SPACE HERO'S
Carlos Ismael Noriega
First Peruvian-born person in space.
(born 1959) is a Peruvian and U.S. citizen, NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel..
Noriega was born on October 8, 1959, in Lima, Peru, but moved to Santa Clara, California when he was only 5. He is married to the former Wendy L. Thatcher; they have five children. i.
1977: Graduated from Wilcox High School, Santa Clara, California
1981: Bachelor of science degree in
from University of Southern California
1990: Master of science degree in computer science from the Naval Postgraduate School
1990: Master of science degree in space systems operations from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Selected by NASA in December 1994, Noriega reported to the Johnson Space Center in March 1995. He completed a year of training and evaluation, and was qualified for assignment as a mission specialist in May 1996. He held technical assignments in the Astronaut Office EVA/Robotics and Operations Planning Branches. Noriega flew on STS-84 in 1997 and STS-97 in 2000. He has logged over 461 hours in space including over 19 EVA hours in 3 space walks. Following STS-97, Noriega trained as the backup commander for ISS Expedition 6 and later as a member of the crew of STS-121. In July 2004, Noriega was replaced by Piers Sellers on the crew of STS-121 due to a temporary medical condition. While awaiting future flight assignment Noriega served as Chief, Exploration Systems Engineering Division, Engineering Directorate, Johnson Space Center. In January 2005, Noriega retired from the NASA Astronaut Corps, but continues to serve as the Manager, Advanced Projects Office, Constellation Program, Johnson Space Center.
Yakovlevich Solovyev
first Latvia-born man in space
( born January 16, 1948, in Riga - alternate spelling "Solovyov") is a retired Russian and Soviet cosmonaut and pilot. Solovyev holds the world record on the number of spacewalks performed , and accumulated time spent spacewalking (over 82 hours).
Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972.
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan
first American woman to walk in space.( born October 3, 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she is the first American woman to walk in space. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator on March 6, 2014.
Sullivan is a 1969 graduate of William Howard Taft High School in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, California. She was awarded a bachelor of science degree in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1973, as well as a Ph.D. in geology from Dalhousie University in 1978.[1]
Sullivan performed the first EVA by an American woman during Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-G on October 11, 1984. She flew on three space shuttle missions and logged 532 hours in space.
After leaving NASA, Sullivan served as president and CEO of the COSI Columbus, an interactive science center in Columbus, Ohio and as Director for Ohio State University's Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy as well as a volunteer science advisor to COSI. She was appointed to the National Science Board by President Bush in 2004.
In 2009, Sullivan was elected to a three-year term as the chair of
the Section on General Interest in Science and Engineering for the
American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
First African and Black Man in Space .
Also First (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Latin American and the first person of African ancestry in space; he was proclaimed at the time as the first black cosmonaut.
Born in Guantánamo,Tamayo graduated from the Cuban Air Force Academy and became a pilot in the Cuban Air Force..
Tamayo was selected as part of the Soviet Union's seventh Intercosmos program on March 1, 1978. His backup in the Intercosmos program was fellow Cuban José López Falcón.
Tamayo, along with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, was launched into space aboard Soyuz 38 from Baikonur Cosmodrome on September 18, 1980, at 19:11 UTC. After docking with Salyut 6, Tamayo and Romanenko conducted experiments in an attempt to find what caused space adaptation syndrome (SAS), and perhaps even find a cure, and on the crystallisation of sucrose in microgravity, for the benefit of Cuba's sugar industry. The SAS experiment involved wearing special adjustable shoes for six hours every day that placed a load on the arch of the foot. After 124 orbits of the Earth (lasting 7 days, 20 hours and 43 minutes), Tamayo and Romanenko landed 180 km (110 mi) from Dzhezkazgan. The landing was risky, as it was during the night
LAWS OF UNIVERSE
1] Newton's Laws
of Motion :
a] Newton's 1st law of
motion :
Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving
uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to
change its state by force
impressed.
b] Newton's 1st law of motion :
The change of momentum of a body is proportional to the impulse
impressed on the body, and happens along the straight line on which
that impulse is impressed.
c] Newton's 1st law of motion :
Law III: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
2] Euler's law momentum :
a] Euler's 1st law of momentum :
Euler's first law states that the linear momentum of a body, p
(also denoted G) is equal to the product of the mass of the body m
and the velocity of its center of mass vcm: \mathbf p = m \mathbf
v_{\rm cm}.
