Biography of Albert Einstein 

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German-American physicist Albert Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the 20th-century vision of physical reality. In the wake of World War I, Einstein's theories, especially his theory of relativity, seemed to many people to point to a pure quality of human thought, one far removed from the war and its aftermath. Seldom has a scientist received such public attention for having cultivated the fruit of pure learning.

Born in Ulm in Germany on March 14, 1879, Einstein’s parents were nonobservant Jews who moved from Ulm to Munich when Einstein was an infant. The family moved yet again to Milan in Italy in 1894, when the family business of manufacturing electrical apparatus failed.

At this time Einstein decided officially to relinquish his German citizenship. Within a year, still without having completed secondary school, Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to pursue a course of study leading to a diploma as an electrical engineer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (the Zurich Polytechnic). He spent the next year in nearby Aarau at the cantonal secondary school, where he enjoyed excellent teachers and first-rate facilities in physics. Einstein returned in 1896 to the Zurich Polytechnic, where he graduated (1900) as a secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics.

After a lean two years he obtained a post at the Swiss patent office in Bern. The patent-office work required Einstein's careful attention, but while employed (1902-09) there, he completed an astonishing range of publications in theoretical physics. For the most part these texts were written in his spare time and without the benefit of close contact with either scientific literature or theoretician colleagues. Einstein submitted one of his scientific papers to the University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second paper to the University of Bern and became a lecturer there. The next year Einstein received a regular appointment as associate professor of physics at the University of Zurich.

By 1909, Einstein was recognized throughout German-speaking Europe as a leading scientific thinker. In quick succession he held professorships at the German University of Prague and at the Zurich Polytechnic. In 1914 he advanced to the most prestigious and best-paying post that a theoretical physicist could hold in central Europe: professor at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin. Although Einstein held a cross-appointment at the University of Berlin, from this time on he never again taught regular university courses. Einstein remained on the staff at Berlin until 1933, from which time until his death (in 1955) he held an analogous research position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.

Einstein’s special theory of relativity assumed that light travelled through space in the form of photons. He also asserted that the speed of light in a vacuum is invariant, and is independent of the speed of its source. His equations showed that mass increases with velocity, and that time is foreshortened by velocity.

Until the end of his life Einstein sought a unified field theory, whereby the phenomena of gravitation and electromagnetism could be derived from one set of equations. After 1920, however, while retaining relativity as a fundamental concept, theoretical physicists focused more attention on the theory of quantum mechanics - as elaborated by Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and others - and Einstein's later thoughts went somewhat neglected for decades. This picture has changed in more recent years. Physicists are now striving to combine Einstein's relativity theory with quantum theory in a "theory of everything," by means of such highly advanced mathematical models as superstring theories.

A short fun skit

This skit is all about Studies and how children react at school.  I got it from the blog  http://lostinkids.blogspot.com and the URL of this skit is http://lostinkids.blogspot.com/2006/07/comedy-skit.html and this blog is also added in my favorites. I would really like to thank Lost in Kids for their help in getting children to enjoy a bit, too. Those who comment there please say my thanks.

Comedy Skit

Mr. R. : OK class, may I have your attention, please. I am going to ask you some math questions, so get ready. Are you ready? (Sam is sleeping on his desk.) Sam! Wake up! Sam!! Do you think you can sleep in my class?
Sam: Well I could if you’d quit yelling!

Mr. R.: OK class, get ready. Here is the first math question: If you worked for ten hours at a wage of one dollar per hour, what would you get?
Tina: A new job!

Mr. R.: What do you get when you divide 12 by 4?
Bobbie: The wrong answer!!
Mr. R.: Any nine year old should be able to answer that last question!
Bobbie: Well no wonder I couldn’t do it. I’m ten!!

Mr. R.: If I gave you a one dollar for each week for a whole year, what would you have?
Jacob: A new bike!

Mr. R.: If you reached into your pocket and found 6 quarters, 7 dimes, 3 nickels, and 12 pennies, what you have?
Alan: Someone else’s pants on!!

Mr. R.: If I had 7 apples in this hand and 9 apples in this hand, what would I have?
Lauren: Great big hands!

