Sciences: Physics

          The prevailing interest between the members of our group are courses that have very much to do with physics and mathematics, some examples of the courses of interest are: Aeronautic Science and Astrophysics, although both have similar áreas of interest, they differ a lot when it comes to practice and theory.

          -  Starting with practice, there is Aeronautic Science, since it's main objective is the application of it's studies when flying a real airplane, even if theory is present in it's subjects list, it has an objective that is practical. Upon the graduation of this particular course, students gain what is called a Commercial Pilot License, which allows them to pilot commercial planes.

          - On the other hand we have Astrophysics, a course with it's main objective focused on research and study, in the case of this course knowledge isn't a "means to an end", but an end in and of itself. It has practic, observation is vital if you want to work in any observatory (Hence the name), but that's as practical as it can get. While the course ist't particularly popular, the workplace availability is pretty high (as long as you are in the right country).

      
          When it comes to the best universities in Brazil, the options are scarce, due to unpopularity or investiment costs, but some well known ones for the Aeronautic Sciences are: PUCRS, Fumec (Belo Horizonte) and PUC (Goiânia). As for Astrophysics there is UFRGS and UFRJ.



                           PUCRS

                                                                           UFRGS

 

 

      As for the best universities worldwide we chose the 2 most well known universities for Aeronautical Science and Astrophysics: MIAT (Michigan Institute of Aviation and Technology) and CIT (Califórnia Institute of Technology).

 

 








                             MIAT














               
                                                                                                                     CIT


       Some of the best professionals known to the world or to people dedicated to the particular studies:

   - Santos Dumont ("Father of Aviantion").
   - Wright Brothers ("Fathers of Aviation").
   - Neil deGrasse Tyson (Famous Astrophyscicist, also the host of "Cosmos").
   - Carl Segan ( Astrobiologist, astronomer and writer of over 600 scientific publications).


     Carl Segan was the host of an older version of Cosmos, his name is well known to the scientific community, since his achievements include the publication of over 600 articles about Science and his directorship of the planetary studies lab on Cornell University.
     Segan has also written various Science fiction books, and non fictional scientific books, he has recieved the Pulitzer Award for his book Dragons of Eden.
      On top of all that he was one of the first scientists to study the greenhouse effect
 on a planetary scale.

Vinícius, Henrique and Fábio