Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposure Problem Statement In September of 2001 General Motors (GM) was faced with a billion dollar exposure to the Canadian dollar. At the time‚ North America represented approximately three-quarters of GM’s total sales and this large exposure to the CAD could significantly affect GM’s financial results. GM had a passive strategy of hedging 50% of its exposure; this paper explores the impact of
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Rousselle Molina date submitted: 5/29/13 ELECTRIC FIELD MAPPING I. ABSTRACT: In the Electric Field Mapping‚ we used charged electrodes to create an electric field on a glass tray with a piece of linear graph paper attached to the bottom. We tested several simple electrode positions by moving the probes and drew equipotential lines based on the voltage difference. We then confirmed that the equipotential lines run perpendicular to electric field lines by looking at the experimental data
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produced? Have you ever noticed how your hair stands straight and stiff when you comb it vigorously on a dry‚ cold day? Or how difficult it is to remove dust particles from your comb? Your hair and the comb become charged by rubbing. This stationary electric charge is described as static electricity. Activity 1. Rub a plastic sheet with flannel and then hold the plastic sheet near Styrofoam bits. What do you observe? From the observations made‚ you can conclude that rubbing produces static electricity
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Drive Clean Drive electric Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! Dr. Paul Mac Cready ‚ Jr. The future of transportation is here‚ and it’s knocking at your door! Our day-to-day means of transportation is changing and the more municipalities‚ business leaders‚ utilities and end-users know about Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs)‚ the more prepared they will be to embrace the “vehicles of tomorrow”
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Mechanism Description of an electric guitar Introduction An electric guitar is a stringed musical instrument played with fingers or a plectrum (pick). It consists of a body‚ a neck and a headstock to which usually six steel strings are attached. The magnetic pickups transform the vibrations of the steel strings into audio signals that are driven through an amplifier. Thus‚ the amplifier is also an essential part of the electric guitar. It was the need of amplified sound
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The most obvious advantage of electric car batteries is that they don’t produce the pollution associated with internal combustion engines. According to the Electric Vehicle Association of Canada‚ or EVAC‚ even EVs recharged from coal-powered electric generators cut carbon emission roughly in half. EVs recharged from cleaner forms of electrical power generation‚ such as hydropower and nuclear plants‚ can reduce carbon emissions to less than one percent of those currently produced by internal combustion
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5561 - A World with Only Electric Vehicles Today our lives are thought to be in danger due to global warming. Global warming is defined as a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide‚ chlorofluorocarbons‚ and other pollutants. Thought to be a big contribution to global warming are the emissions that come from the exhaust of our cars. Electric vehicles do not have tailpipes that exhaust fumes to pollute so they are the logically
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The General in the Particular C. Wright Mills reflects his ideas of sociology as the studies of the behavior of individuals to make a conclusion if the issues that happened socially have an effect of the person’s life. Mills also claims that the only way to understand a person’s behavior is through examining the social content of the behavior. Therefore‚ it creates a quality of mind that he calls “sociological imagination”. By using this concept‚ it will show either the social‚ historical‚ cultural
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Electric cars are seen as the future of human life. They provide an oppurtunity of being clean and eco-friendly. Electric car motors are magnificent and figuring out how they work is a mystery. Electric cars have also been around for a while since almost two decades ago. Electric cars are proven to be better for the environment. Electric cars are a prime example of how electricity has changed over the years. First‚ electric cars are amazing‚ but what is more amazing is the motor that makes one
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SELECTION OF A PRESSURE VESSEL MANUFACTURER On August 1‚ the engineering department hand-carried a purchase requisition to Jack Toole‚ supply manager‚ Oceanics‚ Inc. The requisition covered the purchase of one pressure vessel to Oceanics’ specifications as outlined in the requisition. Immediately‚ Jack went to work. He prepared a request for quotations asking twenty major pressure vessel manufacturers to have their proposals in his hands no later than Wednesday‚ August 31. The response to Jack’s
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