...In this project, we had to make a car that had at least three wheels and could only be powered by a balloon. The first step was to create a design, I had started by creating a design but, rethought the design throughout the days we were allowed to work on the car in the class. My final car was inspired by other students but, I changed the car to have three wheels instead of four. I then used CD’s as the wheels and taped the balloon to multiple straws to keep it in place. Then, two sticks taped together as an axle to allow the straws and CD’s to move freely but connected to the car. Then I joined the parts of the car and made it into a triangle shape. When thinking about where to put the balloon I realized I needed to add height so the balloon would not be able to touch the wheels and make it stop moving. So I taped two popsicle sticks to the two connecting sticks, then to connect the popsicle sticks together I added a third and taped the balloon with a straw inside to the top popsicle stick. My car did travel and move when some others throughout the classes did not. The three runs distance in order was One...
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...Page » Science Project 1 In: Science Project 1 Project 1 Write an essay of 1500 words, giving credible references on the use of physics in your daily activities. You need to mention 5 or more activities where physics is used. Remember to follow the APA style and give references. Physics is used in so many ways that most people do not even realize that they are using it. Even a stay at home mom uses physics more than one would think. Daily activities that many people do include physics without thinking about it, such as driving a car, using a headrest in a car, walking and running, flushing the toilet, and washing and drying clothes. Driving a car has many different aspects of physics involved, but today only acceleration, speed, and velocity will be discussed. People talk in terms of physics everyday without even knowing that is what they are discussing. For example, “speed” limit, how quickly a car can “accelerate,” and when they add a direction, they are actually talking about the velocity of a vehicle because velocity has a magnitude and direction, not just magnitude. According to Barry Parker in Issac Newton School of Driving, “you are accelerating and decelerating most of the time when you take a trip through the busy streets of a city, either by stepping on the gas, braking, or turning the steering wheel.” Basically, if someone gets in the driver seat of a car and drives, that person is changing the acceleration, speed, and velocity of the car that is being...
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...http://cactus.eas.asu.edu/partha/Columns/04-16-AccidentInvention.htm Innovation through Accident Audrey was born in October 2000. Audrey was conceived with a lot of fanfare, much ado and of blue blood. She was well planned and conceived with high hopes. She had everything going for her—looks, money, fame, fortune, power, hype, high expectations and a perfect incubation. A scant six month later, Audrey died. Her parents wanted it to be a quiet affair, but it was not. The death of Audrey sent shock waves through the community. How can such a tragedy happen? In case you did not get to know or love Audrey, she was not human. She was a much-hyped breed of gadget called the Internet Appliance. A sleek looking thingamajig with a touch sensitive screen that wanted to adorn your kitchen counter. It is basically a stunted computer. It can surf the web, do basic Email, get stock quotes, check up on the weather, and some limited word processing all for a lot of money ($500 to get started, $22 per month henceforth). Alex was going on a vacation, to take time off from his job of growing bacterial cultures in little Petri dishes. He was studying the effects of mucus on Staph cultures in a somewhat grungy laboratory in London. He forgot to wash up his last batch before he went off, and when he came back two weeks later, he saw an amazing sight. A mold was all over the dish, but all the bacteria were dead. To cut a long story short, Alex, or rather Dr. Alexander Fleming, found...
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... LETTERHEAD August 12, 2006 Mr.Kevin J. Hanson, Director Newton Hills State Park Canton, South Dakota 57146 Dear Mr. Hanson: Recently I noticed a letter in the editorial section of the Argus Leader in which the writer expressed concern over the present condition and problems relating to Newton Hills State Park, near Canton. A week later I read your reply to that letter, and I was very pleased to find that plans were being developed to improve park conditions. Having visited the park many times myself, I have become aware of the many design problems the park now holds. Participation in outdoor recreation and related activities is growing tremendously across the country. Park managers and supervisors are finding their parks unable to stand the greatly increased use. Roads developed for a few Sunday visitors are almost totally inadequate for the masses of people who converge on parks on warm, sunny weekends and hills erode after large numbers of people trample the vegetation. Moreover, recent events such as the antique car show and the annual folk festival brought even more people into your park, putting an additional strain on the park's resources. However, these problems can be solved and more like them can be prevented. Proposal I propose that Sara Jen Forest Services, Inc. study and investigate the problems relating to the physical functionalism of Newton Hills State Park. Upon completing the investigation, we shall submit a report to you...