Mr. R.: Melissa, I am going to ask you a VERY simple math question. If you had 5 dollars and I asked you to give me 2 dollars, how much would you have?
Melissa: Oh I’d still have 5 dollars! I’m not giving you any of my money!!

(Stephen strolls on stage)
Mr. R.: Stephen, why are late for class?
Stephen: I left home late.
Mr. R.: Why didn’t you leave home earlier?
Stephen: Because it was too late to leave earlier.
Mr. R.: Stephen, this is the fifth straight day you’ve been late to class. What do you have to say for yourself?
Stephen: Boy, am I glad it’s Friday!!

Alex: Mr. R., I’m going to miss school on Monday because I’ll be home sick.
Mr. R.: Are you feeling sick?
Alex: I’m not now, but I will be after my Dad sees this test score.
Mr. R.: Alex, You missed school yesterday. You’re missing too much school!
Alex: No I’m not! I stay home and play video games. I don’t miss school at all!

Mr. R.: Sam!! Are you awake! Sam! Are you awake?
Sam: Well now I am!!

Mr. R.: Alissa, I hope I didn’t see you looking at your neighbor’s test paper.
Alissa: I hope you didn’t either!

Mr. R.: OK, now let’s settle down and get ready for some social studies questions. Think social studies!! Now, class, what do George Washington and Abraham Lincoln have in common?
Tony: They’re both dead.

Mr. R.: John, you’re not ever raising your hand. Are you having trouble hearing?
John: No, I’m having trouble listening!

Mr. R.: Patty, Where was Queen Elizabeth crowned?
Patty: On her head!

Mr. R.: Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Joe: At the bottom of the page!

Mr. R.: A geography question: Where is the English Channel?
Greg: I don’t know. We don’t get cable!

Mr. R.: Can anyone name all the states in alphabetical order?
(silence)
Mr. R.: When I was your age, I could name all the states in alphabetical order.
Jacob: Yeah, but there were a lot less states when you were our age.

Mr. R.: Where was George Washington buried?
Tina: In the ground?
Mr. R.: NO! NO! He was buried at Mt. Vernon. Can anyone tell me why he was buried at
Mt. Vernon?
Andrea: Because he was dead!

Melissa: Mr. R., I have a question.
Mr. R.: Does it have to do with social studies? I don’t want any stupid questions.
Melissa: No, this is a real question about history.
Mr. R.: OK. What’s the question?
Melissa: What did Paul Revere say when he finished his famous ride? (pause) WHOA! WHOA HORSIE! Whoa!!!

Mr. R.: OK, stop laughing! That isn’t that funny. That’s not funny! Let’s talk about some of yesterday’s tests and test scores. Audrey, did you think the test questions were hard?
Audrey: No, the questions were easy. It was the answers that were hard.

Mr. R.: Tina, I had trouble reading your test because your handwriting is terrible. I think you should learn to write neatly.
Tina: Mr. R., I already know how to write neater.
Mr. R.: Well then, why don’t you do it!!??!
Tina: If I wrote neater, you’d find out that I can’t spell!
Mr. R.: Well then you need to buy a dictionary.
Tina: I’m waiting for it to come out on video.
Mr. R.: Spelling isn’t that hard. Let’s do an easy word that you have been learning how to spell for four years. How do you spell school?
Tina: S – K – U – U – L?
Mr. R.: That isn’t how it’s spelled in the dictionary!
Tina: I thought you asked me how I spelled it!

Mr. R.: Class, stop laughing! That wasn’t that funny! (Maria raises her hand.) Yes, Maria?
Maria: Mr. R., I am also having a hard time learning how to spell.
Mr. R.: You too? Why is that?
Maria: Because all the words are different!

Mr. R.: Sam!! Wake up!! You act like you don’t want to be here. Do you like going to school?
Sam: I like coming and going to school. It’s the in-between part I don’t like!

John: Mr. R., I ain’t got no pencil.
Mr. R.: I haven’t got a pencil!!
John: That makes two of us!

Kenneth: Mr. R., I am sure thankful I wasn’t born in Germany.
Mr. R.: What are you talking about? Why in tarnation, are you glad you weren’t born in Germany?
Kenneth: Because I can’t speak German.