Internal forces between the particles that make up a body do not
contribute to changing the total momentum of the
body.[4]
The law is also stated as:\mathbf F = m \mathbf a_{\rm cm}.where
acm = dvcm/dt is the acceleration of the centre of mass and F = dp/dt
is the total applied force on the body. This is just the time
derivative of the previous equation (m is a constant).
b] Euler's 2nd law of momentum :
Euler's second law states that the rate of change of angular
momentum L (also denoted H) about a point that is fixed in an
inertial reference frame, or is the mass center of the body, is
equal to the sum of the external moments of force (torques) M (also
denoted t or G) about that point:[1][2][3]
\mathbf M = {d\mathbf L \over dt}.
For rigid bodies translating and rotating in only 2d, this can be
expressed as:[5]
\mathbf M = \mathbf r_{\rm cm} \times \mathbf a_{\rm cm} m + I
\boldsymbol{\alpha},
where rcm is the position vector of the center of mass with respect
to the point about which moments are summed, a is the angular
acceleration of the body, and I is the moment of inertia. See also
Euler's equations (rigid body dynamics).
3] Ampere's Law :
The line integral of the magnetic flux around a closed curve is
proportional to the algebraic sum of electric currents flowing
through that closed curve; or, in differential form curl B =
J. This was later modified to add a second term when it
was incorporated into Maxwell's equations.
4] Archimedes' Principle :
A body that is submerged in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal
in magnitude to the weight of the fluid that is displaced, and
directed upward along a line through the center of gravity of the displaced
fluid.
5] Avogadro's Hypothesis (1811) :
Equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure
contain equal numbers of molecules. It is, in fact, only true for
ideal gases.
6] Bernoulli's Equation
:
In an irrotational fluid, the sum of the static pressure, the weight of the fluid per unit mass times the height, and half the density times the velocity squared is constant throughout the fluid.
7] Biot-Savart Law :
A law which describes the contributions to a magnetic field by an
electric current. It is analogous to Coulomb's
law.
8] Boyle's Law (1662) :
Mariotte's law (1676) The product of the pressure and the volume of
an ideal gas at constant temperature is a constant.
9] Bragg's Law (1912) :
When a beam of X-rays strikes a crystal surface in which the layers
of atoms or ions are regularly separated, the maximum intensity of
the reflected ray occurs when the complement of the angle of
incidence, theta, the wavelength of the X-rays, lambda, and
the distance between layers of atoms or ions, d, are related by the
equation 2 d sin theta = n lambda,
10] Brownian Motion (1827)
:
The continuous random motion of solid microscopic particles when
suspended in a fluid medium due to the consequence of ongoing
bombardment by atoms and molecules.
11] Casimir Effect :
A quantum mechanical effect, where two very large plates placed
close to each other will experience an attractive force, in the
absence of other forces. The cause is virtual particle-antiparticle
pair creation in the vicinity of the plates. Also, the speed of
light will be increased in the region between the two plates, in
the direction perpendicular to them.
12] Causality Principle :
The principle that cause must always preceed effect. More formally,
if an event A ("the cause") somehow influences an event B ("the
effect") which occurs later in time, then event B cannot in turn
have an influence on event A. That is, event B must occur at a
later time t than event A, and further, all frames must agree upon
this ordering.
13] Centrifugal Pseudoforce :
A pseudoforce on an object when it is moving in uniform
circular motion. The "force" is directed outward from the center of
motion.
14] Charles' Law (1787) :
The volume of an ideal gas at constant pressure is proportional to
the thermodynamic temperature of that gas.
