VAN DE GRAAFF GENERATOR This is a machine that can build up high voltages of the order of a few million volts. The resulting large electric fields are used to accelerate charged particles (electrons‚ protons‚ ions) to high energies needed for experiments to probe the small scale structure of matter. Principle 1. Skin effect 2. Electrostatic induction 3. Action of points Construction A hollow metallic sphere A is mounted on insulating pillars as shown‚ and a pulley B is mounted at the centre
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Group: 1 // Word count : 448 words Date of submission: October‚ 6‚ 2015 Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous artists. He was born on March 30‚ 1853‚ in Groot-Zundert‚ Netherlands. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work‚ notable for its beauty‚ emotion and color‚ highly influenced 20th century art. He struggled with mental illness‚ and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Van Gogh died in France on July 29‚ 1890‚ at age 37‚ from a self-inflicted gunshot wound
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With only 13 years between the births of the two artists‚ we could say that Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh were born in the same period. They may have been born quite close together but both men discovered art was their vocations almost 20 years apart‚ which may have been why they are such different artists. Monet had a head start on Van Gogh as he was introduced to art at a very young age. Monet also had a mentor who taught him the tricks of the trade and pushed him from caricatures to landscape
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Present value is where the value on a set date of a future payment is discounted to reflect the time value of money and other factors. This can also apply to a series of future payments. Present value calculations are commonly utilized in business and economics to provide a way to compare cash flows at different times. Present value can be described as the current worth of a future sum of money or stream of cash flows given a specified rate of return. (http://www.getobjects.com) Future cash flows
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September 9‚ 2012 “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh “Starry Night” was created by Vincent Van Gogh. It is one of the most popular paintings‚ also being one of the most replicated and sought after prints. The “Starry Night” was painted in 1889. The painting is oil on canvas and is 29 x 36 1/4". It is located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City‚ New York. The painting is of the night sky‚ with clouds swirling‚ the stars shining bright‚ a crescent moon glowing above‚ a sleeping town below
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Flipped‚ by Wendelin Van Draanen is a book about a young boy name Bryce Loski moving into a small town and in the process of moving‚ he meets a young girl named Juli Baker. Juli had two brothers who looked like twins‚ a dad and a mother‚ and an Uncle that had disorders. Juli lives across the street from Bryce and she felt like it was love at first sight and she kept gazing into his beautiful‚ dazzling‚ blue eyes. Juli went crazy for Bryce‚ she followed him around at school and went to his house all
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Rip Van Winkle is a short story written from the Dutch history. This tale was found among the papers of the late Deidrich Knickerbocker‚ an old gentleman of New York‚ who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province. The history is about a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains to a much-changed world. The story describes the experience of Van Winkle had upon waking up after his twenty years nap. “He had now entered the skirts of the village. A troop of strange children
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Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn‚ Germany‚ and was baptized on Dec. 17‚ 1770. There has never been any type of authentic record or file as to when he was actually born. Ludwig van Beethoven’s grandfather and father functioned as court musicians in Bonn. Beethoven’s father‚ who was a singer‚ provided Beethoven with a lot of his early musical teaching. Beethoven didn’t have the best education‚ but he studied violin‚ French horn‚ and piano‚ and before he was even 12 years old‚ Beethoven became
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Abstract: For a very long time‚ Values have been considered extremely important in the basic functioning of the organization – to explain the action in and around organizations. The formation of organizational values takes place within the sphere of influence of external and internal forces‚ and therefore‚ a combination of several important determinants should be taken into account in order to understand the rationale behind the values held by organizations. Introduction We have had great leaders
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Vincent Van Gogh’s strength as an artist comes from both the relationships with the people that he is close with and the connection that he has to the common man as shown in his many paintings of friends‚ family‚ and strangers‚ and the techniques that he has incorporated into them‚ learned from his many artist acquaintances. When Van Gogh focused on average workers in his early career‚ his drawings represented a side of humanity that no other painter was quite able to achieve. He was born on March
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