vrijdag 15 september 2017

Mooie opgave ruimtemeetkunde



Construeer een vlak V welke gaat door het punt P (dat op BT ligt), zo dat de doorsnede van V met piramide T.ABCD een parallellogram is.

vrijdag 8 september 2017

Brain Damage - Pink Floyd

The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path

The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

zondag 3 september 2017

World view

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Somewhat like Eratosthenes, the Iranian polymath Al-Biruni (973-1048) was able to estimate the radius of the earth using just a few measurements and some clear thinking. If h is a mountain with a known height and the distance from the mountaintop A to the horizon C can be established accurately, then angle α is the same as angle AOC at the earth’s center and we have everything we need to calculate leg OC of right triangle AOC, which is the radius of the earth.

Biruni carried this out using a tall mountain near Nandana in present-day Pakistan. He estimated the earth’s radius at 6,339.9 km, which is only 16.8 km less than the current value of 6,356.7 km. This accuracy would not be obtained in the West until the 16th century.

donderdag 31 augustus 2017

Here's why your attitude is more important than your intelligence

People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.

Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms. 

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zaterdag 19 augustus 2017

Aanvulling



"Zo rond 1420 had de Iraanse wiskundige al-Kashi \(\pi\) tot op 16 decimalen uitgerekend en de berekening van de sinus van 1 graad door middel van de numerieke oplossing van een derdegraads vergelijking."
eindverslag geschiedenis van de wiskunde

Samenvatting

Tips voor het nieuwe schooljaar:
Willem van Ravenstein | augustus 2017