15] Cherenkov Radiation :
Radiation emitted by a massive particle which is moving faster than
light in the medium through which it is traveling. No particle can
travel faster than light in vacuum, but the speed of light in other
media, such as water, glass, etc., are considerably lower.
Cherenkov radiation is the electromagnetic analogue of the sonic
boom, though Cherenkov radiation is a shockwave set up in the
electromagnetic field.
16] Complementarity Principle :
The principle that a given system cannot exhibit both
wave-like behavior and particle-like behavior at the same time.
That is, certain experiments will reveal the wave-like nature of a
system, and certain experiments will reveal the particle-like
nature of a system, but no experiment will reveal both
simultaneously.
17] Compton Effect (1923) :
An effect that demonstrates that photons (the quantum of
electromagnetic radiation) have momentum. A photon fired at a
stationary particle, such as an electron, will impart momentum to
the electron and, since its energy has been decreased, will
experience a corresponding decrease in frequency.
18] Conservation Laws :
Conservation of mass-energy The total mass-energy of a
closed system remains constant. Conservation of electric
charge The total electric charge of a closed system remains
constant. Conservation of linear momentum The
total linear momentum of a closed system remains
constant. Conservation of angular momentum The total
angular momentum of a closed system remains
constant.
There are several other laws that deal with particle physics, such
as conservation of baryon number, of strangeness, etc., which are
conserved in some fundamental interactions (such as the
electromagnetic interaction) but not others (such as the weak
interaction).
19] Constancy Principle :
One of the postulates of A. Einstein's special theory of
relativity, which puts forth that the speed of light in vacuum is
measured as the same speed to all observers, regardless of their
relative motion.
20] Continuity Equation :
An equation which states that a fluid flowing through a pipe flows
at a rate which is inversely proportional to the cross-sectional
area of the pipe. It is in essence a restatement of the
conservation of mass during constant flow.
21] Copernican Principle (1624) :
The idea, suggested by Copernicus, that the Sun, not the Earth, is
at the center of the Universe. We now know that neither idea is
correct.
22] Coriolis Pseudoforce (1835) :
A pseudoforce which arises because of motion relative to a frame of reference which is itself rotating relative to a second, inertial frame. The magnitude of the Coriolis "force" is dependent on the speed of the object relative to the noninertial frame, and the direction of the "force" is orthogonal to the object's velocity.
23] Correspondence Principle :
The principle that when a new, more general theory is put forth, it
must reduce to the more specialized (and usually simpler) theory
under normal circumstances. There are correspondence principles for
general relativity to special relativity and special relativity to
Newtonian mechanics, but the most widely known correspondence
principle is that of quantum mechanics to classical
mechanics.
24] Coulomb's Law :
The primary law for electrostatics, analogous to
Newton's law of universal gravitation. It states that the force
between two point charges is proportional to the algebraic product
of their respective charges as well as proportional to the inverse
square of the distance between them.
28]
Dulong-Petit Law (1819) :
The
molar heat capacity is approximately equal to the three times
the ideal gas constant: Einstein Field Equation The
cornerstone of
29]
Einstein's general theory of relativity :
relating
the gravitational tensor G to the
stress-energy
tensor T by the simple equation G = 8 pi T.
30]
Einstein's Mass-Energy Equation :
The
energy E of a particle is equal to its mass M times the square of
the speed of light c, giving rise to the best known physics
equation in the Universe: E = M c2.Equivalence
Principle The basic postulate of A. Einstein's general theory of
relativity, which posits that an acceleration is fundamentally
indistinguishable from a gravitational
field.
31]
Faraday's Law :
The
line integral of the electric field around a closed curve is
proportional to the instantaneous time rate of change of the
magnetic flux through a surface bounded by that closed curve; in
differential form curl E = -dB/dt, where here d/dt represents
partial differentiation.
32] Faraday's Laws of electrolysis :
Faraday's first law of electrolysis The amount of chemical change during electrolysis is proportional to the charge passed.
