PHY 114: General Physics Laboratory Lab 1: Absorption of Nuclear Radiation 09/04/13 Abstract Nuclear physics was practiced to find the value of tau. After 8 trials of using a G-M counter and 8 different mass thicknesses of polyethylene‚ a graph was formed and tau was calculated to be 0.1931 cm^2/g‚ an error of 3.57% from the accepted value of 0.2 cm^2/g. Experiment was also used as an intro to using basic lab equipment‚ computer programs and calculating errors. With many different
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A slum‚ as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat‚ is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing‚ squalor‚ and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations‚ the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005.[1] However‚ due to rising population‚ and the rise especially in urban populations‚ the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums[2]
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Book Review: The city of joy by Dominique Lapierre Feb.14/2012 The city of joy is a touching international bestselling novel turned movie‚ which depicts a story of love‚ kindness and faith in the slum of Anand Nagar. The novel features 3 main characters Stephan Kovalski (a Catholic priest)‚ Max Loeb (an American doctor)‚ and Hansari Pal (an Indian rickshaw driver). The novel goes into depth about the different trials and tribulations these 3 men face. Their lives in the slum are that of starvation
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The events that occurred in Newark during the 1960’s should definitely be referred to as a riot. During the time the African Americans connoted wild‚ uncontrolled‚ criminal behavior. On the other hand they did have the aim to try to affect the government actions and policy‚ but they did it in an uncontrolled way. Using the word “rebellion” suggests that the African Americans had a clear cut reason to behave the way they did‚ without a justifiable cause. The government of Newark failed to incorporate
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Imaging a world where you have to fight to survive. A world where you could die when you step out your house. A world that is full of hatred and racism. Racism runs through the city’s blood‚ and has thus led to a high amount of street and gang violence. A world where being in school is the same as being on the street. Gang war can broke out anywhere at any time. Eva Benitez came from a family with a strong gang heritage. When she was younger‚ she witnessed her uncle got shot in a drive-by
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It has proven to be that the basic thing is not the place a man lives and the major thing to be energetic is that a man lives with whom. Youths their surroundings not by a city or town affect characters. Regardless‚ unmistakably people’s life and their characters change by where they live. Thusly‚ the vast city life and local location life impacts people’s life and their differences make differentiates all through different people life. It can be said these differences between enormous city life
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Why‚ one wonders‚ Chandigarh -that distinguished itself to be ’the City Beautiful’ because of the masterly urban planning & designing‚ is not becoming such‚ as a whole with the passage of time? A clean canvass for the layout of Chandigarh was facilitated by uprooting many villages which became reality because of the psyche of the countrymen then for the larger interest of building a city of tomorrow. The master architect and planner prepared the master plan of the proposed capital with network
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Rapid urbanization began in the 1870s as people flocked to the cities. These urban centers quickly overcrowded‚ and many were divided into business‚ residential‚ social and ethnic centers. Among this chaos‚ corruption thrived as political bosses ran the city for their own personal gain and power. It appeared as if the nation was modernizing too fast because they were unable to deal with problems of urbanization. The changes in urban America in the late nineteenth century therefore are viewed to be
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Gevelekian 1 Tatiana Gevelekian Professor Lai AAS 9 November 2013 The Effects of Public Policy Public policies have played a large role in creating the suburbs and contributing to segregation in Los Angeles. The 1956 Interstate Defense Highway Act helped create and sustain suburbs but the process maintained segregation against those of low income. After the streetcar system government organizations built freeways in areas of low income‚ leaving residents with no choice but to evacuate
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Dhaka‚ Bangladesh Located on the banks of the Buriganga River lies Dhaka; the capital city of Bangladesh. This megacity is the 7th largest populous city in the world‚ with an estimated population of 15 million‚ according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. It is expected to reach a staggering population of 25 million by 2025 (growing at a fast rate of 4.2% per year).The number of Dhaka City’s young population is relatively high due to the age selective rural-urban migration. About 40% of the
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