- •Міністерство освіти і науки, молоді та спорту україни
- •Contents
- •Foreword
- •Unit 1: University.
- •The National Technical University of Ukraine
- •In small groups or pairs discuss the following questions.
- •Essential help
- •Unit 2:Imperial English: the Language of Science.
- •English language − around the world
- •If you have any difficulties, see Appendix 7.
- •Imperial english: the language of science?
- •What is the nature of Artificial Languages?
- •Unit 3: The Mind Machine?
- •The mind machine?
- •In pairs ask and answer questions based on the text "How to boost your memory" (Further Reading, unit 3).
- •Сша створюють комп'ютер з мозком людини Компанія ibm оголосила про початок роботи над комп'ютером, що працює за принципом людського мозку. Дослідження фінансується з державного бюджету сша.
- •Unit 4: iq testing
- •In pairs or small groups, try to find the answers to the following brain boosters.
- •Interesting facts about iq tests
- •Rational intelligence
- •Emotional intelligence
- •Financial intelligence
- •Unit 5: The Principal Elements of the Nature of Science: Dispelling the Myths.
- •The principal elements of the nature of science: dispelling the myths
- •In pairs ask and answer questions based on the text "Sir Isaac Newton" (Further Reading to unit 5).
- •Unit 6: Beauty in Science.
- •In the article below, find 3 adjectives, 3 adverbs, an adjective in the superlative degree, 3 irregular verbs and 3 prepositions.
- •A thing of beauty
- •Unit 7: Mathematics − the Language of Science.
- •Who invented math?
- •Mathematics − the language of science
- •П'єр Ферма
- •Unit 8: Recreational Mathematics.
- •Quadramagicology
- •1. Building on the Elbe in Hamburg-Altona, Germany
- •3. Crooked house, Sopot, Poland
- •Unit 9: The Dawn of Atomic Physics.
- •The dawn of atomic physics
- •Imagine that you are a great scientist working in a certain field of physics. You are invited to the university to tell students about your research or discovery.
- •In pairs ask and answer questions based on the text "The Famous Work of Ernest Rutherford" (Further Reading, unit 9).
- •Appendix 1: Further Reading unit 1 From the History of the National Technical University of Ukraine
- •The British Higher Education
- •Americans and Higher Education
- •Unit 2 Later Lingua Franca
- •Language and Science
- •Most Frequently Viewed Questions about English What is the Oxford Comma?
- •What is the difference between Street and Road?
- •Is there An Official Committee which regulates the English language, like the Académie française does for French?
- •Unit 3 How to Boost your Memory
- •Unit 4 Parts of an iq Test
- •Verbal Intelligence
- •Mathematical Ability
- •Spatial Reasoning Skills
- •Visual/Perceptual Skills
- •Darwin's Flowers
- •The First Vaccination
- •Unit 7 Who Created the Quadratic Formula?
- •Mathematical Problems
- •Who Created the Quadratic Formula?
- •The Formula Moves to Europe
- •The Importance of the Formula
- •Unit 8 a Brief History of Magic Squares
- •Unit 9 The Famous Work of Ernest Rutherford
- •Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics for 2011
- •1St place: Shifting the morals of quantum measurement
- •2Nd place: Measuring the wavefunction
- •3Rd place: Cloaking in space and time
- •4Th place: Measuring the universe using black holes
- •5Th place: Turning darkness into light
- •6Th place: Taking the temperature of the early universe
- •7Th place: Catching the flavour of a neutrino oscillation
- •8Th place: Living laser brought to life
- •9Th place: Complete quantum computer made on a single chip
- •10Th place: Seeing pure relics from the Big Bang
- •Appendix 2: Mini-Grammar the verb “to be”
- •The verb “to have”
- •Present form of have got
- •Present form of have
- •The active voice
- •We use present forms
- •Time expressions for present forms
- •We use past forms
- •Time expressions for past forms
- •We use future forms
- •Numerals
- •Articles
- •The possessive case присвійний відмінок
- •The Common Case The Possessive Case
- •Appendix 3: Irregular Verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Appendix 4: Abbreviations and Shortenings
- •Appendix 5: Mathematical Symbols and Expressions
- •Appendix 6: Measurement
- •America
- •Australia and oceania
- •Mini-Dictionary unit 1 University
- •The National Technical University of Ukraine
- •Imperial English: the Language of Science
- •Unit 3 The Mind Machine?
