Work Questions If it takes a horizontal force of 300 N to push a stalled automobile along a level road at constant speed‚ how much work must you do to push this automobile a distance of 5.0 m? W=FΔd F= 300 N Δd=5 m W=(300)(5) W=1500 J In an overhead lift‚ a champion weightlifter raises 254 kg from the floor to a height of 1.98 m. How much work does he do? W=FΔd=Eg Eg=mgΔh m=254 kg Δh=1.98 m Eg=(254)(9.8)(1.98) Eg=49528.62 J W=49528.62 J A child drags a 20-kg box across a lawn for 10 m and along
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The San Marco bowl is a Byzantine vessel made of purple and red glass embellished with bright polychrome and enamel paint. It is seventeen centimeters high and deep‚ and 33 centimeters wide. The bowl became the property of the Treasury of San Marco after the Fourth Crusade from the Venetian booty of Constantinople and is one of the most prized glass objects of the Byzantine period (The MET). Although despite its significance to Byzantine fine art‚ the bowl’s origins‚ significance‚ and date of creation
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december 1935. Dear diary‚ i lost count of how many days this wind of dust took over us. In march presidant FDR made pa sign somethin but a month later he died from dust nemona since he wudn listen to ma wen she kept tellin him “Moses Jonathan Beauregard get yer ass back in here before that storm from the devil eats ya!” doc had to stay wid us til the wind was soft enough for him to run his chubby self back into his 1930 blackhawk that had dust in the back seats. he told us pa had a lot of dust
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Does Thinking Take Too Much Time? In discussions of human thinking‚ a controversial issue has been whether thinking takes too much time and we as humans would rather go with what we are told to do or what others around us are doing. On the one hand‚ some argue that thinking takes too much time. From this perspective‚ people are becoming lazy and do not want to think for themselves‚ so it is easier to just agree with what others have said. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that humans do
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STUDY The study of profits is important not only because of the information it provides about the health of the economy in any given year‚ but also because profits are a key determinant of growth and employment in the medium-term. Changes in profitability are an important contributor to economic progress via the influence profits have on the investment and savings decisions of companies. This is because a rise in profits improves the cash flow position of companies and offers greater flexibility
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Money Does Not Buy Happiness For a long time money and happiness has been compared and contrasted‚ but recently there has been more of a push to find a better understanding and correlation between the two. The author of True Wealth‚ Juliet B. Schor‚ suggests that this debate started around the 1970’s‚ although‚ the basic idea of consumerism is been around for virtually forever or for ever long goods have been made in large quantities. But does having more stuff really make you happier? Is someone
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STUDY OF PROFITABILITY OF A LOGISTICS COMPANY USING ECONOMETRICS TOOLS Executive summary This study examines the impact of three factors‚ namely Sales‚ Fixed assets and Interest paid on the profitability of a logistics company. Econometric tool of multiple linear regression model was used for analyzing the impact of above factors on profitability of a major logistics company GATI Limited. Based on the financial data of last 10 years 2000-2009 the regression analysis has revealed that profitability
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G12008 Objective: This study has multiple goals:- 1. To find out if Tata Steel does enjoy a competitive advantage vis-à-vis other players in the Steel industry in India. 2. To ascertain the source of this competitive advantage. 3. Find out if this competitive advantage is sustainable. Industry Overview India today is one of the topmost producers of steel in the world. With the industry attributes like low cost manpower and abundance of iron ore and coal reserves India today is a highly competitive
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Leilani Turner HCA-240 8/11/2013 Professor Moiz Determining Financial Viability Finances and accounting are very similar and work together in a financial organization yet they are different in many ways. This essay is an overview between the differences between the two and how they operate together to determine financial viability. Accounting basically is the way finances are recorded by an organization or entity‚ to show profit and losses in a given period which is usually over a year’s
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000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment spreadsheet provides
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