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WHAT FAMOUS SCIENTIST DID SHE FEEL HAD SLIGHTLY FLAWED work? and what part of the work was flawed?

Newton, his theory about velocity, v squared

Who did Faraday get tickets to see?

Sir Humphrey Davy

What was happening in France at the time?

The French Revolution

Who did du chatelet hide?

Voltaire

What job did Faraday hold?

bookeeper's apprentice

How did Davy die?

drug overdose, laughing gas specifically

Faraday proposes that electricity and magnetism are part of one concept called

electromagnetics

What were the two pillars of science in the 19th century?

energy and mass

What did Faraday's religion believe?

everything was created by God in a unified way

what was maxwell's relationship to Faraday?

friends

What happened to Sir Humphrey that gave Faraday his chance?

he lost his eye in an experiment

What did Gottfried von Leibniz propose?

inner spirit

When you pass electricity through a wire, what happens to a compass?

it spins perpendicular to wire

What kinds of things did Marie Anne do?

learned English to translate research, helped research, drew and took notes

What first piqued Einstein's curiosity?

magnets

What did faraday lack in his proposal that light is an electromagnetic wave?

math to prove it

Was einstein a good student?

no

What characteristic of Antoine led to his downfall and was of great benefit?

obsessive attention to details

Where did Einstein wind up working? why?

patent office, his teachers wouldn't recommend him

What is important about the speed in which electricity and magnetism are related?

travel at the speed of light

What question did Einstein ask Mileva Meric?

what would happen if you approached the speed of light, road a beam of light

Were these pillars seperate?

yes

How fast is light? What letter represents it?

670 mill miles per hour, c

This meant that

Faraday was correct

How did Lavoisier die and why?

He was beheaded because he was a tax collector

What discovery did Faraday help invent through his experimentations?

electric motor

What two concepts does this experiment show interacting?

electricity and magnetism

In the early 1800s, science was usually preformed by who?

rich and elite

What was his passion?

science/knowledge/religion

What did Faraday start?

second industrial revolution

What did Emilie du Chatelet do in respect to Newton?

she fixed his flawed equation and translated his work

Why was her pregnancy bad?

she was old

What things did she accomplish that were firsts for women?

she was published and translated

What was his real job?

tax collector

Why was this important?

the amount of matter in the universe is constant

What was Lavoisier's great discovery?

Mass is not created or destroyed

Was he rich?

no

What was Faraday accused of? By who?

Plagiarism by Davy

Who does Einstein marry first?

Mileva Maric


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