Ship Stability for Masters and Mates Ship Stability for Masters and Mates Fifth edition Captain D. R. Derrett Revised by Dr C. B. Barrass OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House‚ Jordan Hill‚ Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue‚ Woburn‚ MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group First published by Stanford Maritime Ltd 1964 Third edition (metric) 1972 Reprinted
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radiation‚ e.g. microwaves‚ sun radiation etc) and/or energy flow from a system to the surrounding. The former leads to heating‚ whereas the latter results in cooling of an object. The cooling of objects is usually considered to be due to three fundamental mechanisms: conduction of heat‚ convection and radiative transfer of energy . Although these three mechanisms of energy flow are quite different from each other‚ one often finds a very simple law for their combined action to describe
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Focus On Concepts Section 15.3 The First Law of Thermodynamics 1. The first law of thermodynamics states that the change U in the internal energy of a system is given by U = Q - W‚ where Q is the heat and W is the work. Both Q and W can be positive or negative numbers. Q is a positive number if ________‚ and W is a positive number if ________. (a) the system loses heat; work is done by the system (b) the system loses heat; work is done on the system (c) the system gains heat; work is done by
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Introduction The natural source of both plasma and electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is the sun. There are various similarities such as the presence of electric and magnetic field in both EMR and plasma. Both transport contain energy and are ubiquitous in the universe. However‚ there are large differences between EMR and plasma. Differences between EMR and plasma EMR is energy that propagates through a medium in the form of EM waves. It has an electric and magnetic field which oscillate in
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Calculating the Enthalpy Change of Reaction for the Displacement Reaction between Zinc and Aqueous Copper Sulphate Data Collection and Processing Observations: * Drops of water left on the inside of the measuring cylinder * Hole in the lid‚ possible escape route for gas or splash-back * The polystyrene cup felt warm during the reaction By extrapolating the graph we can estimate what the rise in temperature would have been if the reaction had taken place instantaneously. I can
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The Rutherford Model of the Atom 1. In 1911 Rutherford proposed the nuclear model of atomic structure. He suggested that an atom consists of a central nucleus (where most of the mass of the atom is concentrated) having a positive charge‚ surrounded by moving electrons carrying negative charge. Geiger and Marsden carried out an experiment to verify his proposal. The Geiger/Marsden a Particle Scattering Experiment 1. The apparatus is illustrated in the diagram below. | 2. The apparatus
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Sameera Raziuddin Latent Heat of Fusion April 11‚ 2011 Abstract: A calorimeter‚ water at room temperature‚ ice‚ and a Pasco GLS Explorer were used in combination with a known value of the latent heat of fusion to create and carry out an experiment to determine the mass of an unknown amount of ice. Using the formula for latent heat of fusion‚ the mass of the ice was calculated to be 45.76g. The error of the carried out experiment was calculated to be 20.06%. Introduction:
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Purpose The purpose of this experiment is to test Coulomb’s Law which states that the force between two spherically symmetric charged objects is directly proportional to the product of the charges‚ and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the centers of the two charges. In mathematical vector notation Coulomb’s Law is expressed as where Fr is the force on particle 1 due to particle 2 in Newtons‚ q is the charge on 12 1 particle 1 in Coulombs‚ q2 is the charge on particle
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Reflective Practice Introduction: Reflection its self is looking into personal thoughts and actions. For nurses this would mean looking at how they performed a particular task taking into consideration their interaction with their colleagues and other members of staff‚ patients and in some cases relatives This then enables the nurse to assess their actions and thought processes. There are various frameworks of reflection that one could choose and the examples used for this work
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Ferroelectric phases and relaxor states in the novel lead-free ( 1 – x ) Bi1/2K1/2TiO3 - x BiScO3 system ( 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.3 ) Leticia Martín-Arias‚ Miguel Algueró and Alicia Castro*. Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid‚ CSIC. Cantoblanco‚ 28049 Madrid‚ Spain. acastro@icmm.csic.es * acastro@icmm.csic.es Tel: +34 91 334 9000 Fax: +34 91 372 0623 1 Abstract The novel lead-free Bi-based ferroelectric system with perovskite structure (1 − x) Bi1/2K1/2TiO3 – x BiScO3 was synthesized
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