There are many exercise machines in today’s world there but one of the most popular seems to be the stair climber machine. If a stair climber machine is going to be designed the information needed to be collected would vary widely. One would need to compute its angle of incline. Other things needed are the maximum and minimum velocities‚ the distance‚ vertical height of the machine‚ and a stopwatch to count the amount of time a person uses it. To calculate the weight of a person in Newtons a scale
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relying on it for essential needs. The Machine Stops is a short story by E.M. Forster that warns us of a possibility of a world that is dominated by a machine. The story is set in the distant future when humans are forced out of the surface of the Earth and depend on a machine housed underneath the surface for their every need; food‚ communication‚ housing etc. In return‚ this dependence has allowed mankind to be controlled by the machine. Finally‚ the machine becomes the law or the religion for most
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thereof‚ is a consistent motif found within both utopian and dystopian novels and movies. These stories provide a wide array of opinions about the role of machines in life. Certain authors‚ such as Bellamy‚ would argue advancements and use of machinery is necessary to push society to a better‚ brighter future. However‚ reading Forster’s The Machine Stops makes one question the influence of machinery in our lives. Technology‚ like most things in life‚ can be considered both enslaving and liberating
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Hampton Machine Tool Company 1. Hampton Machine Tool Company was founded in 1915 and was based out of the St. Louis area. It was a manufacturing firm serving the automobile and aircraft industries. Due to the strong automobile market and defense spending for the Vietnam war‚ the company was seeing record production and profits through the 60’s and early 70’s. After that‚ the Arab oil embargo‚ the increase in the price of Gasoline and the then recession was taking its toll on the Company’s financials
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pleasure principle In Freudian psychology‚ the pleasure principle is the psychoanalytic concept describing people seeking pleasure and avoiding suffering (pain) in order to satisfy their biological and psychological needs.[1] Specifically‚ pleasure principle is a driven force of id. [2] Furthermore‚ the counterpart concept‚ the reality principle‚ describes people choosing to defer gratification of a desire when circumstantial reality disallows its immediate gratification. In infancy and early
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Distillation is a commonly used method for purifying liquids and separating mixtures of liquids into their individual components. Familiar examples include the distillation of crude fermentation broths into alcoholic spirits such as gin and vodka‚ and the fractionation of crude oil into useful products such as gasoline and heating oil. In the organic lab‚ distillation is used for purifying solvents and liquid reaction products. To understand distillation‚ first consider what happens upon heating
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Science fiction made its way in ruling our lives. Technology is all around us. Year by year‚ centuries over centuries‚ the dependency towards technology is exacerbating. This situation however‚ have been predicted by a story titled “The Machine Stops” that was written last century‚ and is predicting how humanity will be driven away by technology advancement. This situation is also pictured in the movie “The Transcendence”‚ that was released in the 21th Century‚ and how humanity is being used and
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Java Virtual Machine‚ An inside story!! Java Virtual Machine‚ or JVM as its name suggest is a “virtual” computer that resides in the “real” computer as a software process. JVM gives Java the flexibility of platform independence. Let us see first how exactly Java program is created‚ compiled and executed. Java code is written in .java file. This code contains one or more Java language attributes like Classes‚ Methods‚ Variable‚ Objects etc. Javac is used to compile this code and to generate .class
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POT TENDING MACHINE PTM is the crucial equipment of large anode pre-baking workshop. It is used in the environment of high temperature‚ large current‚ strong magnetic field and HF gas. It can perform the following procedures ANODE CHANGE: Anode in the pots is changed at an interval of every 27 days since daily 1.5 cm of the anode gets consumed. A carbon block is usually 55 cm high of which only 40 cm can be used up. The main reason behind the anode consumption is the following electrolytic
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the corporation purchased 10‚00‚000 of its fully paid shares at Rs 12 per share. On 20th January 2009 the management of company decided to retire the treasury stock. Show the journal entries to record the transactions. 5. Sirisha Inc acquired a machine on lease for four years in 2004 with a rental of Rs 40‚000 p.a. In 2009 the lease was renewed for 6 more years. The life of the asset is 10 years. The Company charges depreciation on straight line method. If prevailing interest rate in the market
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