Inertia

I. Science Fair Question What is the speed of light in gelatin? II. Background Research Did you ever wonder how the speed of light is measured? This paper will discuss how the speed of light is measured. The terms that will discussed in this paper are the law of refraction, trajectory, Snell’s Law, and the index of refraction. Snell’s Law gives the relationship between angles of incidence and refraction for a wave impinging on an interface between two media with…

Strength and conditioning coaches (SCC) have strived to find exercises that transfer to aid the development of specific sports skills. These exercises come in many forms, from resistance to body weight or from more technical based Olympic style weightlifting exercises, such as the clean and jerk, with the aim being to benefit the athlete with transferable capabilities that improve the sport specific skill (Hori et al., 2008; Behm, 1985). For the coach to design an effective training plan, how an…

The Most They Ever Had, written by Rick Bragg tells the story of hard working southern whites who even under harsh conditions went to work every day for what they felt was the best paycheck they ever made. The mill was more than work; it was family, life and salvation. It was baseball games, childhood pranks, poverty, singers, and love. From the mills of Greenleaf, to the textile union strikes, to President Roosevelt changing labor laws, the mills were a legacy of hard work. Americans worked…

As social work students who are interested in the social work fields of private practice, criminal justice, and education, we are likely to encounter adolescents at-risk of encountering the juvenile justice system or with a history in the system. Included in the ever-growing prison population in our country are thousands of people under the age of 18. In late 2014, there were over 50,000 adolescents under the age of 18 in juvenile detention facilities and over 4,000 adolescents under the age of…

Ginde, Savaser, and Camargo (2009) conducted a study to evaluate the communication and early management of emergency department hyperglycemia. A retrospective cohort study design was used and Institutional Review Board’s (IRB) approval was obtained. The population was emergency department (ED) patients at an urban, academic institution with approximately 50,000 annual visits. Using electronic records, they identified patients with a first serum glucose value of > 140 mg/dL. Researchers then…

How old is our universe really? For years there has been a race to discover the Solar System’s true age. For thousands of years, people have thought the Solar System and everything inside it to be created only several thousand years ago. Whereas many people now days have discovered that there is a considerable amount of evidence to suspect the Solar System is actually billions of years old. Fairly recent discovers have brought to light that there is also counter evidence to disprove the billion…

Behind the voices: Agency in the racial divide of today’s America In “The Third Man”, Richard Rodriguez explores the importance which Americans attribute to race and its influence on the conception of their identity. Since it is on the basis of race that many communities distinguish and distance themselves from all others, he advocates for the end of America’s emphasis on racial categories by dismantling this very notion: that race is a binary between “blacks” and “whites”. One of the…

Our first few days on the road were uneventful. All our stopovers had been meticulously planned. Support runners accompanied, and then met us as planned, all arranged by Stapleya via the 'Bedrock Telegraph'. No word of the stranded couriers responsible for delivering our weaponry. By now we considered them likely dead, eaten by the predators. Surviving one night was unlikely. Multiple nights, quite impossible. On the fifth day we were approaching our destination, the castle nearest the site of…

There is no arguing that the prevalence of television shows, social media applications for smart phones, and video games are taking over much of the time people spend daily. There always seems to be the next bigger and better thing. This leaves people with a desire to obtain these things to be a part of what everyone else is doing. Society has painted a picture of “exclusiveness” when you have the latest smart phones, social media applications, televisions, or video games. If we all hunger for…

the historian Ramesh Chandra Majumdar puts it, “Reason and judgement took the place of faith and belief; superstition yielded to science; immobility was replaced by progress, and a zeal for reform of proved abuses over powered age-long apathy and inertia, and a complacent acquiescence in whatever was current in society.” The conflict between rational and irrational ideologies is seen in literature and films of Bengal. Satyajit Ray’s Devi…