...Thomasina asked Septimus what he thinks of God and free will, Septimus responded, “If everything from the furthest planet to the smallest atom of our brain acts according to Newton's law of motion, what becomes of free will?" (2884). Septimus raises the question of whether the laws of science can explain what free will. Free will is fundamental to human life, and some believe it is what dictates life itself. Tom Stoppard brings to light whether free will really exist or not, more specifically, he ponders the possibility of mathematics being able to predict our future. As Thomasina proposed to Septimus a theory of the future, stating, “If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were real, really good at algebra you could write the formula; and although nobody can be so clever to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could." (Page 2884). Although Thomasina recognized that no one as of now could create this formula for the future, it is possible. And if this formula for the future were to be made, is free will really just a set of calculated decisions and outcomes? With this statement, Thomasina recognizes that with mathematics, anything can be...
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...Four fundamental forces: Strong nuclear (strength: 10^38) (Range: less than 10^-15) -Force that holds protons and neutrons together in a nucleus of an atom Electromagnetic (strength: 10^36) (Range: infinity) -Force caused by electric charges Weak nuclear (strength: 10^25) (Range: less than 10^-18) -force responsible for interactions involving elementary particles such as protons and neutrons Gravitational (strength: 1) (Range: infinity) -force of attraction between all objects *All of them have an effect of attraction and repulsion except for gravitational which only has an effect of attraction. Other Forces Normal Force: force perpendicular to the surfaces of the objects in contact Friction: force between objects in contact and parallel to contact surfaces Tension: force exerted by string, ropes, fibers and cables *Friction is opposite of applied force, tension is on the same side as friction *gravity and normal force are opposite except on a hill Symbols Fg force of gravity FN normal force Ff friction FT tension FA appiled Dynamics: study of the causes of motion First law of motion/Law of Inertia If the net force acting on an object is zero, the object will maintain its state of rest or constant velocity -objects at rest remain at rest - objects in motion tend to remain in motion -if velocity of an object is constant, the net external force acting on it will also be zero *icy highway example ...
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...Motivation is a very fundamental aspect in the development of human beings. Life is always full of various ups and downs and when the worst happens, motivation is all what it takes to keep us going. It is a kind of force that usually drives human beings into action. We dream of success but without working on our visions, we will not achieve. We therefore need motivation on our daily lives to influence our behavior and the ability to fulfill our dreams. Motivation can be achieved through different methods. Each method has its own unique way of influencing out personal behaviors. Of course we have different methods of motivation since different individuals exhibit different personalities. Everyone is therefore influenced differently with each method. Let’s briefly check on the following effective methods of motivation: 1. Creating motivation through desire Perhaps you have ever noticed the incentive and ambition you had when you attempted to reach certain aim that you seriously wanted to achieve in your life. Trust me, this is the same approach you can use to develop your personal motivation and significantly improve it. The main point here is to visualize all the good things or benefits you will get from your hard work. It is this desire to achieve something that can effectively be used as a method of motivation. Try this, it really works! 2. Develop interest on your goals Having interest in doing something is a great incentive to achieve it. Just imagine of some subject...
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...Physics Of Field Laboratory Instructor: Prof. Pascia Pceit-17-101P Electromagnetic Induction Michael Faraday formulated that electromotive force (EMF) produced around a closed path is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic flux through any surface bounded by that path. In practice, this means that an electric current will be induced in any closed circuit when the magnetic flux through a surface bounded by the conductor changes. This applies whether the field itself changes in strength or the conductor is moved through it. In mathematical form, Faraday's law states that: where is the electromotive force ΦB is the magnetic flux. For the special case of a coil of wire, composed of N loops with the same area, the equation becomes A corollary of Faraday's Law, together with Ampère's law and Ohm's law is Lenz's law: The EMF induced in an electric circuit always acts in such a direction that the current it drives around the circuit opposes the change in magnetic flux which produces the EMF Electromagnetic induction is the production of an electric current across a conductor moving through a magnetic field. It underlies the operation of generators, transformers, induction motors, electric motors, synchronous motors, and solenoids.[1] Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of induction in 1831 though it may have been anticipated by the work of Francesco Zantedeschi in 1829.[2] Around 1830[3] to 1832[4]...