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...Boston, on the East, to Brighton and Newton, on the West. However, there is very little transportation North-South transportation, connecting North Allston to the rest of Allston, Downtown Boston and Brookline. Furthermore, there are a lack of support for other modes of transportation other than cars. Bike lanes in the area are either nonexistent or unsafe. Furthermore, many large streets have intersections that are unsafe for pedestrians. It is for this reason residents were excited when Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Mass DOT) announced the Allston...
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...BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TRENDS The Next Generation of Performance Management Updated 2/16/2010 Attivio® 246 Walnut Street Newton, MA 02460 o +1.857.226.5040 | f +1.857.226.5072 | e info@attivio.com www.attivio.com BI Trends: The Next Generation of Performance Management Every year, technology research firm Gartner surveys 1,500 CIOs. As has been the case for several years, the firm’s 2010 survey1 revealed that BI applications are among the top technology focus areas for CIOs. And business process improvement is the top business priority for IT, followed immediately by reducing costs and improving the use of information and analytics. According to Bob Kaplan and David Norton, the creators of the Balanced Scorecard (the most commonly used performance management system2), “breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance.” Kaplan and Norton define a management system as the “integrated set of processes and tools that a company uses to develop its strategy, translate it into operational actions, and monitor and improve the effectiveness of both” and point out that “the failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations is pervasive…with various studies published in the past 25 years indicating that 60% to 80% of companies are fall short of the success predicted from their strategies.”3 So why are CIOs spending so much time and energy on BI? These technologies are the platform...
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...and/or use that reasoning to determine whether or not to install the part(s) that would make the Ford Pinto safer. Our decision would be to do what is morally right and avoid doing what is morally wrong, regardless of the consequences. True enough Ford was not obligated by government regulation or any law, to disclose the potential hazards of the Ford Pinto however; at the least they should have presented the option of purchasing the part to make the care safer - an option we would have made available to the customer. It is apparent Ford use the Utilitarian Ethical approach to come to their decision – choosing to do what produced the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people; a subcompact car that cost $2,000 and weighing no more than 2,000 pounds (Ford & Newton, 2008, p. 296), sold to 11 million customers as opposed to the only 180 people who lost their lives! Valuing a human life at $200,000 against a part that if individually purchased cost $11, Ford felt that it was less expensive to settle fatality claims at $200,000 per life – so they thought, until jury’s started awarding multi-million settlements – so much for their cost-benefit analysis. When a person comes to a conclusion on a decision, many times there are influences from outside sources that impact the choices made. In this case it is the lack of caring about human life, death and suffering. If you fall into that category, society looks upon you with the utmost contempt. People have generally...
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...Project 1 Write an essay of 1500 words, giving credible references on the use of physics in your daily activities. You need to mention 5 or more activities where physics is used. Remember to follow the APA style and give references. Physics is used in so many ways that most people do not even realize that they are using it. Even a stay at home mom uses physics more than one would think. Daily activities that many people do include physics without thinking about it, such as driving a car, using a headrest in a car, walking and running, flushing the toilet, and washing and drying clothes. Driving a car has many different aspects of physics involved, but today only acceleration, speed, and velocity will be discussed. People talk in terms of physics everyday without even knowing that is what they are discussing. For example, “speed” limit, how quickly a car can “accelerate,” and when they add a direction, they are actually talking about the velocity of a vehicle because velocity has a magnitude and direction, not just magnitude. According to Barry Parker in Issac Newton School of Driving, “you are accelerating and decelerating most of the time when you take a trip through the busy streets of a city, either by stepping on the gas, braking, or turning the steering wheel.” Basically, if someone gets in the driver seat of a car and drives, that person is changing the acceleration, speed, and velocity of the car that is being driven. A speed is just the scalar, magnitude with no...
