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09-15-2003, 01:57 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
 Join Date: May 26, 2002
Location: The Cloudy Town Of Hellview
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...is?
Got home from school today and was told i need to find information on this..thing...unlike everyone else in my class i wasnt told what it was called(missed the beginning of the lessons to see my 'mentor'). So until someone from my class comes online im stumped unless one of you guys knows... And as the collective I.Q of IW-ers combined might be in 3 digits i think it will do a lot better than my 1 [img]tongue.gif[/img] . Cheers, J.W.K |
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09-15-2003, 02:14 PM
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Baaz Draconian
 Join Date: April 26, 2002
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well, i dont have an answer...
but i suppose, the earliest measure would be when cave man thought ooo light, thats bright, or dark or whatnot and so measured on perception. same for sound. If you meant measuring scientifically, like the speed of those, then i suppose it would be around early 1900s or some such when einstein figured stuff out. |
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09-15-2003, 02:18 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
Join Date: November 25, 2002
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Did you consider asking the teacher? Does your teacher give the students his/her phone number (some do)? If so, why not call and ask them or see if the teacher has any info online if your school has a webpage.
Sorry I can't be of more help
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09-15-2003, 02:25 PM
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Apophis
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Does your school have a website? IF so, your teachers email might be there. OUr school requires all teachers to have an a school email address, such as LMichael@YHS.org
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09-15-2003, 02:26 PM
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Harper
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Human eye and/or ear. By definition, the earliest human intruments for measuring and analysing light and sound. I can think of a couple of old gadgets for measuring various things to do with light and sound, but nothing that stands out as the oldest one. And even if there was, your teacher could be on about something else entirely.
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09-15-2003, 02:29 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
Join Date: May 26, 2002
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LMAO about the cave man theory [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] .
It's a new teacher for me and the school, so i doubt they will have her contact numbers on their website because it hasnt been updated in about a year. I would try school but i know there not allowed to give out staff or pupils numbers or addresses. I'm not the only person who is unsure of the thing, but I have an excuse...woo go me... I think i'll just go and see her tomorrow  ...or find someone to copy off...
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09-15-2003, 02:36 PM
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Apophis
Join Date: July 10, 2001
Location: By a big blue lake, Canada
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Wasn't the first try to measure the speed of light a totally ridiculous experiment? A guy with a lamp standing 50 meters away from another man who had a stop watch or something... Or perhaps my high school physics teacher was playing a joke on us. He always was...
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09-15-2003, 03:23 PM
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Zhentarim Guard
 Join Date: May 27, 2001
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I found this about the hilltop thing.
This precise measurement is the latest step in a long history of measurement, beginning in the early 1600s with an unsuccessful attempt by The Italian scientist Galileo to measure the speed of light. He attempted to do this, by measuring the time it took for light from a lantern to travel from one hilltop to another. The website is http://www.mustsee.co.il/hebrew/yeda...ght/light.html There is alot of good info here. Not sure what area are you looking into. Are you lookin gfor a machine that measured it or the math formual? What class is this for? Granamere [ 09-15-2003, 03:24 PM: Message edited by: Granamere ] |
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09-15-2003, 11:54 PM
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Drow Priestess
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You might also try this link about the Michelson-Morley experiments to measure the speed of light. The speed of light had already been calculated theoretically, but this ground-breaking experiment answered several questions and posed still several more.
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