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2016 Jan

  • 2016 Jan

    Global Warming and Rising Sea Levels

    Global warming is an imminent threat to entire humanity. The rising temperatures of seas and earth surface results in irregular seasons, high intensity hurricanes and other weather disasters that can potentially lead to droughts, mass migrations, food…

    January 7, 2016
  • 2016 Jan

    Physics and Differential Calculus

    Mathematics and physics are inseparably entangled. The role of mathematics in solving problems of physics is well known. The challenge mathematicians have faced in solving some of the problems of physics deserves a mention. Calculus is one…

    January 7, 2016
  • 2016 Jan

    Butterfly Effect and Chaos

    The weather prediction that you see on your smartphone is a result of humongous amount of calculations crunched by modern supercomputers. Accurate weather prediction is such a challenge that it wasn’t a reality until recently, till the…

    January 5, 2016
  • 2016 Jan

    Atomic bomb and Einstein's principles

    August 6, 1945, the day remembered in history for all the wrong reasons, depicted the devastation science, without humanitarian concern, can cause; A nuclear bomb was dropped on Japanese city Hiroshima. Three days later on August 9,…

    January 3, 2016
  • 2016 Jan

    GeoPhysics

    Geophysics is an interdisciplinary science that concerns the study of the physical nature, and natural processes, of Earth. It combines the fields of geology, physics and mathematics to solve problems and advance our understanding…

    January 2, 2016
  • 2016 Jan

    Laws of Thermodynamics

    Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that focuses on heat, work, energy and their interactions within a body, also within its immediate environment. It also concerns the conversion of thermal energy into other forms…

    January 1, 2016