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...What I need to find out | How I found out the information. | Did I use it and was it useful? | Source. | Introduction to Cadbury’s chocolate | website | research | Cadbury’s worldhttp://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/http://uk.ask.com/question/who-are-cadburys-main-competitorshttp://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=784&q=http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/cadbury-schweppes/ethical-business-practices/ethics-at-work.html#axzz2k38WIHdL | Cadbury is one of the world’s best chocolate brands they aspire to become the world best chocolate brands. Cadbury’s purpose The purpose of Cadburys is to sell chocolate and to survive by making sure they are known as the best confectionary company out there by constantly improving their chocolate and making new products they also survive by making sure their brands reaches all around the world and everyone knows about them and to satisfy’s customer’s needs by making surveys so they know what people like. Cadbury Schweppes is committed to providing a range of high quality treats, refreshments and confectionery based oral care products which are marketed truthfully, labeled clearly and meets the highest safety standards. The sectors. Cadburys operate in all the sectors because they extract coco beans from a different country Ghana then they make the coco beans into the product they need then they manufacture it. Cadbury’s aims and objectives Cadburys main aims and objectives would be to be the world’s...
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...A statement that is very often used about marriage is ‘Marriages are made in heaven’. A marriage is a social union, or a legal contract (under some personal laws) between two individuals that establishes legal rights and obligations between them. It is principally an institution in which interpersonal relationships, including sexual and intimate relations between the spouses, are acknowledged and legalised. When two individuals decide to spend the rest of their lives together, they often legalise their communion by entering into marriage. In many countries, legal recognition is given only to marriages between opposite sex couples, banishing same sex marriages. Homosexuality is considered a taboo in many parts of the world even today. However,...
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...Make a reaction why we have to start the course in PAS with knowing our Country’s history and culture roots. The Republic of the Philippines is a constitutional democracy, with the President as head of state. The Philippine Constitution is the fundamental basis of the laws of the land. The country has had several Constitutions, but the current one was adopted through a nationwide plebiscite in 1987. It is supported by other laws, such as the Civil Code, the Labor Code, the Omnibus Investments Code, and the National Internal Revenue Code, as well as by rules and regulations passed by government bodies. The latter include rulings, letters or instructions, circulars, memoranda, administrative orders, judicial orders, and pronouncements, as well as laws adopted by local government within the scope of the Constitution. In PAS course, there are approaches taking within its purview all aspects of administrative activities. The goal is to find out and enunciate the principles or ideals underlying these activities. Administrative behavior is part of behavioral sciences and the study of public administration cannot be complete without the study of individual and collective human behavior in administrative situations. These approaches made more sense and had greater relevance than other approaches as it took into consideration the fact that political, social, economical and psychological environments have effect on human motivation and which ultimately has an effect on the work...
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...That history contains errors, will not come as news to a person who has reflected on the topic. The very first history, a Greek one, History of Herodotus, written around 450 BC, likely had quite a number of fictional details so as to effect its purpose.1 Those parts of our history which are suspected to be fiction are, at least, through research and comparison, salvageable. What, however, is possibly more disturbing than the realization that, in general and throughout, our history is wrong (a sub-topic which I shall treat to a greater extent further on, herein) is the realization that there are great gaps in it. We have failed to record and gather together the little human events which make up the fabric of history: it is little events, strung together and accumulated over time, which account for our place in history. Though it may have been, in certain of its parts, reconstructed incorrectly and small shards are missing here and there, history, by a well-read and descriptive author, like a Grecian urn, is a spectacle to behold; like man himself -- fascinating, seductive, intriguing, and spectacular. Maybe most are like me, I enjoy observing, at a safe distance, the follies and misfortunes2 of my fellow men. An author of history must adopt a method to gratify the natural curiosity that most of us have about the bloody events of times past. History, like all literature, must be written in a lively and descriptive manner. This is necessary, so to grip and hold the reader, in...
