Monday 10 December 2012

Motion and graphs

 Motion and speed 

               Speed : distance travelled
                            _____________    
                                time taken


The other formula and equations:

                 distance travelled = speed x time taken   'or'   time taken = distance travelled
                                                                                                              _____________
                                                                                                                      speed

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Distance- time graphs 

                A distance - time graph is a good way of showing how something moves.

    - Gradient or slopes give speed.
    - Straight line mean constant speed.
    - A steep line means a lot of distance is being covered in a short time.
    - A gradual line means a short distance is being covered in a long period.


              Example of distance-time graphs

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Acceleration

                                   Acceleration is the rate at which an object changes it's velocity.


                                                     Acceleration: change in velocity
                                                                          _______________
                                                                              change in time


 units of acceleration: ( m/s2)

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Velocity-time graph

    - Gradient or slopes tell us the object acceleration / deceleration.
    - Slope of velocity-time graph shows how quickly a velocity of object is changing.
    - Straight lines mean constant acceleration.
    - Area under the graph gives distance travelled.
                                   
                                                                  Example of velocity-time graph



                               The area under the graph is the distance that object has covered.



                           

Monday 3 December 2012

Molecular clouds.




             
                                                  Sometimes called a stellar nursery.

 What is molecular clouds? 
        Molecular clouds isa large and relatively dense of cold gas and dust in interstellar space from which new stars are born. It also contain a high fraction of molecules.
     
              

       Molecular clouds are the principal sites of ongoing star formation. Therefore, they tend to be associated with young stars and star-forming regions. The nearest star-forming clouds are found in the constellations Ophiuchus, Taurus, and Perseus, at distances of 125, 140, and 300 parsecs (1 parsec = 3 × 1013 km or 2 × 1013 mi), where the nearest regions of active low- and intermediate-mass star formation are found. These cloud complexes have masses ranging from several thousand to perhaps over 10,000 times the mass of the Sun. However, most of the molecular gas in the Milky Way Galaxy is concentrated into giant clouds with masses more than 100,000 times the mass of the Sun. The nearest giant molecular clouds are located at a distance of 460 parsecs toward the constellation Orion where, over the last 107 years, they gave birth to tens of thousands of stars, including several dozen relatively rare high-mass stars.Most molecular clouds have temperatures of only 10 K. Molecular clouds are orders of magnitude more dense than the general interstellar medium, with gas densities ranging from about 10 molecules per cubic centimeter on large scales to over 106 molecules per cubic centimeter in cloud cores. The sizes of individual clouds range from less than 0.1 parsec for small clouds and dense cores to over 100 parsecs for giant molecular clouds. In addition to star-forming molecular clouds concentrated toward the plane of the Milky Way, there are many smaller and lower-density molecular clouds visible most clearly far away from the galactic plane, with the closest ones only about 50 parsecs from the Sun.
Molecular clouds have a very complex internal structure consisting of clumps and filaments of dense gas surrounded by interclump gas of much lower density. Individual clumps usually have supersonic internal motions with a velocity of severalkilometers per second. The powerful outflows produced by young stars during the first 100,000 years of their existence may be a major source of these chaotic motions. Magnetic fields which thread molecular clouds may play a role in thelongevity of turbulent motions and may support clouds against gravitational collapse.
About 100 different chemical species have been so far identified within molecular clouds, indicating that there is a rich chemistry taking place. See also Interstellar extinction.





                           



Astronomy



                   This video is about the the space. It's include all the things such as planet , comets , asteroids , and the solar system. You also can know  the meaning of astronomy when you watch this video. This video is so interesting with the music backgrounds and many pictures.