Mr. R.: Let’s get back to work! Here is an easy question. No one can miss this: What can birds do that humans can’t? (pause) What can birds do that humans can not??
Callie: Sit on telephone wires!!!!

Joe: Mr. R., I sure am glad everyone calls me Joe.
Mr. R.: Well Joe, why is that?
Joe: Because that’s my name!!

Mr. R.: I think this class is full of idiots. I want any of you who realize that you’re an idiot to please stand up. (long pause, then Elizabeth stands up)
Mr. R.: Elizabeth, are you an idiot?
Elizabeth: No. I just hated to see you standing there all by yourself!!!

Mr. R.: OK. That’s the recess bell. This morning I told the class that everyone had to stay in for recess, but I’ve changed my mind. I want all of you to go to recess. I don’t know why I’m doing this, but I’m gonna let all of you go to recess.
Thomas: Mr. R., I know why you’re gonna let us go to recess.
Mr. R.: Why is that, Thomas?
Thomas: Because it’s a nice thing to do, and old people always do nice things.

(Kids rush out the door laughing and yelling. Mr. R. bangs his head against the wall in frustration. End of show.)


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More Brainteasers

Well, here they are! So get goin'!

1- Read the sentence below very carefully then follow the directions in the box beneath.

Forty-five of the finest Finnish foot-soldiers of all ranks marched often.  

Now determine the number of F's in this sentence by reading it only once more. Don't go back over it again.

2- The capital letters E, M and W share a common physical characteristic that can't be found in any other of the capital letters. What is it?

3- Nancy's mother's brother's daughter's uncle is Nancy's:

a. Grandfather
b. Cousin
c. Father
d. Daughter

How much time did it take you?

Brainteasers are here!

See if you can answer the following questions! Well can you?

1- Martha's friend wanted to know how heavy a bucket was. Martha told her friend it was "18 pounds divided by half its own weight". How much did the bucket weigh?

2- If four factory workers can fill four boxes of chocolates in four minutes, how many workers would be needed to fill 100 boxes in 100 minutes?

3- Billy's father-in-law's only daughter's mother-in-law's Billy's?

a. Mom
b. Grandma
c. Sister
d. Cousin
e. Daughter

4- You have a four minute timer and a three minute timer. They are both of the hour glass variety where sand filtering from one chamber to another marks the time.

How would you accurately mark the passing of five minutes?

5- Below, in scrambled form, is a word which is commonly used in everyday language.See how long it takes you to unscramble it.

T L R C E I E O N A C A

6- A mural consists of a certain design of different colors arranged in a grid.The number of individual designs. The number of individual designs forms a perfect square. Originally there had been one fewer design in each row and column, but the artist was told he had more room to add up to 100 more designs. He added 99 more. What was the original number of designs and the new total?

7- The day before the day before yesterday is three days after Tuesday.What day is today?

8- A bucket filled with water weighs 50lbs.When one half of the water is poured out, the bucket and the remaining water weigh 27.25lbs. How much does the bucket weigh?

9- If a teacher can place her students four to a bench, there will be three students on the final bench. But if five children are placed on each bench, there will be four students on the final bench. What is the smallest number of children the class could have?

10- Two mints and three cookies cost 39 cents. But three mints and two cookies cost 36 cents. How much does one cookie cost?

Hope you enjoy! : D

Famous Quotes

This is a blog all about brainteasers as I love brainteasers. I hope you enjoy these brainteasers. No one in the world hates brainteasers. Off course they’re sometimes very hard and difficult but not that bad. And I’m sure they are pieces of cakes for many people, especially students.

Brainteasers are for leisure time as they are so easy. But if anyone thinks they are difficult or hard, (which they aren’t) then don’t be disheartened because practice is all you need.

I have put some wonderful quotes by famous scientists and personalities. These quotes are all about mathematics.

· Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.  ~Albert Einstein

· This most beautiful system [the universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.  ~Sir Isaac Newton

· If you fail the first time you try, remember that there is always a second chance. ~Thomas Edison

· Always remember, Hard work is the key to success. ~The Blog

I have made this website for all sorts of people to enjoy with their best friends called brains. Have a nice time!