文档介绍：1. Warm-up Questions
2. Albert Einstein
3. The Yo-Yo
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1 Warm-up Questions
1. What is Einstein’s greatest contribution to the mankind?
2. What do you know about the life of Einstein?
3. Who is the Chinese scientist you admire most? Why?
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2 The Introduction of Albert Einstein
German-born American Physicist and Nobel Laureate
1879~1955
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. ”
— Albert Einstein
Einstein’s Chronology
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Date
Event
March 14, 1879
1903
1905
Born in Ulm, Germany, the elder child of a businessman and a musical mother.
Married Mileva Maric, his classmate at the polytechnic. They had two sons but eventually divorced.
Published three ground-breaking papers on the motion of particles, the nature of light, and the relationship between energy and inertia.
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1914-1933
1916
1921
1930
Published his “Autobiographical Notes.”
Published his General Theory of Relativity.
Director of Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute in Berlin.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for physics.
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October 1939
November 18,1952
April 18, 1955
Declined an offer to e head of state of Israel.
Died in hospital in Princeton.
Wrote to Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, on the possibility of manufacturing a nuclear bomb and the need to preempt the Nazis.
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The Yo-Yo is a simple toy consisting of a grooved double disk with a string about the center. The player holds the end of the string which unwinds itself as the disk is dropped. Then by a slight jerk on the string, the player causes it to rewind itself, and to reel up back to the hand. The toy is said to have originated in the Philippines. Since 1930 it has e a popular toy
3 The Yo-Yo
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