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    Ballistic pendulum designed experiment Aim: to investigate how the mass of the projectile affects distance on the motion of a wooden block it strikes Hypothesis: the heavier the projectile the further the distance will be covered by the wooden block Variables: variables Identification Manipulation Independent Mass of projectile The four different masses will be used in different combinations Dependent distance Measured using tape measure Controlled 1. Height of retort stand 2. Release angle

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    DISCIPLINE DISCIPLINE AD PUNISH- MICHEAL FOUCAULT The chapter on discipline begins with the seventeenth century image of the soldier. A soldier bore certain natural signs of strength and courage and marks of his pride and honor. These were characteristics which were already inherent in a soldier. By the late eighteenth century‚ a soldier became someone or rather something that can be made‚ like a required machine which can be constructed. The Classical Age discovered the body as a target and

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    the swing of a pendulum will be the star of this chapter. First‚ I will describe how the weight of the bob in the swing of a pendulum affects the amount of swings that a pendulum can swing in a certain amount of time. If the bob is light‚ like a penny or a paper clip‚ the pendulum can swing a large amount of times because the pendulum does not have a lot of weight to carry at the end of it. If the bob at the end of the string is heavy‚ like a half-dollar or a quarter‚ the pendulum cannot swing as

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    Prostitution A Marxist & Foucauldian Analysis Prostitution is a largely debated‚ controversial subject. This is due to different moral and ethical views‚ religious perspectives and legal matters. Some say it is a job like any other‚ however the lack of tax payment and regular check-ups denies this. Others say it is ethically wrong to pay in order to obtain sex‚ because it is essentially the sale of one’s body. Legally speaking‚ it is only illegal to buy sex‚ but perfectly okay to sell it.

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    Inverted Pendulum Analysis‚ Design and Implementation IIEE Visionaries Document Version 1.0 Reference: The work included in this document has been carried out in the Instrumentation and Control Lab at the Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering‚ Karachi‚ Pakistan. CONTENTS 4 W HAT ’S INSIDE T HIS REPORT (CONTENTS IN DETAIL) CONTENTS IN DETAIL THE AUTHORS ü ü 4 … … 3 6 ABOUT THE AUTHOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR PREFACE INTRODUCTION ü ü … … 9 12 INTRODUCTION

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    Theorists Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault present their views on the power/knowledge affiliation in works such as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil and Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. While reading the pair‚ it becomes almost impossible not to relate or apply their visions onto the contemporary society. One may even argue that they resonate with current systems of government. Eichmann in Jerusalem‚ albeit a collection of articles for the New Yorker‚ was published

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    EXPERIMENT 2 Measurement of g: Use of a simple pendulum OBJECTIVE: To measure the acceleration due to gravity using a simple pendulum. Textbook reference: pp10-15 INTRODUCTION: Many things in nature wiggle in a periodic fashion. That is‚ they vibrate. One such example is a simple pendulum. If we suspend a mass at the end of a piece of string‚ we have a simple pendulum. Here‚ the to and fro motion represents a periodic motion used in times past to control the motion of grandfather and cuckoo

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    bleak time where people were accused of being unfaithful to the Christian faith and death was not merely the loss of life but an endless endeavor toward insanity through torture. Edgar Allan Poe uses this instance and condition in "The Pit and the Pendulum." Throughout the story the question of the narrator’s reliability is brought up through his references to madness‚ his suicide attempts‚ and his references to his own death. Through the story‚ the reader sees many events showing the narrator’s

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    It seems that ideas about "regionalism" have emerged at the beginning of swing architecture pendulum‚ where the anti-establishment institution took over. In 1940‚ as modernity (or international style) began to take up the dominant rhetoric in architecture‚ Mumford published a widely shared view of the region in the 1980s‚ when the anti-establishment institution (postmodernism) began to take over the new institution: Regional through Lefaivre & Tzonis as well as Frampton. The "transformation" of the

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    Aim What is the effect of differing pendulum length on its period? Hypothesis If the length of the pendulum is decreased‚ the period will decrease. Variables Independent: The length of the pendulum (cm) Dependent: The period of the pendulum (s) Controlled: The weight of the swinging mass The angle for maximum displacement Materials: Pendulum (can be as simple as a mass tied to string attached to a piece of cardboard) Retort stand and clamp Stopwatch Ruler Protractor Masking tape

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