...today’s world, car collisions are one of the major causes on deaths in the United States. Thousands of people die every year from car collisions due to driver error, some of which are: drinking and driving, texting while driving, and not wearing a safety belt. The Alive at 25 course is meant to teach young adults the hazards that come with unsafe driving, in the hopes that they will become better and safer drivers so that they will not end up in the emergency room or the morgue due to a car collision. In this essay, I will cover some of the main topics we discussed in the Alive at 25 course and I will outline what I have learned from this material. One of the first topics we discussed in class was some of the statistics that have been developed in regards to car collisions within specific age groups. The Alive at 25 course focuses on the 15-24 year old age group, this group is known as Group 1, as people in this age group are the youngest amongst drivers in the United States. Motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of death of 15-24 year olds with almost 11,000 people dying every year. We also discussed some percentages of drivers who are considered Group 1 (age 15-25), drivers in this age group consist of: 14% of licensed drivers, 27% of all people involved in collisions, 21% of people who die from collisions with other vehicles, 34% of people who die from collisions with fixed objects, 28% of people who die from non-collision events (such as a car flipping), and...
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...with his wife for eternity. The movie begins with the encounter of the two soul mates, both who were spending their time on their sailboats, one of which had a red sail symbolizing seduction, love, sexuality, but also sacrifice and danger, the boat was owned by Annabella Sciorra who is played by Annie Nielsen , who happens to be Chris’ wife later on the movie. They strongly fall in love with each other and they had 2 children, Ian and Marie , played by Josh Paddock and Jessica Brooks Grant, both who died after being involved in a collision and the tragic event destroys Annabella and Chris’ life by leaving an empty space in their heart. The quietness of their house and the uncertainty of their future made Anabella have a mental breakdown and after going through a rough path, his husband (who is a doctor), dies in an car collision accident; while he was trying to save someone who was trapped inside their car after being flipped over by impact of his car and the other vehicles colliding. After this other tragedy she sees suicide as her only escape from that nightmare and without knowing the “rules” of heaven she kills herself condemning her soul to an eternity in hell and without any chance of seeing paradise and her family. Chris Nielsen is a perseverant and secure...
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...world collision the first thing we think is crash. In scientific words collision occurs when more than two objects collide against each other as a result, the born of many physics forces like momentum, impulse, inertia and friction. But what is the relationship between collision and a car crash? What we may not notice is that physics is all around us in our life and every life event involves its. The path we take every morning in our way to school, the traveling of the car is a very good example. Studies prove and affirm that the survivors of severe car crashes, survive thanks to the way of protection they used and how is the car designed with specific and special safety precautions. That was our main point we wanted to achieve while making our car for the project. Our design was basically a truck like a jeep. It was all made up of carboard, wood and other small details that beenfit the truck to make it heavier, more rough and hard. It was also covered with newspaper, as a result, giving the car a very hard texture. The passengers seat, was made up all of soft materials like cotton, pads and sponges. The egg was attached with two rubber strings, simulating a safety seat bealt and helping as a support for the egg. All this details and spefcific design had a main goal and something specific to achieve: preventing the egg from breaking and keep it secure in its seat. The demostration of collision and all its forces acting against in this experiment consisted on giving car some...
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...people: if they are not disciplined enough they could miss evidence or could arrest the wrong person because they couldn’t be bothered to work properly.(Codes of Professionalism) They need discipline so that they can report to emergencies properly and on time, like at a robbery: if they don’t get there on time they could miss the suspect or if they go there not paying attention someone could get hurt, whether that be hostages or people in the street. Fire and Rescue – Fire and rescue services like the Fire brigade need discipline because if they didn’t, the chance of people being harmed and the chance of accidents rises. They need discipline because they need to be able to get to accidents quickly, like getting to a fire or getting to a collision: if they are not disciplined, they could be on call and an accident could happen and they would just casually take their time getting there, people could die or be harmed. They need to be disciplined because they need to follow the rules ‘by the book’ because the rules have been made to save lives: if they have no discipline...
