Wood char depths are one of many fire indicators that fire investigators utilize for determining the area of origin and cause of a fire. It was formally believed that the deeper the char the longer the fire had burned but this has since been proven to be false. Rapid fire spread is common place due to the synthetic materials used in modern furnishings found in most homes. Most firefighters can expect to encounter flashover or post-flashover conditions at the time of extinguishment because of modern
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(June 17‚2013) References: Masters‚ B. (2009‚ October). Robert W. Wood: The Scientist who Played with Optics. Retrieved from http://www.osaopn.org/ Home/articles/volume_20/issue_10/features/Robert_w_wood_ the_scientist_who_played_with_opti/#.Ub1kA2Qayc0 Anonymous. (2013‚ March 10). Robert W. Wood. Retrived from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Wood Robert William Woods was born in May 2‚ 1868 in Concord‚ Massachusetts. He was an American physicist
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Tyler Costello Health Essay You can balance your natural desire to pursue sexual fulfillment while being responsible in many ways. When you are having sex‚ always use a condom so you can prevent disease transmission and pregnancy. Some diseases that can be spread when you don’t use a condom are aids/HIV‚ gonorrhea‚ syphilis etc. If you don’t want to get pregnant or get your partner pregnant just use a condom‚ it is a very easy thing to do. Also another way to prevent it is for the female to
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interesting and funny so at the end you can say “ha sucks doesn’t it”. Ulrich and Georg have grown up hating each other and wouldn’t mind killing one another. They show this from a young age‚ “as boys they had thirsted for one another’s blood”. In the woods when each other meet‚ a storm strikes and knocks a tree onto both of them. While under this tree they sort things out and become friends. Both characters are waiting for their men to come find them. The irony in this is that at first
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Rube-Goldberg Machine Rube- Goldberg machines are often complex inventions or contraptions that consist of a chain reaction in order to complete a simple task. The task of our Rube-Goldberg machine was to place a bingo chip on the bingo board in order to “win” bingo! Our machine had multiple transfers of energy which consisted of both kinetic and potential energy. Overall‚ our machine displays eight simple machines that all consist of transfers of energy in the process. To begin‚ our contraception
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Zachary WilhoitDr. Anna TeekellEnglish 11011 September 2014No one likes the U.S. Forest ServiceBill Bryson’s A Walk In the Woods is a book about Bryson and his partner Katz hiking the Appalachian Trail. In the book‚ Bryson talks about many controversial issues pertaining to the Appalachian Trail and states his opinion one them. The one that really aggravates him are the jobs that the National Forest Service does‚ or from Bryson’s point of view don’t do. Bryson’s view on this is that you would think
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Compare how poets present ideas about death in ‘Mametz Wood’ and ‘Futility’. ‘Mametz Wood’ and ‘Futility’ both present different ideas about death. Sheers shows ideas about the deaths of many soldiers‚ whereas Owen presents ideas about the death of only one soldier. ‘Mametz Wood’ suggests the fragility of life when Sheers writes ‘broken bird’s egg of a skull’. The metaphor gives the image of a young and vulnerable hatchling that could be easily broken at any point‚ just as the soldiers were who
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(My Wood Final) E.M. Forster’s “My Wood” is a jocular essay that expresses Forster’s reaction to owning a small estate. It’s easy to depict that Forster has a negative attitude towards his experience of having the property. His manipulation of sentences and play with words conveys his humorous approach. The use of biblical allusions supports Foster’s attitude. The passage makes us think of the seductive power of possessing objects. Forster has a satirical attitude as if he is laughing at what
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MEEM 3700 – Suggested problems from Chapter 1 1.7.1 Given that ω=5 rad/sec‚ then the frequency in Hz is f=ω/2π and the period T= 1/f 1.15 The displacement amplitude X=0.15mm or 0.00015m The acceleration amplitude is ω2X = 0.6g = 0.6 (9.81) m/sec2 ω2 = ω2X/ X ; but ω is in rad/sec. Convert rad/sec to rpm to get the shaft speed (1890 rpm). 1.18 p=polyfit(x‚f‚1) ; p=35.18‚ -0.0607 and f=35.18x - 0.0607; k=35.18 (the slope of the line) 1.19 For springs end to end (series)‚ 1/keq = 1/k1 = 1/k2 ; for equal
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The Bretton Woods System : 1946- 1971 The Bretton Woods System (BWS) was implemented in 1946 under the Bretton Woods Agreement‚ each government obliged to maintain a fixed exchange rate for its currency vis-à-vis the dollar or gold. As one ounce of gold was set equal to $35‚ fixing a currency’s gold price was equivalent to setting its exchange rate relative to the dollar. The fixed exchange rates were maintained by official intervention in the foreign exchange markets. This intervention was
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