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    Physics: Bifilar Pendulum

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    Dimensional Analysis: Investigation on bifilar suspension Ho Yuk Him (Date of experimentation :20th and 29th October‚ 2010) This paper presents a study on the application of dimensional analysis on the formulation of an equation concerning the periodic time of a rod rotating at an angle about the vertical axis suspended by two strings at each end. We find that period is inversely related to distance between the strings parallel to each other and directly proportional to the both the square root of

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    a model for other institutions in a disciplinary society in which the transition into the age of modernity has caused institutions to be compelled to control the time of the individual. Foucault does this through four sections in which he explains the transformation in the usage of power as well as space. Foucault is trying to answer the question of how did the modern prison system alter the power relationship between individuals and the overall and discipline

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    FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: GENDER AND SEDUCTIONS OF ISLAMISM Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 2005 Janet Afary is associate professor in the departments of history and women’s studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution‚ 1906–1911‚ and president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2004–2006). Kevin B. Anderson is associate professor of political science and sociology at

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    Prison” seeks to identify the origins of Discipline systems and the effects of these processes on society. Foucault focuses on the role of power in establishing societal norms‚ and the consequences that arise when individuals deviate from those norms. Foucault critiques the enlightenment’s effect on society through an examination of the processes for correcting these deviations. Foucault focuses on prison systems primarily‚ but also extends his analysis to question the processes of hospitals.

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    was being shown to them‚ they saw movies as a permeation of reality – this led to the audience being drawn away from contemplation and promoted heightened sense of mind. In a way‚ this was a form of liberation for them. On the other hand‚ Michel Foucault believed that man had no real freedom. The thoughts they feel are their own‚ or the decisions they feel they make alone‚ are in fact imitations of the norms of society. From birth‚ people have been constantly under the watchful eyes of parents‚ teachers

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    imprisoning someone who committed a crime. I will examine ways that contemporary society is a disciplined society as Foucault described; and given my example‚ it will demonstrate our need for it and how disciplinary society can help contemporary

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    forces the inmate to observe his own actions as though he were being watched. This self-surveillance where the inmate “becomes a principle of their own subjection” (Foucault‚ 1977:203) means that the inmate plays the role of observer and observed (Foucault‚ 1977) by forcing the actions of an observed individual upon himself. By this Foucault believes he is more likely to comply with the rules of a prison alone as the inmate believes they are

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    the interminable agony of being tortured as a lab mouse. The best terror stories create suspense through the setting. Most of the times‚ the character does not know completely where he is or what enemy or problem he is facing. In "The Pit and the Pendulum"‚ the underground prison is dark; as a result‚ the character compares the place with hell or even his tomb. That is why at the beginning‚ during his dream-like state‚ he does not want to open his eyes and we do not know where he is either. The darkness

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    “The Pit and the Pendulum” Commentary Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”‚ is a short story of the struggled of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death‚ and placed in a dungeon. The narrator‚ who is the prisoner‚ realizes that the dungeon he is placed in is known as the Inquisition. He encounters death multiple times throughout his time in the dungeon. He nearly falls into a large pit‚ almost gets scythed by a pendulum‚ and gets pushed to the brink of the pit by burning walls‚ but merely

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    Ap Physics Pendulum Lab

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    I will be demonstrating the law in which connects the period of the pendulum‚ expressed as T‚ to the length of the string‚ expressed a L. The system the lab will be based on will include a pendulum with a weight of W suspended at a fixed point by the string with a variable length of L and an angle theta to be measured using a protractor. The variable T will be measured as the period of time needed for the weight of the pendulum to swing back and forth once. For part 1 of the lab‚ we will be measure

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