33] Faraday's second law of electrolysis :
The
charge Q required to deposit or liberate a mass m is proportional
to the charge z of the ion, the mass, and inversely proportional to
the relative ionic mass M; mathematically Q = F m z /
M,
34] Faraday's first law of electromagnetic induction
:
An
electromotive force is induced in a conductor when the magnetic
field surrounding it changes.
35] Faraday's second law of electromagnetic induction
:
The
magnitude of the electromotive force is proportional to the rate of
change of the field.
36]Faraday's third law of electromagnetic induction :
The sense of the induced electromotive force depends on the
direction of the rate of the change of the field.
37]Fermat's Principle
The principle states that the path taken by a ray of light between
any two points in a system is always the path that takes the least
time.
38] Gauss'Law :
The electric flux through a closed surface is proportional to the
algebraic sum of electric charges contained within that closed
surface; in differential form div E = rho, where rho is the
charge density.
39] Gauss' Law for magnetic
fields :
The magnetic flux through a closed surface is zero; no magnetic
charges exist; in differential form
div B = 0.
40] Hall Effect
:
When charged particles flow through a tube which has both an
electric field and a magnetic field (perpendicular to the electric
field) present in it, only certain velocities of the charged
particles are preferred, and will make it un-deviated through the
tube; the rest will be deflected into the sides.
41] Hooke's Law
:
The stress applied to any solid is proportional to the strain it
produces within the elastic limit for that solid. The constant of
that proportionality is the Young modulus of elasticity for that
substance.
42] Huygens' Principle :
The mechanical propagation of a wave (specifically, of light) is
equivalent to assuming that every point on the wavefront acts as
point source of wave emission
43] Ideal Gas Law
:
An equation which sums up the ideal gas laws in one simple
equation P V = n R T,
44] Joule-Thomson Effect
:
Joule-Kelvin EffectThe change in temperature that occurs when a gas
expands into a region of lower pressure.
44] Joule's Laws :
Joule's first law The heat Q produced when a current I
flows through a resistance R for a specified time t is given by Q =
I2 R t .
45] Kirchhoff's Rules :
loop rule The sum of the potential differences encountered in
a round trip around any closed loop in a circuit is
zero.
46] Point rule :
The sum of the currents toward a branch point is equal to the sum
of the currents away from the same branch
point.
47] Kohlrausch's Law :
If a salt is dissolved in water, the conductivity of the solution
is the sum of two values -- one depending on the positive ions and
the other on the negative ions
48] Lambert's Laws
:
Lambert's first law The illuminance on a surface illuminated by
light falling on it perpendicularly from a point source is
proportional to the inverse square of the distance between the
surface and the source.
49] Lambert's second law :
If the rays meet the surface at an angle, then the illuminance is
proportional to the cosine of the angle with the
normal.
50] Lambert's third law :
The luminous intensity of light decreases exponentially with
distance as it travels through an absorbing
medium.
51] Laplace Equation :
For steady-state heat conduction in one dimension, the temperature
distribution is the solution to Laplace's equation, which states
that the second derivative of temperature with respect to
displacement is zero.
52] Lenz's Law (1835) :
An induced electric current always flows in such a direction that
it opposes the change producing it.
54] Mach Number :
The ratio of the speed of an object in a given medium to the speed
of sound in that medium.
55] Mach's Principle (1870) :
The inertia of any particular particle or particles of matter is
attributable to the interaction between that piece of matter and
the rest of the Universe. Thus, a body in isolation would have no
inertia.
56] Maxwell's Equations (1864) :
Gauss' law The electric flux through a closed surface is
proportional to the algebraic sum of electric charges contained
within that closed surface; in differential form div E = rho,
where rho is the charge density.
57] Gauss' law :
for magnetic fields The magnetic flux through a closed surface is
zero; no magnetic charges exist. In differential form div B =
0.
58] Faraday's law :
The line integral of the electric field around a closed curve is
proportional to the instantaneous time rate of change of the
magnetic flux through a surface bounded by that closed curve; in
differential form curl E = -dB/dt,..
