Archimedes Presentation

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Table of Contents

Other Mathematics Achievements

Bibliography

Later Years

Law of the Lever

Principle of Buoyancy

Other Scientific Achievements

Volume of Sphere

Pi

Who is Archimedes?

Early Life

Archimedes' Screw

Return to Syracuse

Later Years

Claw of Archimedes

Heat Ray

Thesis

Thank you!

Archimedes, a polymath, made many new, unprecedented discoveries, and as a result had a profound impact on the sciences and mathematics fields.

Who is Archimedes?

Greek polymath (ca 287 - 212 BCE)

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor

Engineer, Astronomer

Archimedes' Screw

Archimedes

Other Mathematics Achievements

Early Life (cont'd)

By: Kinton Cheung

Early Life

December 4, 2012

Alexandria, Egypt

• Grains -> 8 * 10^63
• Side of 12-gon
• Sqrt(3)
• New number system
• Calculus

Phidias + Hiero

Conon of Samos

Euclid

Syracuse

Archimedes' Screw

Return to Syracuse

Volume of Sphere

First Punic War

Later Years (212 BCE)

Principle of Buoyancy

Hiero II

Pi (3.141592653...)

Marcellus

Gold

Defend Syracuse

w/Archimedes

Circle -> hexagon -> 12-sided -> 24-sided -> 48 -> 96...

"Do not disturb my circles!"

• Principle of Buoyancy
• Law of Lever
• Volume of sphere

Weight of Buoyancy = Weight Displaced by Water

• Claw of Archimedes
• Heat Ray

On the Sphere and Cylinder

3.14084507042 ->

3.14285714285

Float vs Sink

Claw of Archimedes

Heat Ray

Other Scientific Achievements

Law of the Lever

100 * 2 = 50 * 4

• Pulley
• Odometer
• Circumference of Earth
• Length of year
• Measure angles of rising sun
• Catapult
• ...

Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth.