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    Pendulum Raiyan Hassan SPH3U September 20‚ 2011 Introduction A pendulum is a device which consists of a mass attached to a string from a frictionless pivot which allows it to swing back and forth. In this experiment‚ the time it takes for a pendulum to go through a period is going to be measured. The time it takes for a pendulum to go through one period can depend on factors such as the length of the string‚ mass‚ or the degree in which the pendulum is released from (amplitude). In this

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    In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” Poe‚ the author of this story has made it to where there is a few elements that add suspense to the story. Isolation would be a key element in the story that I would say adds suspense to the story it is one of the key one’s because as he explains what’s happening in this dark room that there is no light up until the part where he is under the pendulum‚ anyway he uses suspense with the isolation by always changing what was going on along with a little

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    behavior.” Foucault depicts the panopticon as a way of exercising power over a mass; this idea can also be taken from the works of John Berger‚ Susan Bordo‚ and Laura Kipnis. Foucault begins by introducing the plague and the actions of society that resulted when the epidemic struck. The plague brought order. Houses were routinely checked‚ quarantined‚ registered‚ etc. Those who were infected were separated from the rest of society in order to establish an uncontaminated community. Foucault states‚

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    Foucault believed that power is never in any one person’s hands‚ it does not show itself in any obvious manner but rather as something that works its way into our imaginations and serves to constrain how we act. For example in the setting of a workplace the power does not pass from the top down; instead it circulates through their organizational practices. Such practices act like a grid‚ provoking and inciting certain courses of action and denying others. Foucault considers this as no straightforward

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    Goffman and Foucault: Institutionalisation and Identity Social welfare institutions threaten people’s identity as they are built with the purpose of gathering ‘abnormal’ people from society and institutionalising them in order to create a better or just society (Dreyfus and Rabinow‚ 1982). Goffman and Foucault both discuss how institutions such as mental hospitals‚ prisons and even schools take away peoples identity by forcing them to be subordinated to a hierarchy of power; whereby they must follow

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    HSC PHYSICS 2011 HSC PHYSICS 2011 PENDULUM MOTION BY NATHAN LOCKE Image taken from http://www.practicalphysics.org/go/Experiment_480.html Pendulum Motion Aim: To determine the rate of acceleration due to gravity by using a pendulum. Background Information: Equation One: T=2πlg Where T = the period of the pendulum (s). This is the time taken for the pendulum to return to its starting position. l = length of the pendulum g = the rate of acceleration due to gravity (ms-2) * In

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    (Print) ISSN 0976 – 6359 (Online) Volume 3‚ Issue 3‚ Septmebr - December (2012)‚ pp. 214-228 © IAEME: www.iaeme.com/ijmet.html Journal Impact Factor (2012): 3.8071 (Calculated by GISI) www.jifactor.com IJMET ©IAEME DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PENDULUM TYPE DYNAMIC VIBRATION ABSORBER FOR A SDOF VIBRATING SYSTEM SUBJECTED TO BASE EXCITATION Irshad M. Momin1‚ Dr. Ranjit G. Todkar2 1 Assistant Professor‚ Department of Textile Engineering‚ DKTE’s Textile & Engineering Institute‚ Ichalkaranji‚ Maharashtra

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    Introduction: Aim: To find the relationship between the length of a simple pendulum and the period of oscillation. Research question: How does the string length of the pendulum affect the period of oscillation? Prediction: The longer the string‚ the longer it will take to make one complete oscillation. Variables: Independent variable: Length (L). Dependent variable: Period of oscillation (T). Controlled variable: Mass of the plasticine. Tools & Materials: Stopwatch. Ruler. String. Plasticine

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    Foucault’s Pendulum In 1851‚ a French physicist named Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault suspended an iron ball with a radius of approximately 0.5 feet from the ceiling of the Pantheon in Paris with a wire that was over 200 feet long. The ball was used as a pendulum‚ and it could swing more than 12 feet back and forth. Beneath the ball he placed a circular ring with sand on top of it. Attached to the bottom of the ball was a pin‚ which scraped away the sand in its path each time the ball went by. To get

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    Symbolism’s of Hell in “The Pit and the Pendulum” In the short story‚ Poe uses the pit to symbolize hell. In the beginning‚ the soldier describes going into the pit as “a mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades” (Poe 268). The descent reminds the reader of hell in that it is beneath the surface of the ground. Also‚ when the soldier describes the mad rushing‚ it can represent hell because nothing in hell is supposed to be orderly or calm. In the Bible‚ hell is described as a chaotic

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