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...A collision occurs when two objects collide together creating an external force that is either zero or smaller. The goals of this lab were to find out what happens to the linear momentum and kinetic energy of different objects when they collide. Also, what happens to the momentum and kinetic energy in a completely inelastic collision and perfectly elastic collision? For completely inelastic collision the linear momentum should be conserved, but the kinetic energy should not be conserved. On the other hand, the linear momentum and the kinetic energy should both be conserved during perfectly elastic collision. Kf / Ko should equal one for perfectly elastic collision and, it should equal the mass of 1 divided by the sum of the mass 1 and 2 for...
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...drivers at any time across the country. Texting while driving causes car collisions, distracts drivers, and puts lives in danger. To start, texting while driving causes many car collisions because the driver may not have their attention on the road. Each day when on the road I survey a countless amount of people texting while they drive. Just one second can change the driver's life permanently. Drivers are twenty- three times more likely to crash while texting, I have read about so many fatal collisions from texting it blows my mind to think people still text while driving. Texting while driving causes thousands and thousands of car collisions and nearly eleven teen deaths every day. For example, Kayla Preuss a sixteen year old girl died...
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...Introduction When an object collides with another, momentum is conserved, but kinetic energy is not. This experiment was designed to find if the coefficient of restitution, e, changes for high-velocity collisions. At low velocities colliding objects will tend to maintain their shape, size and elasticity, so e is likely to be constant over a range. However, at high velocities colliding objects may change their physical properties and therefore a change (probably a reduction) in e may be observed. A small reduction in e was observed, but this was probably accounted for by air resistance and not a change in the material. Theory When a collision occurs, total momentum is conserved, but kinetic energy is not. When a ball, for example, bounces off the floor, it loses a little momentum to the Earth so the total momentum of the system is unchanged. Its KE, given by the formula [pic], assuming it was dropped from rest, will reduce and it will bounce to a height lower than its original height, as shown in diagram 1: Diagram 1: ‘H’ is drop height and ‘h’ is bounce height. The coefficient of restitution is the ratio of the difference in the initial speed and the final speed: (i) is the general formula for e, (ii) is when distances are measured on a drop (one object is stationary), and (iii) is when velocities are measured and one of the objects is stationary. Equation (ii) will be used here. Method Apparatus: Rubber ball, camera, floor...
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...years. The objective of this paper is to find out why car crashes continue to be the leading cause of deaths and life threatening injuries. Road traffic crashes cause great economic loss to victims, sufferers and their families. These losses range from the cost of treatment, including rehabilitation, to the continued quality of life of the victims in which some cannot work or can work with limited job duties. The desired goal is to find effective prevention methods to circumventthese unnecessary motor vehicle related injuries from occurring. Car Accidents World Health Organization reports every year the lives of almost 1.24 million people that are cut short as a result of road traffic crashes. As a result, it has been proven that there has been a variation in causes of death relating to road traffic crashes. Driving under the influence, distracted drivers, and aggressive driving have been shown as a cause of road traffic crashes that lead to death and life threatening injuries. According to the traffic safety administration the age range that is more likely to result in these offenses are young adults between the ages 15-44 years and male drivers as being more likely to be involved in road traffic crashes than female drivers. This literature review considers whether prevention of thesedeath causing car crashes and life threatening injuries will serve as a solution by responding to theses following questions: 1. Why are car accidents the leading cause of death and life threatening...
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...Introductory Physics I Elementary Mechanics by Robert G. Brown Duke University Physics Department Durham, NC 27708-0305 rgb@phy.duke.edu Copyright Notice Copyright Robert G. Brown 1993, 2007, 2013 Notice This physics textbook is designed to support my personal teaching activities at Duke University, in particular teaching its Physics 141/142, 151/152, or 161/162 series (Introductory Physics for life science majors, engineers, or potential physics majors, respectively). It is freely available in its entirety in a downloadable PDF form or to be read online at: http://www.phy.duke.edu/∼rgb/Class/intro physics 1.php It is also available in an inexpensive (really!) print version via Lulu press here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/product-21186588.html where readers/users can voluntarily help support or reward the author by purchasing either this paper copy or one of the even more inexpensive electronic copies. By making the book available in these various media at a cost ranging from free to cheap, I enable the text can be used by students all over the world where each student can pay (or not) according to their means. Nevertheless, I am hoping that students who truly find this work useful will purchase a copy through Lulu or a bookseller (when the latter option becomes available), if only to help subsidize me while I continue to write inexpensive textbooks in physics or other subjects. This textbook is organized for ease of presentation and ease of learning. In particular, they are...
