it is 490 miles, nine hours of driving. That is an average speed of 54.4 miles per hour for nine hours non-stop. That is on flat, straight land. Between Portland and Chico, there are two mountain ranges to cross with an elevation of six to seven thousand feet. If a semi is loaded heavy, traveling speeds up the inclines can get down to 25 to 30 mph. There goes the average traveling speed needed to reach destination within that nine hours. Time needed would be 11 hours of driving for the semi
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cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet 12. The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol [JFrater is planning to move there in the near future] 13. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air 14. 60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor 15. Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur 16. The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs
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Name: ________________________________________ Period: ____________ Date: _____________ 2D motion Worksheets Section 1 (2D Motion Non-Projectiles) 1. Find the westward component of a resultant vector 85.42 unit, 23º W of N. 2. What is the east component of a vector 12.3 m 10.0 º N of E? 3. Calculate the N component of a resultant 32.5 m/s, 35.0 º E of N. 4. You move 26m at an angle of 40.0º W of S. (a) How far south of your starting point are you
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I wrote this report immediately after the incident took place. I was leaving the Big Bear area around lunchtime on Tuesday April 2nd, I was in my Hybrid Prius with the cruise control set at 40mph. as I came around a blind corner I noticed CHP on the right side of the road facing away from me (Towards downhill) and also had a car going up the hill close to the same time we both simultaneously passed the officer. I was then pulled over by the officer about a minute later, we had a brief conversation
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Answer 1 a. We have to make a decision, how much space should we lease and for how long. Constraint is the minimum space required. The objective of this function is to minimize b. Decision Variables: Let Xij = the space leased in month (i) for the period of (j) months, for i = 1, 2, …, 5 and j = 1, …, 6. Objective Function: Minimize Z = 65(X11 + X21 + X31 + X41 + X51) + (100X12 + X22 + X32 + X42) + 135(X13 + X23 + X33) +160(X14 + X24) + 190X15 Constraints: X11 + X12 + X13 +
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THE RIDE OF A LIFETIME Last year, when I was still living in India something terrible happened. In India everybody in high school has a motorcycle, in the US if a teenage driver gets pulled over by a cop for speeding twenty miles per hour above the speed limit or driving with out license might end up in jail. In India there are no speed limits in cities. If a teenager gets caught by a cop speeding or driving with out license, he can get off by buying a cop a coffee or giving him $10. For me a motorcycle
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The 4-Hour Workweek "It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge." —JACK CANFIELD, cocreator of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, 100+ million copies sold "Stunning and amazing. From mini-retirements to outsourcing your life, it's all here. Whether you're a wage slave or a Fortune 500 CEO, this book will change your life!" —PHIL TOWN, New York Times bestselling author of Rule #/ "The 4-Hour Workweek
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Ecuador Roadtrip Introduction Travelling experience Body Ecuador around the world The “Ruta del Spondylus” Food, adventure, night life Conclusion Learning about my culture Personal experience. For many people the word “travelling” can have many meanings. Some people would consider that If you don’t get in a plane then you’re not really travelling, or that if you don’t go shopping in the place you are visiting then you’re not really travelling either. However
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60-minute hour. Assign the tasks shown in the accompanying precedence diagram (times are in minutes) to workstations using the following rules: 1. In order of most following tasks. Tiebreaker: greatest positional weight. 2. In order of greatest positional weight. 3. What is the efficiency? * A manager wants to assign tasks to workstations as efficiently as possible, and achieve an hourly output of 4 units. The department uses a working time of 56 minutes per hour. Assign the
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Darpa Challenge When creating a vehicle such as the one mentioned in this challenge, a lot of thought and consideration has to be accounted for. First the vehicle has to be able to travel at least 175 miles in 10 hours, the first thing that should be noted is the gas mileage. There are no gas station in the dessert so it has to have a fuel efficient way of traveling. The next obstacle established in the challenge is the terrain the higher-quality graded dirt with winding rocky-mountain passes and
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