... how the Egyptians were able to move 5,000 pound blocks to the tops of the pyramids. The article I found is, "More Insight From Physics Into The Construction Of The Egyptian Pyramids," and it investigates three different methods, which are without ramps, straight ramps, or parallel ramps. Despite ... Building The Great Pyramid In A Year: An Engineer's Report, and it also concurs with the use of ramps; however, the book provides the physics associated with the efficiency or inefficiency of the ramps depending on their size. The book explains that the Egyptians did not use large ramps past ...

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... . As a close friend of Napoleon, and as first president of the Institute, he should have busied himself with carrying out Napoleon's suggested research programs. Instead, Monge became fascinated with the physics of mirages. The phenomenon became known to the French army quite early, when they marched across the desert from Alexandria to Cairo. The soldiers saw what seemed to be immense ... ...

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... deduction it is like you are living in an ideal world, because when you use deduction you neglect natural affects. An example of this is in the mathematical side of physics, when you use deduction to find out the falling speed of object, you have to neglect naturally things such as air resistance. Another drawback of using deduction is that fact ... ...

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... are the most advanced technologically ever. This is probably true, though there is no evidence to show that the Egyptians didn't possess some of the same knowledge of mathematics and physics as we do today. Certainly to build such structures they needed vast knowledge of geometry and algebra. Overall I believe that the Sphinx is over nine thousand years old. The evidence ... ...

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... scholarly surroundings. Science was fed many new discovered during the Ptolemaic period as well. Euclid, Archimedes, and Eratosthenes are a few examples of people who aided in the advancement of mathematics, physics, mechanics, medicine, and many other scientific fields. The popularity of Alexandria as a universal city strengthens the success of the Ptolemaic period allowing it to influence practically all aspects of the ... ...

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