this lab was what is the best height that will give the marble the potential energy to hit the target cup. Energy is the ability to do work. Potential energy is the energy of position and kinetic energy is the energy of motion. In order for the ramp to be successful‚ the ramp had to have the right amount of potential and kinetic energy. If you have too much potential energy than the marble would have too much kinetic energy and the marble would not land inside of the target cup‚ it will go right
Premium Chemical reaction Statistics Chemistry
Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder in which antibodies produced by your immune system stimulate your thyroid to overproduce hormones. To attain a better idea of Graves’ disease‚ attention has to be given to how the thyroid works.The thyroid is a butterfly shaped gland under the laryngeal prominence or adam’s apple‚ that is responsible for secreting thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) that increase the body’s metabolic rate. The thyroid is regulated by the hypothalamus
Premium Signal transduction Immune system Hormone
1. Our digestive system provides the body a means to transfer nutrition from the external environment into the cellular level in order to sustain life. Salivary glands‚ controlled by the autonomic nervous system‚ are located in the oral cavity. Its main role is to secrete saliva in the oral cavity. There are three pairs of salivary glands. Parotoid savary gland lies under the skin on each side of the mandible. These glands secrete amylase‚ an enzyme that breaks down starches. The parotoid duct implies
Premium Digestion Stomach Liver
chemical to clean your floors and start to notice that it is eating away your floors. If you have this expensive type of floor in your home your best bet is to learn how to clean marble floors properly. Marble is a soft‚ porous natural stone and taking special care of this type of stone can be challenging but if the marble is taken care of properly it will make any room elegant. Tip One Sweeping often is sometimes a little daunting‚ but will help out your floors so much. It is recommended that you
Premium Marketing Management Retailing
Jacques Dei English 4 Mr.. Greshes January 8. 2012. Dear my fellow MVHS students: Alcoholism is a predisposed disease and is rapidly growing to become a very domineering issue in our society. While paying attention to various news broadcasts and newspapers‚ I have found that different domestic abuse cases and murders have been under the influence of alcohol. It really pains me to see teens in my own society fall victim to the influence. Alcohol can cause males to abuse females physically
Premium Alcoholism Alcohol intoxication Physical abuse
Released in 1988‚ Grave of the Fireflies is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko‚ who lost their mother and father through different events of World War II. As a result they are forced to try to survive‚ any way they can‚ though their efforts are finally lost when Setsuko dies of malnutrition‚ and Seita dies not long after. It’s based on a semi-autobiographic book by the same name‚ whose author lost his sister due to malnutrition in 1945 during the war. The main value shown throughout
Premium Family Short story Death
In the film Grave of the Fireflies‚ the director tugs at people’s heartstrings and forces them to look at World War II in a different light – too often‚ we forgot that the civilian casualty numbers are real‚ live people‚ and we tend to just look at them as a figure. In addition‚ a good part of this film takes place after the war has ended‚ which is a period that goes vastly un-talked about. People like to think that after the war officially ended‚ it was a time of joy for everyone‚ but sadly this
Premium World War II United States Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
the Parthenon Marbles‚ also known as the Elgin Marbles‚ from Lord Elgin on July 11‚ 1816 through an Act of Parliament (1). The Parthenon marbles consist of 115 panels of frieze and 92 mesotopes of which the British Museum owns 56 panels of the frieze and 15 mesotopes. The museum also owns 17 pedimental figures‚ and thus houses about half of surviving sculptures of the Parthenon while the other half is in Athens (2). The legal circumstances surrounding Lord Elgin’s removal of the marbles is questionable
Premium Parthenon Elgin Marbles British Museum
If you have marble flooring and you want your marble flooring to look great‚ you need to take proper care of your flooring. A large part of taking care of marble flooring involves waxing‚ stripping and polishing your floors. Over time‚ the wax used to make your marble floors shine tends to start to build up and makes your floors look foggy instead of shiny. When this happens‚ you need to remove the wax on your marble floors through a process called stripping. Necessary Supplies You will not need
Premium Hygiene Skin Cleanliness
- 2 Marbles of different mass‚ one steel and one nylon - Dropping Mechanism with a lever to hold the marble and pull for drop - Bee Spi (measures velocity in kilometers per hour.) - Box to catch the marble on the way down Procedure The dropping mechanism was set up‚ with the BeeSpi attached to it at 26.5” from the lever that drops it so that the marble would fall through it‚ therefore recording the velocity in km/h. There was also a box at the bottom of the mechanism to catch the marble every
Premium Force Mass Classical mechanics