraph 2:
TRANSLATION
Task one: English-Vietnamese translation
1.
Quantum holography
, in which a pair of laser pulses reveals detailed information
about an atom's state, has been ... models, in everyday life
and in science, as a method of simplifying and making sense of everything we observe.
A model is a way of explaining something difficult in term...
... prepositions that are followed by a gerund
after
against
as a result
as well as
because of
besides
by
by means of
despite
for
in
in addition to
in favor of
in spite of
instead of
on account ... useful in understanding any physical process.
The following are the adjectives with their prepositions that can take a gerund
afraid of
amazed at
angry abo...
...
(
Adapted from
Physics, an Introduction
by Jay Bolemon, 1989)
Before you write the summary for each passage, find the main and sub-main ideas of
each paragraph by underlining them. For example, ... example, a double line (===) for a main idea and a
single line (______) for a sub-main idea. Then, from those underlined, you develop into a
paragraph. This paragraph wil...
... of the voltage
across the capacitor. Therefore, twice as much current will flow through a capacitor that has a
capacity or size of 2 farads as in a capacitor of 1 farad capacity. In an ideal ... recall that volume is not a reliable measure of the quantity of matter,
particularly in the case of a gas, since a gas expands and contracts appreciably as the pressur...
... revealing a
violation of a certain symmetry in the decay of
neutral kaons
(a type of meson, which in turn
is a subatomic particle that is made up of quarks and antiquarks). As a result of this tiny ... nothing but radiation, or the matter and antimatter may have in some way separated. If so,
where is the antimatter?
From careful searches for the radiation tha...