Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Homogenous/Heterogenous

Homogenous/Heterogenous
Heterogeneous mixture- any combination of substances that does not have uniform composition and properties; a mixture of physically distinct substances with different properties.
6 Examples- sandy water, carbonated beverage or beer, orange juice with pulp in it, water with ice cubes in it, chicken noodle soup.

Homogeneous mixture- any combination of substances that has uniform composition and properties; a mixture that is uniform through out.
6 Examples- salty water(salt dissolved) brewed tea or coffee soapy water a dilute solution of hydrochloric acid hard alcohol wine

Friday, February 27, 2009

There are two main categories of subatomic particles - fermions and bosons. Fermions are the particles we think of as "stuff" - leptons like the electron, neutrino, and cousins, and quarks like the up quark and others in its sizable family. Gauge bosons are the particles that mediate the four fundamental forces of nature - the weak and strong nuclear forces, electromagnetism, and gravity. These include the familiar photon, and its far less-frequently-seen cousins, the W and Z bosons, gluons, and (physicists expect) the graviton, the much-sought-after particle thought to mediate gravitational interactions.
After the playing the game I learned: Gravitational force is stronger when an object is closer to it. The further away the planet the weaker the object.

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