Module EG1083 Fluid Mechanics PRESSURE ‚ FLUID SYSTEMS and FLUID PRESSURES SM(1) Pressure Definition of Pressure Fluid pressure: Force per unit area exerted by a fluid in a solid wall. Force acts perpendicularly to the surface in contacts. Fluid is a co u d s common word for gas a d/o liquid. o od o and/or qu d Pressure is a scalar quantity. It has the units of: N/m2 or Pa (or kPa) in SI system of units psi in Imperial system of units Pressure can also be expressed in terms of height
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Democracy Democracy has become a dominant form of the government‚ that using in many countries. Democracy is a government form‚ which is the citizen should have a decision to vote their leader directly for their own country or elect the leader for the other problems. Democracy can develop it‚ if the majority and the minority party or the association willing works together. Which is everybody can talk and have an opinion‚ than will put the all idea together and take a better decision for the
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Pressure Today in our modern society cheating in school is growing at a rapid rate‚ but who is to blame‚ is it the school system is it students or is it the teachers. I strongly believe that it is not only the student’s fault but the school systems as well. To begin‚ cheating among students has rapidly increased. The numbers are crazy; statically 2 out of every 3 kids have cheated on a test‚ homework‚ ect. “Cheating in school is rampant and getting worse 64% of students cheated on a test in the
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the world are democracies. Knowing what is a democracy is really important‚ especially for those who live in a democracy. It allows you to understand what is the rule that the government plays in the society and know what are your rights and duties under a democratic administration. This essay will seek to define Democracy‚ the meaning of the word‚ the system and the history‚ and describe two of the most famous democracies: Direct democracy and Representative democracy. Democracy is a form of
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has suffered from various forms of threats to its peace and stability. These involve environmental degradation‚ poverty‚ diseases‚ hunger‚ drought and wars. Terrorism however‚ is emerging as a serious threat to African peace. Salvatore Freni (2010) points out that terrorism has undergone a number of changes and mutations. Salvatore went on to explain that “new” terrorism elements are rooted in globalization and are characterized by structure of terrorist groups which has evolved from hierarchies
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What is Democracy? 1.government by the people; a form of government in which thesupreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly bythem or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. 2.a state having such a form of government. 3.a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights andprivileges. 4.political or social equality; democratic spirit. 5.the common people of a community as distinguished from anyprivileged class; the common people with respect to theirpolitical power
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According to the essay “Too Much Pressure” by Colleen Wenke‚ the reason that students cheat on their tests is because they are under too much pressure to get good grades‚ which is accurately portrayed since cheating is usually seen as one of the only ways to pass tests and that’s what students are being stressed to do. Based on her essay‚ teachers should be teaching students right from wrong as opposed to pressuring to the extent of making them cheat. This is important to see because it is a way
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Supplemental Reading: Stereotype Threat In the article “A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance‚” Claude Steele discusses the empirical methods used to test a psychological theory called stereotype threat. Stereotype threat offers a new method for interpreting “group differences in standardized test scores‚” particularly for African-Americans taking standardized verbal tests and for women taking standardized math tests (p. 613). It states that if someone is
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Democracy: The Best of the Worst Democracy is without a doubt a fairly successful system of governance. Although dozens of systems have been tried over the ages‚ the world has been continuously edging towards increasingly democratic models‚ at least in baby steps when not in great leaps and bounds. And yet Winston Churchill - both the product and professional beneficiary of a modestly democratic system - suggested that he considered it to be paradoxically "the worst form of government except all
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Delusion of a postracial area We might be aware of some stereotypes related to our social identity but what we don’t know much about is stereotype threat. Stereotype threat has been shown to reduce the performance of successful people belonging to a certain negatively stereotyped group. Claude Steele‚ the author of Whistling Vivaldi‚ a social psychologist and Columbia University provost‚ writes about the work he and his colleagues have done on this phenomenon‚ the tendency to expect‚
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