- •Iq Testing
- •Unit 5 The Principal Elements of the Nature of Science: Dispelling the Myths
- •Unit 6 Beauty in Science
- •Unit 7 Mathematics − the Language of Science
- •Unit 8 Recreational Mathematics
- •Unit 9 The Dawn of Atomic Physics
- •Possible Phrases for Conversational Practice
- •Problem-Solving
- •Unit 3 What's your brain power?
- •Unit 5 a famous puzzler's logic
- •If you took three apples from a basket that held 13 apples, how many apples would you have?
- •If nine thousand, nine hundred and nine pounds is written as £9,909, how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred and twelve pounds be written?
- •Cats & Dogs
- •Unit 8 Numbers Quiz
- •Unit 9 Science Quiz: General Physics
- •Physics Quiz
- •Scripts
- •Studies and degrees in great britain
- •Lingua franca: many languages for many different roles
- •Human brain vs. The computer
- •History of intelligence testing
- •Nikola tesla the genius who lit the world
- •Primordial soup
- •Nasa inventions you might use every day
- •Mathematics
- •Hip to be square: rubik's cubes and sudoku
- •Physics
- •References
Tell your partner about one or two new things about physics you have found out at the lesson.
Imagine that you are a great scientist working in a certain field of physics. You are invited to the university to tell students about your research or discovery.
Look at the table with equations. Think of the authors of these equations and their contribution to science.
What stories do you know about these scientists?
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Work in small groups. Read about top 10 breakthroughs in physics for 2011 and share your information with your fellowmates (Further Reading, UNIT 9).
In pairs ask and answer questions based on the text "The Famous Work of Ernest Rutherford" (Further Reading, unit 9).
LISTENING
Listen to the text “Physics” and decide whether the following statements are true or false.
Physics is a comparatively modern science.
Physics doesn’t deal with such sciences as philosophy, biology.
Classical physics became a separate science.
Natural science was developed from the 4th to 10th centuries BC.
Experimental physics appeared in the Ancient Greece.
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Listen again and complete the sentences.
New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental … .
Physics makes significant contributions through advances in … .
Physics is used to understand the behavior of natural … .
Early modern Europeans used experimental methods to discover … .
Modern physics started with the works of … .
WRITING
Write an abstract to the text "The dawn of atomic physics".
Work in small groups. You want to create some hyperlinks for the text "The dawn of atomic physics" with the aim of placing it on the Internet. Write some information to the following: Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie and Pierre Curie, polonium.
Read the text "The Famous Work of Ernest Rutherford" (Further Reading, UNIT 9) and write 5 sentences about the contribution of Ernest Rutherford to science.
PROBLEM-SOLVING
Try to solve the suggested problems (see Problem-Solving, UNIT 9).
Appendix 1: Further Reading unit 1 From the History of the National Technical University of Ukraine
“The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
On August 31 1898, the order of the Russian Emperor Nicolai II on the opening of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was proclaimed. The following four Colleges were established: Mechanical (109 students), Engineering (101 students), Agricultural (87 students) and Chemical (63 students). The idea to establish a technical educational institution was generated 18 years earlier on February 18, 1880.
The Association of Sugar Mill Owners decided to collect the necessary funds to establish a technical institution. About 139 associations, banks, departments and citizens donated funds for the construction of the University. The total cost of the construction and equipment was 2,650,000 roubles. A huge sum for that time!
The total area of buildings of the KPI without some wooden constructions was impressive – 9,111,080 cubic feet.
On November 25, 1896 the first document in the history of the technical educational institution in Kyiv proclaimed “Most appropriate type of a new educational institution is defined as a Polytechnic Institute, consisting of several departments of different specialties, similar to the Polytechnic Institutes in Zurich, Munich, Vienna, Dresden, Riga, etc.”
Essential scientific management assistance was made by the following leading scientists: D. Mendeleev, M. Zhukovskiy, K. Timiryazev, V. Kirpichev (appointed the first Director of the KPI), M. Konovalov, E. Paton, I. Sikorskiy.
The KPI became the foundation for broadening and reinforcing higher education networks in Kyiv and Ukraine. From 1922 to 1933, and later, some KPI departments and colleges were transformed into many technical institutes in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kharkiv, Vinnytsa, Cherkasy, Chernihiv.
The enthusiasm of the KPI professors, their care and thoughtfulness about students, the collaboration and free flow of ideas that was needed in truly remarkable scientific research – all that helped these famous teachers to raise the pleiad of talented engineers and to take great pride in their students. They inspired, supported and encouraged students to do great things.
Nowadays our University’s teaching staff, which is famous for its academic excellence and innovative research, supports the great spirit created by the famous scientists. Our faculty provided the world’s highest-quality university education that makes National Technical University of Ukraine “The KPI” the right place to study and to work.