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...That history contains errors, will not come as news to a person who has reflected on the topic. The very first history, a Greek one, History of Herodotus, written around 450 BC, likely had quite a number of fictional details so as to effect its purpose.1 Those parts of our history which are suspected to be fiction are, at least, through research and comparison, salvageable. What, however, is possibly more disturbing than the realization that, in general and throughout, our history is wrong (a sub-topic which I shall treat to a greater extent further on, herein) is the realization that there are great gaps in it. We have failed to record and gather together the little human events which make up the fabric of history: it is little events, strung together and accumulated over time, which account for our place in history. Though it may have been, in certain of its parts, reconstructed incorrectly and small shards are missing here and there, history, by a well-read and descriptive author, like a Grecian urn, is a spectacle to behold; like man himself -- fascinating, seductive, intriguing, and spectacular. Maybe most are like me, I enjoy observing, at a safe distance, the follies and misfortunes2 of my fellow men. An author of history must adopt a method to gratify the natural curiosity that most of us have about the bloody events of times past. History, like all literature, must be written in a lively and descriptive manner. This is necessary, so to grip and hold the reader, in an...
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...mechanics, thermal fluctuations, and statistical physics Albert Einstein's first paper[88] submitted in 1900 to Annalen der Physik was on capillary attraction. It was published in 1901 with the title "Folgerungen aus den Kapillarität Erscheinungen," which translates as "Conclusions from the capillarity phenomena". Two papers he published in 1902–1903 (thermodynamics) attempted to interpret atomicphenomena from a statistical point of view. These papers were the foundation for the 1905 paper on Brownian motion, which showed that Brownian movement can be construed as firm evidence that molecules exist. His research in 1903 and 1904 was mainly concerned with the effect of finite atomic size on diffusion phenomena.[88] General principles He articulated the principle of relativity. This was understood by Hermann Minkowski to be a generalization of rotational invariance from space to space-time. Other principles postulated by Einstein and later vindicated are the principle of equivalence and the principle of adiabatic invariance of the quantum number. 2] Main article: History of special relativity Einstein's "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper" ("On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies") was received on 30 June 1905 and published 26 September of that same year. It reconciles Maxwell's equations for electricity and magnetism with the laws of mechanics, by introducing major changes to mechanics close to the speed of light. This later became known as Einstein's special theory of relativity...
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... 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. BIBLE AND HOMOSEXUALITY 1. Biblical View of Sexuality 2. Old Testament on Homosexuality 2a. Stories of Sodom and Gibeah 2b. Levitical Texts 3. New Testament on Homosexuality 3a. Paul’s Statements in Romans 3b. Other Pauline Texts II. BIOLOGY AND HOMOSEXUALITY III. LAW AND HOMOSEXUALITY IV. CHURCH AND THE HOMOSEXUAL CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY 2 INTRODUCTION On 2nd July 2009, in a landmark judgement, the Delhi High Court struck down the provision of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalised consensual sexual acts of adults in private, holding that it violated the fundamental right of life and liberty and the right to equality as guaranteed in the Constitution. Pronouncing the order in Naz Foundation (India) Trust v. Government of NCT, Delhi and Others, Writ Petition (Civil) No. 7455 of 2001, a division bench of Chief Justice A.P Shah and Justice S. Murlidhar said “We declare that Section 377 IPC, insofar it criminalizes consensual sexual acts of adults in private, is violative of Articles 21, 14 and 15 of the Constitution.” While gay-rights movements have welcomed and celebrated the judgement...