59] Newton's Law of
universal gravitation :
Two bodies attract each other with equal and opposite forces; the
magnitude of this force is proportional to the product of the two
masses and is also proportional to the inverse square of the
distance between the centers of mass of the two bodies; F =
(G m M/r2) e, where m and M are the masses of the two bodies, r is
the distance between. the two, and e is a unit vector directed from
the test mass to the second.
60] Occam's Razor (1340) :
If two theories predict phenomena to the same accuracy, then the
one which is simpler is the better one. Moreover, additional
aspects of a theory which do not lend it more powerful predicting
ability are unnecessary and should be stripped
away.
61]Ohm's Law (1827):
The ratio of the potential difference between the ends of a
conductor to the current flowing through it is constant; the
constant of proportionality is called the resistance, and is
different for different materials.
62] Pascal's Principle :
Pressure applied to an enclosed incompressible static fluid is
transmitted undiminished to all parts of the
fluid.
63] Peter Principle :
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of
incompetence.
64] Planck Equation :
The quantum mechanical equation relating the energy of a photon E
to its frequency nu: E = h nu.
65] Reflection Law (Snell's Law ):
For a wavefront intersecting a reflecting surface, the angle of
incidence is equal to the angle of reflection, in the same plane
defined by the ray of incidence and the normal.
66] Refraction Law :
For a wavefront traveling through a boundary between two media, the
first with a refractive index of n1, and the other with one of n2,
the angle of incidence theta is related to the angle of refraction
phi by n1 sin theta = n2 sin phi.
67]Relativity Principle :
The principle, employed by Einstein's relativity theories, that the
laws of physics are the same, at least qualitatively, in all
frames. That is, there is no frame that is better (or qualitatively
any different) from any other. This principle, along with
the constancy principle, constitute the founding
principles of special relativity.
68] Stefan-Boltzmann Law :
The radiated power P (rate of emission of electromagnetic energy)
of a hot body is proportional to the radiating surface area, A, and
the fourth power of the thermodynamic temperature, T. The constant
of proportionality is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant.
Mathematically P = e sigma A T4,.where the efficiency rating e is
called the emissivity of the object.
69] Superposition Principle :
The general idea that, when a number of influences are acting on a
system, the total influence on that system is merely the sum of the
individual influences; that is, influences governed by the
superposition principle add linearly.
70]Thermodynamic Laws :
a]First law of
thermodynamics : The change in internal energy of a system
is the sum of the heat transferred to or from the system and the
work done on or by the system.
b]Second law of
thermodynamics : The entropy -- a measure of the
unavailability of a system's energy to do useful work -- of a
closed system tends to increase with time.
c] Third law of
thermodynamics : For changes involving only perfect
crystalline solids at absolute zero, the change of the total
entropy is zero. Zeroth law of thermodynamics If two bodies are
each in thermal equilibrium with a third body, then all three
bodies are in thermal equilibrium with each other.
71] Uncertainty Principle (1927) :
A principle, central to quantum mechanics, which states that two
complementary parameters (such as position and momentum, energy and
time, or angular momentum and angular displacement) cannot both be
known to infinite accuracy; the more you know about one, the less
you know about the other.
72] Van der Waals force :
Forces responsible for the non-ideal behavior of gases, and for the
lattice energy of molecular crystals. There are three causes:
dipole-dipole interaction; dipole-induced dipole moments; and
dispersion forces arising because of small instantaneous dipoles in
atoms.
73] Wave-Particle Duality :
The principle of quantum mechanics which implies that light (and,
indeed, all other subatomic particles) sometimes act like a wave,
and sometime act like a particle, depending on the experiment you
are performing. For instance, low frequency electromagnetic
radiation tends to act more like a wave than a particle; high
frequency electromagnetic radiation tends to act more like a
particle than a wave.
74] Wiedemann-Franz Law :
The ratio of the thermal conductivity of any pure metal to its
electrical conductivity is approximately constant for any given
temperature. This law holds fairly well except at low
temperatures