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    Liberal Arts Critique

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    The presentation “A Liberal Use of ‘Liberal Arts’” by Matt Kirk, is a presentation teaching the audience about the classical view of liberal arts, specifically the trivium. The speaker then explains how the trivium disappeared from current education. Finally, the speaker calls for modern education to use elements of the classical liberal education, in order to make education stronger. The visual aid was very effectively used to create a guide for the audience to follow. The slides contained…

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    New Yorkomat Case Study

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    the last training sessions. Body composition measurement (bioelectrical impedance), resting energy expenditure and maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) were measured in the morning a day before and immediately after the two-week training period. The current case study was approved by the institutional review board of the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center. 2.2. Measurements 2.2.1. Participants…

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    Welding Research Paper

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    metal electrodes introduced by A.P. Strohmenger. Coatings were made from Clay or Lime. Also awarded a patent for an electrode coated with blue asbestos and a sodium silicate binder. First time an electrode produced a impurity free weld. 1919: Alternating current welding was invented by C.J. Holslag, but did not become popular for another decade. Electric arc welding was the method used in the United States until 1920. The problem with the method was that the welding arc was unstable and the…

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    Men Who Built America

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    and inventor, and is called America’s Greatest Inventor. He developed the invention of the light bulb using DC (direct current).Edison teamed up with J.P. Morgan to put the lightbulb and its power into every person’s home. However, Thomas Edison’s greatest competitor came out of his own business. Nikola Tesla was an employee of Edison, and he believe that AC (alternating current) was superior. George Westinghouse was the J.P. Morgan to Tesla. Westinghouse/Tesla and Morgan/Edison had a rivalry…

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    Photovoltaic cells convert solar radiation into electrical energy. The cells produce direct current from daylight. That current is then stored in batteries or transformed by an inverter into alternating current. From this step the current is fed into electricity networks or grids. The energy is then free to power various buildings, houses, or devices. There are two methods to install photovoltaic cells: ballasting…

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    coils were excited at a frequency of 15 kHz for a layer thickness of 1mm. On the right hand side shows the corrosion damage exposed for 4 hours by Ultrasonic phased array. Fig. 9: Eddy current array result (left) and Ultrasonic phased array result (right) (Kathir & John 2005) Figure 9 shows the Eddy current array scan result (left) for a specimen. This experiment is actually Experiment No. 3 from the table. The specimen contains corrosion damage which was created exclusively for this…

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    The Game of Tennis has evolved from wood rackets, 1st steel rackets, to modern day racket technology. Wooded tennis rackets were used during the 1900’s: when tennis first started in 1873 by an Englishman Major Walter C. Wingfleid. Tennis has been known of being the game of Royalty, but that soon as new tennis player 's developed there skills and start playing tennis Tournaments, that the rackets have changed to steal and to modern day rackets using graphite or carbon fiber. If you look at the…

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    effective vaccine protecting people even to today. Earlier in 1893 The State readers can read a recap of an exhibit held by Nikola Tesla. The exhibit was on the topic of alternating current. Tesla took 200,000 volts of electricity through himself during the show. He showed off different tricks playing around with electricity current. Tesla said he believed New York and Philadelphia would be able to run off the power harnessed by Niagara Falls in the future. (The State) People of the day could…

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    How To Make A Kite Essay

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    experiment) helped in building the connection between the electricity and lightning. In his experiment with kite included a kite with the key tie to the end of kite, which is connected to the Leyden jar. When the lighting struck the kite, the electric current travel down the string through the key and into the Leyden jar. We wonder that “what is there in Leyden jar”. It is an old fashioned battery and consist of the glass jar, wrapped in, with lead foil lining. Going into the jar is a metal rod…

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    Spot Welding Essay

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    • What is means of welding? The welding is the processes which make the permanent bonding between the two or more solid bodies o the metal if the welding is not done properly the welding joint can be brake from the welding place and if the welding is done properly the metal can be brake from the middle or the center of the object • Spot welding http://www.taylorautobody.com/Portals/16/images/Pro%20Spot%202.jpg There is many type of welding processes 1 Gas welding 2 Gas shielded arc welding 3…

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