Phys2A: Practice problems for the 1st midterm test Fall 2013 0.674 to the proper number of significant figures? 0.74 1. What is Answer: 0.91 2. A 8.7 hour trip is made at an average speed of 73.0 km/h. If the first third of the trip (chronologically) was driven at 96.5 km/h‚ what was the average speed for the rest of the journey? Answer: 61 km/h 3. A car travels 95 km to the north at 70.0 km/h‚ then turns around and travels 21.9 km at 80.0 km/h. What is the difference
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cause of the plague and how to contain it. The Black Death was a plague that very unfamiliar to the victims. As a result‚ they had different beliefs on the cause of the plague; however‚ they all shared one common belief: the disease was airborne. According to the “Ordinances Against the Spread of Plague‚ Pistoia‚ 1348‚” “no citizen of Pistoia...shall dare or presume to go to Pisa or Lucca; and no one shall come to Pistoia from those places; penalty 500 pence.” Additionally‚ the “Plague Regulations
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The Executive and Judicial branch didn’t exist in the Articles of Confederation‚ which was a problem because Congress couldn’t enforce or interpret the law. However‚ this caused many problems; one such problem was the incident called Shay’s Rebellion. Shay’s Rebellion happened because many of the people that fought in the revolutionary war didn’t receive any sort of compensation as they were promised. To add insult to injury‚ the farmers experienced high state taxes‚ which consequently initiated
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the 1900s immigration became a very big part of U.S history. While immigrants were coming they all came for one reason‚ because there were hardships in the places they came from. Also when they arrived there were many hardships these immigrants faced. First of all‚ many immigrants came to the U.S because they had many hardships in their native countries. One of the reasons that many immigrants came was because there were “hard times and epidemic in Italy‚” this is shone in document one almost one
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Bacon also demanded for war against the Native Americans for he wished to gain some more land for new plantations in which farmers could work off of. Berkeley had refused to react to the claims of the people about how the Indians were committing murders and thefts on the frontier‚ he was making a good profit from trading with the Indians and was not ready for that to be ended by a war. Berkley’s refusal sparked Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 which resulted in the burning of Jamestown
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials Hysteria in 1692? Malik1 Sana Malik Mrs. Zachary Social Studies 12/7/14 The Salem Witch Trials in 1692‚ was a series of indescribable events‚ which was powered by paranoia and fear.The Salem Witch Trials were the examinations‚ trials‚ and executions of alleged “Witches” beginning in late February 1692 and ending in late October 1692. Many guiltless individuals were subject to witchcraft‚ that resulted in 19 men and women hung to death
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At the onset of the American Revolution‚ the sociology and agenda of the patriotic elite seemed to mirror that of the people. Many influential figures in the colonies‚ as well as most of the common people‚ had had enough of what they viewed as British tyrannical rule encroaching on their lifestyles. Visionaries such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a self-governed country founded on a basis of equality and liberty. Of course‚ these fundamental rights weren’t intended for everyone
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“It has been claimed that subsequent English historians mentioned a tribe of North Carolina Indians who spoke English fluently‚ practiced Christianity‚ and called themselves Croatan Indians. Additionally‚ there were between 20 and 30 English surnames from the Roanoke settlers were found in the Croatan tribe‚ suggesting that integration between the two peoples had happened.” Although the Croatan tribe had many things in common with the settlers‚ They didn’t always get along with each other in
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evenly among South American countries like Honduras‚ Panama‚ and Guatemala. Along with them they bring many different problems such as increased gang violence in the United States‚ and various drug trafficking complications. Drugs are a huge problem; many underground tunnels have been found along the border. Another problem with undocumented immigrants is that they don’t pay taxes. According to fairus.org‚ “Illegal immigrants cost U.S taxpayers
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What were the strengths of British Conservatism that it could recover from so quickly from Labour’s post-war landslide to dominate British politics after 1951? In this essay I aim to explain some of the strengths that British conservatism had that helped it recover quickly from labours post-war landslide to dominate British politics after 1951. In 1945 it was apparent that the Conservatives would not recover from their defeat post-war. I shall argue that one of the reasons why the conservatives
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