{"id":1204,"date":"2017-12-13T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.moemaka.net\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2017-12-21T05:05:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T22:35:32","slug":"tales-of-scientific-discovery-by-dr-khin-maung-win-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/2017\/12\/tales-of-scientific-discovery-by-dr-khin-maung-win-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"TALES OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY by Dr.Khin Maung Win (Maths)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>MATHEMATICS 8<\/p>\n<p>TALES OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-J5zlXspBeb8\/WiTqvPYu4pI\/AAAAAAAAF00\/MK1rip7_i3YBP4IDMb7idlTV-pHpTUDYQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/20171203_191638.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-J5zlXspBeb8\/WiTqvPYu4pI\/AAAAAAAAF00\/MK1rip7_i3YBP4IDMb7idlTV-pHpTUDYQCLcBGAs\/s320\/20171203_191638.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the Great Pyramid<\/p>\n<p>On one of his trips to Egypt, Thales was asked if he could find the height of the great pyramid.He set a stick in the ground and said that at the time when the length of the stick&#8217;s shadow is equal to the the length of the stick above the ground , then the length of the pyramid&#8217;s shadow will be equal to its height.The story is based on a very sound mathematical theory, namely the theory of similar triangles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iBSlkWrzYr8\/WikyhA8YmNI\/AAAAAAAAF10\/cixVIkIJHMkow1rcT8MxRu0jKyr_sVmnwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/index.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iBSlkWrzYr8\/WikyhA8YmNI\/AAAAAAAAF10\/cixVIkIJHMkow1rcT8MxRu0jKyr_sVmnwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/index.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>pictures of Thales<\/p>\n<p>Although theory behind the story is a hundred percent sound, I cannot imagine how the great pyramid could cast a shadow as lengthy as its height and how the length of the shadow could be measured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATHEMATICS 8 TALES OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY the Great Pyramid On one of his trips to Egypt, Thales was asked if he could find the height of the great pyramid.He set a stick in the ground and said that at the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/2017\/12\/tales-of-scientific-discovery-by-dr-khin-maung-win-maths\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-various","tag-dr-khin-maung-win-math"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171203_191638.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RDLm-jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}