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...Which was the first firm to use the term “management consultant” Booz Allen Hamilton A business strategy for carefully analyzing operations to improve overall efficiency, lower costs and increase quality in order to lower a company's environmental impact. Name the strategy and the company which created it. green sigma,ibm Which tool talks about business growth opportunities in terms of product and market? Ansoff Matrix It was introduced as an experiment covering a 40km radius with the support of the UNESCO, Philips and the US Govt. in 1959. The facility was extended to Bombay in 1972, followed by Srinagar , Calcutta and Madras . It was delinked from its mother organization in 1976 and given the status of an independent corporation. the company offered Initial Public Offerings in 1982 and was raking in Rs. 10 billion in ad revenue by 1987. What company are we talking about Doordarshan This merger between the two companies was called “wedding in heaven”. Name the two companies. daimler and Chrysler A big consulting powerhouse published a report on the banking industry during the financial crises. Name the firm and the title of the report. pwc and banking banana skins 2010 Name the parent company who owns this product. This company had 5 products in the same market but decided to phase out and retain only this product because it believed that the market segment of the 5 products is blurred and cannibalizing each other’s market share. Dell It was a major...
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...Project Management PM3110 Victor Nyankah 10/24/14 Tacoma Narrow Bridge Executive Summary The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in 1940 at the cost of $6.4 million funded mostly by the federal government’s Public Works Administration. The purpose of the brigde was to connect Seattle and Tacoma with the Puget Sound Navy at Bremerton, Washington. It was said to be the third largest of its kind. Though it was a long bridge, it was very narrow because it only had one way traffic from each direction. It had a center span of 2800 feet and a 1000 foot approaches on each side. The bridge took nineteen months to be constructed and fell apart barely four months after its inauguration. It is however important to note that even before the inauguration, the bridge had started showing signs of incompetence and exhibiting strange characteristics which shouldn’t have gone unnoticed. The bridge started galloping and swaying and hence got the nick name, the “Galloping Gertile”. In order to under the dynamics of suspension bridges, we need to understand the physics of bridges as propagated by Newton also known as Newton’s Laws. All bridges are subject to Newton's three laws of motion. Newton's First Law states that an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an Unequal force. For a bridge, this means that unless all of the forces on a bridge remain balanced, one or more components of the bridge will move. Left uncorrected, this instability can lead to a partial or...
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...Gun control is a complex and divisive issue in America. People who are in favor of gun control foresee no violence whatsoever if guns were banned. But is that a realistic thought? I will carefully analyze details discussing how an actual gun ban would result. Would a gun ban make the world safer to live in? Would it make the world more dangerous? Prompted by horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama tasked his administration with creating concrete proposals to reduce gun violence that has plagued the country. The President includes both legislative proposals that would need to be acted on by Congress and executive actions he can perform on his own. Many of the executive actions involve the president directing agencies to do a better job of sharing information. Proposed congressional actions include, but are not limited to: (1) Requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, including those by private sellers that currently are exempt; (2) Reinstating and strengthening the ban on assault weapons that was in place from 1994 to 2004; (3) Limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; (4) Financing programs to train more police officers, first responders and school officials on how to respond to active armed attacks; and (5) Providing financing to expand mental health programs for young people. A national survey of police officers show overwhelming support for the Second Amendment and the country’s strong tradition of gun ownership, while opposing...
