UV4297 March 24‚ 2010 THE ABERDEEN EXPERIMENT The phone rang yet again‚ but Sarah Mann‚ general manager of the BAE Systems plant in Aberdeen‚ South Dakota‚ was ready. Experience told her what the question would be: Had the “Aberdeen experiment‚” begun by Bob Lancaster when the plant was built‚ undergone any changes over the past quarter century? From the beginning‚ Lancaster’s design and management of the plant‚ which produced missile launch canisters for the U.S. Navy‚ were unusual—and successful
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Experiment 4A – Counting Atoms in a Chemical Reaction Purpose: The purpose of this lab is to create an experiment where zinc reacts with hydrochloric acid in order to find out the number of moles and atoms of zinc reacted. This can be accomplished by weighing the sample before and after the reaction with hydrochloric acid. Data: Material Mass in grams (g) Initial mass of dry beaker 49.37 Initial mass of dry beaker + zinc 51.03 Initial mass of zinc 1.66 Final mass
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3. Why don’t the terms depolarization and action potential mean the same thing? The terms depolarization and action potential differ because are excitable cells that communicate by transmitting electrical impulses that are capable of producing rapid electrical signals and depolarization in the interior surface of the membrane which becomes less negative and the exterior surface becomes less positive. Additionally‚ when depolarization reaches a certain threshold‚ an action potential is initiated
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THE CUCKOO’S EGG BOOK ANALYSIS – TRACKING A SPY Suma Lakshminarayan Book Analysis Paper Professor Jon Clark Summer Quarter 2012 11 September‚ 2012 INTRODUCTION The Cuckoo’s Egg book is well written by Cliff Stoll. It was something like reading a horror story book. It was creepy‚ suspense‚ curiosity and scary too. The hacker every time breaks into a military system seemed to be like a ghost entering into the house and not like a thief. We know thief will definitely when he
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Kean Gerard Sumayo Experiment 1 APPLICATION OF STATISTICAL CONCEPTS IN THE DETERMINATION OF WEIGHT VARIATION IN SAMPLES I. OBJECTIVES 1. To determine the use of the different statistical concepts 2. To perform the proper applications of the statistical methods/ concepts on determining the weight variations of samples II. RESULTS and DISCUSSIONS A. Weight of Samples Ten 1-peso coins were used as samples for this experiment and were weighed carefully
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Observation and Experiment Data Table A. The Overall Reaction What are the physical properties of the individual substances? Chemical Observation Calcium Chloride Grainy‚ White Sodium Bicarbonate White‚ flour texture Phenol Red Solution The color of Hawaiian punch‚ thin consistency‚ semi- transparent What happens when the substances are mixed together? Observations Calcium Chloride- Foams and heats up when mixed with the phenol red. Turned orange Sodium Bicarbonate- Turned orange
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Purpose: To find the initial velocity of a marble leaving a ramp using time‚ range‚ and background information learned in class. Equipment: The equipment used in this experiment was a toy track and ramp‚ a small marble‚ multiple Physics textbooks‚ meter sticks‚ bright-colored cardstock‚ masking tape‚ sidewalk chalk‚ plastic bag and a cloth. Procedure: Our experimental values include the height that the marble would travel‚ y= 88.1 cm‚ and our ramp angle‚ θ= 44.0°. These independent variables
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The purpose of this experiment was to test the tonicity of potato cells. The potato cells were placed in different test tubes with water and were left there for 15 minutes. The percent change in mass is then used to determine if the cells lost or gained water‚ therefore determining the tonicity of the cell. Although it was a brief short time‚ the final results showed that the more water the potatoes were placed in‚ the more hypotonic the potato becomes. Tonicity is stated to be the state of a solution
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Is it normally acceptable to experiment on non-human animals to develop products and medicines that benefit human beings? New scientific research has cast grave doubt on the safety testing of hundreds of thousands of consumer products. Everyday products‚ from soft drinks to paints‚ contain numerous synthetic chemicals. Official assurances of the safety of these chemicals are based largely on animal experiments. But recent results from a consortium in America suggested such assurances may be worthless
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Brenda Richardson Intro. to Psych. Chapter 6 Part 2 Loftus Experiment Elizabeth Loftus‚ a psychologist and expert on memory‚ has conducted much research on human memories‚ real and imagined‚ and how that may happen. Loftus‚ personally‚ has experienced the misinformation effect and eyewitness memory. Even though there are several experiments outlined‚ I chose the ’Lost in the Mall’ experiment as more fitting to the sex abuse testimony she gave. Participants‚ twenty-four of them‚
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