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...1. The term Zodiac refers to C) a group of constellations lying near the ecliptic. ----------- 2. You have just won 100 million dollars on that hit TV survival show ``Astronomy Midterm No. 1''. How much money is this? A) \$10$^8$ ----------- 3. In current scientific opinion, Stonehenge is considered to have been D) an astronomical observatory. ----------- 4. You have just won $10^4$ dollars on that hit TV survival show ``Astronomy Midterm No. 1''. How much money is this in real money? C) \$10,000 ----------- 9. Most Greek astronomers believed that the Earth is immobile because they did not observe E) parallaxes for the stars. ----------- 14. Sunspots were discovered by C) Galileo. ----------- 15. Aristarchus argues E) for a heliocentric universe. ----------- 16. The higher the frequency of light B) the shorter (smaller) its wavelength. ----------- 17. Aristarchus estimated the relative distances to the Sun and Moon by observing the A) angle between the half Moon and the Sun in the sky. ----------- 18. The smaller the wavelength of light A) the larger its frequency. ----------- 19. The difference in the lengths of shadows simultaneously cast by identical sticks placed vertically in the ground at two different points on a meridian indicates that D) the...
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...Daisy Dai Grade11 Class1 Physics Whether the Gravity is the product of the Electromagnetism I. Introduction Gravity and electromagnetism are both the fundamental forces in the world; they are unique in physics and thought of some connections between them by some scientists. However, according to the studies, gravity isn’t a product of electromagnetism because they are juxtaposed to each other in physics’ identifications. From the formula (G=mg) created by Newton, the gravity is related only to mass. And this leads concept of gravitational fields. But the electromagnetic force are definitely different from that one. It is related not to mass but to the electric charge（F=qvB), and this leads to the concept of electric field. Since the Earth exists the gravitational field, the electric field and the magnetic field which don’t have any affiliation with each other by observing the formulas, they will not have connection with each other. But for electric and magnetic force, the sources of magnetic fields are electrical currents, caused by moving electric charges or small dipoles associated with molecular and atomic structure. So, there is electromagnetic force that electromagnetism exists in the universe. However, these forces actually have connections with each other instead of non-connection relationship. In fact, gravity is not the subordinate relationship with electromagnetism but the similar ones. All magnetic...
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...introduction Homosexuality is sometimes also defined in terms of an attraction, preference, orientation, or identity. The term "orientation" is particularly favored by those who are promoting public acceptance of homosexuality.[2] Genetics and Claims of the immutability of homosexuality For more information please see: Homosexuality and Genetics A common argument is that an inclination to homosexuality is inborn and immutable. It is widely believed that the public will become more accepting of homosexuality if they are convinced that it is inborn and immutable. For example, neuroscientist and homosexual Simon Levay stated: "...people who think that gays and lesbians are born that way are also more likely to support gay rights."[3] Research into the issue of the origins of homosexuality suggests that adoptive brothers are more likely to both be homosexuals than the biological brothers, who share half their genes which suggests that homosexuality is not genetically caused. [4][5] This data prompted the journal Science to report "this . . . suggests that there is no genetic component, but rather an environmental component shared in families".[6][7] However, in regards topsychosocial and biological theories in regards to the origin of homosexuality, Columbia University psychiatryprofessors Drs. William Byrne and Bruce Parsons stated in 1994: "There is no evidence that at present to substantiate a biological theory. [T]he appeal of current biological explanations for sexual orientation...
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...Literature Literature is the artistic expression of thought, which is replete with feelings and imagination. It is expressed in such an untechnical form as to make it intelligible and give aesthetic pleasure and relief to the mind of the common man. According to Lord Morely: "Literature consists of all the books where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity and attraction of form." In other words, literature heightens our awareness of human life. It enables us to look at nature with new eyes. It interprets with charm of language the experiences and spiritual intuitions of man. Literature is one of the instruments, and one of the most powerful instruments, for forming character, for giving us, characters armed with reason, braced by knowledge, clothed with steadfastness and courage, and inspired by that public spirit and public virtue of which it has been well said that they are the brightest ornaments of the mind of man. Literature is great because of its universality. It is powerful enough to supersede the narrow interests of a class in favour of humanity as a whole. It does not deal with the specific society of a specific community, but with the society of man as a whole. For this reason, the literature that appealed to the people through the spoken word has a greater appeal than that which appeals through the written word which may not reach all men. The recited epics of Homer, the acted plays of Shakespeare, the chanted songs of Chandidas...
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