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    in fact crucial in terms of today’s concern over technology. One main problem is the Kessler Syndrome, a scenario in which the density of an object in low earth orbit is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade. Donald Kessler himself wrote, “There’s no doubt about it, a cascading collision of satellites in orbit would definitely affect life on Earth, by disrupting global communication, limit globalization and undermine military intelligence.” In fact, space debris can…

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    Acceleration Of Gravity

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    In this experiment the main goal is to examine the correlation between position, velocity, time, and acceleration of objects, moving in one or two dimensions. Each and every experiment will be conducted under different conditions. For example, the first experiment requires a constant force (gravity) to act on the object, the picket fence. This experiments other condition is that we neglect friction. This object should be in nearly ideally circumstances. In the second experiment, the conditions…

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    Sustainability in Space One may think that Earth’s orbit has an unlimited amount of space to hold whatever celestial bodies or satellites it may encounter, but like Earth’s population, there are always limits on space. NASA states that there are over 21,000 objects in Earth’s orbit today that can be considered debris over ten centimeters (Stansbery). Scientists worry about these objects colliding with one another. Collision could cause a major snowball effect that could end up damaging an…

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    Wrigley Advertisements

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    Methods: For this research paper I acquired all my advertising images from the internet. I found most of my images in November 2015. I was able to get some of the older images from vintagebrowser.com as well as vintage ad sellers such as ebay.com. I also found some through google pictures and Pinterest. I have one commercial which I found on YouTube. Since there were so many advertisements to choose from, I tried to pick one from approximately every decade. I choose these issues because I…

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    Ptolemaic Planetary Analysis

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    circular orbit. Faced with this problem, Hipparchos chooses to abandon the latter hypothesis7 likely due in part to the fact that there is another correlated phenomenon that contradicts the fact that the earth was at the center of these orbits – the angular size of the moon is variable, meaning that its distance to the earth was variable as well. Thus, the zodiacal inequality was justified by placing the earth a certain distance d away from the center of the orbit which describes an eccentric…

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    Nereid Essay

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    attraction of the internal satellite Triton on the evolution of the orbit of the external satellite Nereid. The disturbing function of Triton is given by: , (3.8) where is the product of the gravitational constant and mass of Triton, and refer to the radius vectors of Triton and Nereid respectively and . In spite of the fact that Nereid is classified as a distant satellite, the evolution of its orbit is presented as regular enough with practically secular variations…

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    Trebuchet Experiment

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    INTRODUCTION: A trebuchet is a type of catapult which was originally constructed back in medieval times. It was commonly utilized back then for launching large rocks or dead bodies either over or at castle 's walls in attempt to break them down or injury whoever was on the other side. Dead bodies were also launched over these walls in aim of scaring one 's enemy who was on the other side (Farrell, 2006). The trebuchet uses Isaac Newton’s laws which are; The greater the mass of the object being…

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    Space Debris Research

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    what this paper will mostly look at because that is mostly man-made objects that we have propelled into space and left there for years. These objects such as retired satellites and rockets orbit around in the low earth orbit. Since no country or nation has really attempted to take their old technologies out of orbit, there has been an increased risk of collisions associated with the small fragments that get broken off from the satellites and other electronic toys…

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    Daniel Ritchie Professor Ms. Macdonald English 26 October 1015 The effect of moon phases on human behavior. The term “Lunar effect” refers to the connection between the moon phases and human behavior. The recorded statistics were recorded in correlation with the phases of the moon. Mainly focusing on abnormal behavior during the full moon. Violence during the full or close to the full moon. 11,613 cases of aggravated assault in a five year period happened more often around the time of…

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    Cellular networks are a type of wireless WAN. Various technologies are utilized in cellular networks but there are only three basic modes of signal communications. These are simplex, half duplex and full duplex. In simplex transmissions the signal goes in only one direction and this type is usually seen in television and radio stations. Half duplex signaling is bi-directional but each signal has to wait its turn because only one can travel at a time. Examples of half duplex are the…

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