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...Finding Love in the Wreckage: Estimating Spousal Altruism with Data on Fatal Car Accidents Ilya Beylin, Anup Malani, and David Abrams1 Abstract. This paper estimates the degree of altruism among spouses by examining how often the driver of a car sacrifices himself or herself in order to save a spouse. Holding constant the magnitude of a collision, a driver can maneuver the car to distribute the risk from a collision between the driver and a passenger. We quantify spousal altruism by the degree to which drivers riding with their spouse redistribute the risk from a fatal accident to themselves – as measured by ex post mortality – as compared to drivers not traveling with their spouse. We find that drivers with their spouses are at least 37% more likely to sacrifice themselves. This implies that they value the lives of their spouses at least 37% more than the lives of other individuals. A driver’s position in a car provides him with exclusive control over the pedals and steering wheel. At the time of an impending accident, this control enables him to adjust the total amount of risk facing the car’s occupants and how that risk is distributed. In other words, his maneuvers will have allocative and distributive effects on the occupants’ risk. The driver’s distributive choices reveal his relative preferences for himself over his passengers. The manifestation of injuries amongst the occupants allows observation of those relative preferences. A theory of spousal altruism – indeed any...
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...South Asia Disaster Report 2007 Chapter 13 Other Man made Disasters Introduction Man made disasters cover a wide range of events created largely due to accidents, negligence or sometimes even by human design, which result in huge loss of lives and property every year in South Asia. These include road, rail, river, marine and aviation accidents, oil spill, building and bridge collapse, bomb blast, industrial and chemical accidents etc. These also include the threats of nuclear, biological and chemical disasters. At present there is no organized system for collecting data on man made disasters. EM-DAT does collect data on some technological disasters, but these do not cover the complete range of information on man made disasters. As per EM-DAT sources a total of only 21 technological disasters had affected the countries of South Asia killing 569 people, but road accidents alone had reportedly killed more than 135,000 people which is several times more than the total number of persons killed due to natural disasters. Table 12.1 Technological disasters in South Asia in 2007 (Appendix-VI). Country Number of incidents Number of Persons Killed Afghanistan 1 40 Bangladesh India Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Total 1 13 3 2 1 21 41 362 61 65 569 Source: EM-DAT, The CRED International Disaster Database As per estimate by World Health Organisation (WHO) by 2020 the road crash injuries will be the third highest threat to public health...
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...DRIVING TIPS TEEN DRIVING TIPS DRIVING TIPS FOR PARENTS TRAFFIC TICKET TIPS BLOG Type here to search... DRIVESAFELY. NET HOME ONLINE TRAFFIC SCHOOLS ONLINE TRAFFIC SCHOOL REVIEWS EASIEST ONLINE TRAFFIC SCHOOLS FINDING THE BEST ONLINE TRAFFIC SCHOOL ONLINE TRAFFIC SCHOOLS BY STATE ONLINE TRAFFIC SCHOOL TEST ANSWERS ONLINE DRIVERS ED ONLINE DRIVERS ED REVIEWS ONLINE ADULT DRIVERS ED REVIEWS HOMESCHOOL DRIVERS ED COURSES DRIVING TIPS SAFE DRIVING TIPS DEFENSIVE DRIVING POOR WEATHER DRIVING TIPS TEEN DRIVING TIPS DRIVING TIPS FOR PARENTS TRAFFIC TICKET TIPS TIPS FOR AVOIDING TICKETS TIPS FOR WHEN YOU’RE PULLED OVER HOW TO FIGHT A TRAFFIC TICKET OBTAINING YOUR DRIVING RECORD RADAR DETECTOR REVIEWS BLOG CAR DONATION CHARITIES CAR INSURANCE DRIVER EDUCATION DRIVING LAWS DRIVING RECORDS DRIVING TIPS FOR TEENS & PARENTS RADAR DETECTOR REVIEWS SAFE DRIVING TIPS TRAFFIC SCHOOL TRAFFIC TICKET TIPS MOST RECENT ARTICLES Type here to search... iDriveSafely Answers 2 months ago See iDriveSafely Current Pricing Specials Here Below are a list of correct iDriveSafely answers to many of the questions they ask in their online traffic school program. Just use the “find” feature in your browser (hit ctrl + F)...