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...important because research work is based on the foundation of trust. Very few researches provide completely new information that was unknown in the past. Most of them build up on existing information and thus drawing conclusions from other peoples work hence the foundation of trust. I am going to look in to detail of the scientific methodology by considering two scenarios which are actually problems that we are going to solve through the concept of scientific method. Scenario 1 You wake up early one morning to go to work or take your kids to school and you cannot find your car keys Let us examine the steps that make up the methodology in solving scenario 1 problem 1. Make an observation There are actually so many things that we happen to observe and take them for granted. A lot of the information and knowledge that we know now was as a result of people who saw beyond (Harris, 2008). An example is Sir Isaac Newton who is famous for his law of gravity when an apple fell on him. It is thus through observing that we can ask questions that we seek answers for. What...
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...scientists our solar system emerged more than 4600 million years ago. Since then we could observe a different evolution of its planets and moons. Space companies from all over the world have set scientific goals to find out how our earth works, and whether life on Mars ever existed or maybe is still active. Nowadays this is one of the most important questions, not only because mankind is preparing human exploration of the Red Planet. After the Big Bang, 15 billion years ago, the universe was extremely hot. As we know today, matter did not exist at that time. The process that led protons and electrons to form into stars, galaxies and eventually living creatures, still remains largely unknown. Space telescopes such as Hubble and ESA’s XMM-Newton and Integral are constantly studying the universe behind the visible light, observing and monitoring objects with extreme density, gravity and temperature. As we know, satellites are unique in their ability to constantly monitor the earth and provide a lot of information about our everchanging planet. From space, we monitor many natural but also man-made events. Whether floods, forest-fires, rising sea levels or oil slicks. In the modern world satellites and their abilities are inevitable. Earth exploring satellites let scientists use the latest...
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...|Spaghetti Bridge | Abstract For this assignment our task was to build as a group a spaghetti bridge with the objective of carrying the most weight as possible using only spaghetti and hot glue, meeting the specifications. The bridges will be loaded until they fall. After testing to destruction, the bridges loading capacity was 14.4kg, with an initial mas of 0.840kg. This gave a weight to strength ratio of 17.1 putting the group at 4th/8th position in class. From this it was learned the bridge held 14.4kg which is 140N therefore one Truss held 70N. These calculations helped us understand how our bridge coped with the forces and helped us answer the question of what caused our bridge to fail and where our bridge failed? Contents Abstract ii Introduction 1 Background 2 Analysis 3 Design 5 Methodology 5 Calculations 6 Newton’s laws: 6 Forces on the bridge 6 Stability: 6 Truss analysis 6 Structural stability of Final Bridge: 7 Testing: 7 Simulation: 7 Results: 8 Bridge failure analysis: 8 Spaghetti beams: 8 Conclusion 9 Limitations 10 Recommendations 11 List of References 12 Appendix 14 Spaghetti Bridge Activity Report 14 Group productivity and progress 18 Further Calculations 19 Introduction For this assignment the aim is to research and construct a spaghetti bridge in a group consisting of six members with the objective...
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...innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line. The term inertia derives from the Latin work “iner” which translates to “idle”. It was Isaac Newton who was the first person to define inertia. This was then presented as his first law of motion. Although Galileo formally introduced the concept of inertia. And as everyone knows Newton’s inspiration came from an apple that had fallen. He asked questions like why did it fall? What determined the speed at which it fell? The reason why the apple fell was because it had a force acted upon it. This force was gravity. This force is absent in space so a body will continue its path unless it hits into something. When an object is stopped abruptly the higher the speed the body was moving at the bigger the force impacted on the body that it hit. This is why it would hurt when you catch a sliothar and your hand is completely stagnant. Some day to day examples of inertia are: • Being pushed back into your seat when an airplane takes off • Being jerked forward when your car suddenly stops • The “tablecloth trick” yanking a table cloth while the dishes remain in place. Electromagnetic spectrum The electromagnetic spectrum is a way of organising all electromagnetic waves according to frequency and wavelength. There are many frequencies such as Radio, Micro...
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