MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS 1 Torricelli’s barometer used mercury. Pascal duplicated it using French wine of density 984 kg m-3. Determine the height of the wine column for normal atmospheric pressure. 2 A vertical off-shore structure is built to withstand a maximum stress of 109 Pa. Is the structure suitable for putting up on top of an oil well in the ocean? Take the depth of the ocean to be roughly 3 km‚ and ignore ocean currents. 3 A hydraulic automobile lift is designed to lift cars with
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American composer Leroy Anderson was an early childhood musical prodigy. With his parents help‚ Leroy learned piano‚ and later music composition‚ and became famous around the world for his works. In his time‚ he was most famed for Blue Tango‚ but today is most famous for his Christmas carol “Sleigh Ride.” Leroy Anderson started music at a very young age‚ with his mother Anna‚ a church organist‚ teaching him piano “as soon as his feet could reach the petals.” By the age of twelve‚ Leroy had composed
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Marian Anderson was a diplomat and singer. Marian was a singer she performed on the Constitution Hall. She was a diplomat she represented the United States government. Marian Anderson broke the color line of African American being able to perform without being rejected because of their race. Marian Anderson was born February 27‚ 1897 in Philadelphia‚. Anderson grew up in (NEGRO QUARTER‚ 2015)‚ in a single rented room with her parents and her two sisters. Marian mother’s name was Annie Delilah Rucker
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2013/2014 Assignment 1 (10 marks) Answer ALL the questions. 1. Discuss briefly fluid mosaic model for membrane structure. (6 marks) Answer: The lipids and most of the protein in the plasma membrane are free to bob about‚ sliding from one location in the membrane to another. Because lipids and proteins move about laterally within the membrane‚ the membrane is a fluid mosaic of lipids and proteins. The membrane fluid is since the composition of any location on the membrane can change. In the same
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Regarding the incident with John Anderson and is intentional giving of confidential customer information to a direct competitor for monetary gain. It is of my opinion that Mr. Anderson has clearly broken several lines in the Code of Ethics for the company. Additionally‚ Mr. Anderson could place the company at risk for being sued by our customers whose information has been given away to our competitor. The lines that Mr. Anderson had broken are as follows: ‘...protection of all personal information
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own research. At first‚ it was very broad because I wasn’t sure which country I should focus in. I was indecisive between a country in South America or the U.S. My goal was to choose my top three topics and that’s what I did. I came across Marian Anderson when searching for a person who took a stance in the U.S. What captivated me were the impacts she made in history through her performances. Once I had a person‚ I needed to make it more concise. The last step to choosing my topic was choosing an
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Fluid Catalytic Cracking Fluid catalytic cracking* (FCC) is the most important conversion process used in petroleum refineries. It is widely used to convert the high-boiling hydrocarbonfractions of petroleum crude oils into more valuable [1][2][3] gasoline‚ olefinic gases and other products. . Cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons for conversion of heavy fractions into lighter fractions was originally done by thermal cracking which has been almost completely replaced by catalytic cracking because
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joints‚ which means that they have a cavity in the joints that contains synovial fluid. Joints are not just made of bone‚ because if they were‚ friction would keep them from moving smoothly. The body uses cartilage and the synovial fluid to reduce friction in joints. Osteoarthritis happens when cartilage wears away over time and exposes bone to bone and increases friction‚ which is very painful. Synovial fluid is a fluid-like material that is present in many of the joints of the body. It serves the
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EN 1029 Laboratory Laboratory FM Declaration: In submitting this report‚ I hereby declare that‚ except where I have made clear and full reference to the work of others‚ this submission‚ and all the material (e.g. text‚ pictures‚ diagrams) contained in it‚ is my own work‚ has not previously been submitted for assessment‚ and I have not knowingly allowed it to be copied by another student. In the case of group projects‚ the contribution of group members has been appropriately quantified. I understand
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 21: 1105–1121 (2000) DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: WHAT ARE THEY? KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT* and JEFFREY A. MARTIN Department of Management Science and Engineering‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and‚ more generally‚ the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development‚ strategic decision making‚ and
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