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    hope amongst the general population. While not focusing specifically on Karl Marx, as Reiman includes similar authors such as Emile Durkheim, Reiman’s main point is that through the application of the Pyrrhic defeat theory with a cover of historical inertia, the population has been subconsciously convinced what consists of the criminal class in the United States. Law enforcement would say that the perceived common criminal is young, Black, male, and poor, but a criminal class extends much…

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    in the physical realm “I am alone and they are everyone” (Dostoevsky, 2001, p.58). the tone in this particular context renders an ostracised man who is oppressed by loneliness. Yet how significant Is loneliness for a man that believes “conscious inertia Is better” is the subject of controversy in Dostoevsky’s notes from the underground? Indeed, the Nevsky Prospect of the anti-hero yearning to bump into the officer was his desire to achieve his dignity. The euphoria “I was ecstatic! And sang…

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    track of the roller coaster keeps the car and therefore the rider, from travelling in a straight path. The force of a rider's acceleration pushes them from the coaster-car floor, and their inertia pushes them into the car floor. As one travels upside down on the loop, he or she's own outward inertia creates a false sense of gravity that stays fixed at the bottom of the car. Thus in most loop-the-loops,…

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    Because of inertia and gravity the roller coaster has acceleration which according to "The Physics Classroom" is the rate at which an object changes velocity. When the coaster is under a negative slope (going downwards) the gravity naturally pulls the front of the car towards the ground, it keeps moving because of inertia and accelerates 9.8m/s/s due to gravity pulling it towards the ground and the opposite happens…

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    No engine is required because of inertia. The riders in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by an equal but opposite force. Once you come down from the hill you will experience three extreme vertical loops. As you go around a loop-the -loop, your inertia not only produces an exciting acceleration force, but it also keeps you in the seat when you are upside down. Centripetal force is…

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    Did the US fake the moon landing? Or did they truly step foot on the moon and beat the Soviet Union in the Space Race? On many occasions we are reminded that the US were the first people to step foot on the moon. Although this is such a great accomplishment, considering the US defeated the Soviet Union in the Space Race, there are still many conspiracies that say the moon landing was fake. The Space Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for the greatest…

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    Newton’s First Law, the law of inertia, states that an object in motion will remain in motion unless it is acted upon by an outside force such as gravity or friction. Not surprisingly, a not in motion will remain not in motion unless an outside force acts on the object. Additionally, in order for movement to stop the outside force must be strong enough to overcome the inertia from the object. In order for an object to move the outside force must be enough…

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    experiences a sudden decrease in speed. (HowStuffWorks. 2002) Due to a passengers’ inertia being separate to the cars, once the vehicle is in motion, the passengers’ body will want to continue travelling forwards, even if the car suddenly stops. The seatbelt helps to overcome your own inertia by slowing you down at a similar…

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    2 Loads and Structural Stress Because of the energy content of the wind is relative to the cube of the wind speed, turbine blades exposed to wind speeds will be under an enormous amount of stress. In order to diminish the impact of wind speeds, turbine manufacturers develop the rotors on them with few blades somehow they are as narrow and long as practical (Pinting ZHANG and Shuhong HUANG 2011). The maximum efficiency from such blades can be attained based on the pitch at an optimum angle…

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    3D geometric processing of sequence of images. In our project, we captured a sequence of 3D ASL gestures using the Prime Sense sensor and proposed a novel trajectory based method of classification of ASL gestures using the method of Axis of Least Inertia (ALI).Feature Extraction is done using both local features and global features of a gesture. The ALI method of feature extraction is applied to global features while local feature extraction is done using the distance between each of the…

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