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...roads and around rush hours 10. Cite the violator I would like to go over each of these and give what they mean. An officer's responsibility to conduct a motor vehicle collision investigation begins at the time he or she is directed to the collision scene. It is at that precise moment that the officer should begin to obtain as much information as it is available from the radio operator, such as type of collision, location, extent of injuries, traffic condition, etc1.then the officer should at the set speed for the department procedures of running code to a scene proceed to and secure the scene. If medical attention is needed, the officer will call it in, but assuming that there is no such need, the officer’s first job is to. This is the 1st of the 10 things we as police should do. the patrol vehicle is the first available tool to use in traffic control, other devices such as plastic traffic cones and flares can also be used. They help to channel other cars away from the scene. when the first responding officer has evaluated the injuries involved and rendered medical assistance if necessary, they should begin divert cars from the scene then he should try to get the cars out of traffic as soon as possible. But he should take a few quick photos of the crash site with them untouched. Then move the cars making sure he sketch where they are for his reports later The officer will also take pictures of damage to the...
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...they have introduced collision avoidance systems which automatically apply the brakes in order to prevent impacts or lessen speed in impacts have been added. These improvements do help but crashes still occur and the other vehicles are caught up in traffic jams due to blocked lanes or motorists slowing to see what happened, and sometimes additional collisions occur in those traffic jams; only making traffic conditions worse. All of these systems fail to address the core issue, the drivers which control the vehicles. Research would suggest that all drivers should be required to take knowledge and road skills tests as part of license renewal, because it will take too long for all vehicles to have safety systems, the current license renewal procedures target the wrong driving population, and do not remove unsafe drivers from the road. The NHTSA has required that all vehicles less than 10,000 pounds have a backup camera as standard equipment by 2018 (Barth, 2014), and 20 automotive manufactures and the United States government agreed to make automated braking systems standard equipment in all cars by the year 2022 (Chappell, 2016). These improvements certainly will help increase road safety, and reduce vehicle collision rates, however the IHS states that the average age of cars on US roads is 11.4 years (IHS, 2014). At that rate, it will be at least 10 years before the majority of all cars on the road to have both of these features. The number of collisions due to driver error accounted...
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...Problem Statement The current network does not meet the needs of the school. The current network also has a significant impact on production. The network will need to be re-engineered to address the key stake holders concerns. Interviewing the stakeholders resulted in the following areas of concern: 1. The network cannot support multiple users doing the same task. Collisions are occurring on a regular basis and the band is insufficient. 2. No central management for the 50 networked printers and there queues. 3. Current bandwidth is 10 Mbps 4. HVAC technician would like wireless access points 5. The 23 new classrooms are not on the network 6. New wing has slow connections to the mail server 7. The IT Director would like to to integrate VoIP into the current data network 8. Backbone miss-cabled Solution The correction of the limited bandwidth is the first priority. Re-cabling the current network with Category 6 UTP 1000Base F Ethernet cabling because it increases maximum data rate, from 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps. Ethernet will also allow for the use of Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) which can be assigned on the workstation NIC. This bandwidth increase will resolve the HVAC Technicians access issue, congestion issues for the classrooms, allows for VoIP integration and provides for future expansion. Replacing the twisted-pair on the backbone with Fiber 1000Based-F will give continued Gigabit throughput and eliminate the remote mail server...
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