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    (2) Vocabulary Momentum Vocabulary Your score is 100%. 1. a force that increases the net momentum of a system 1.   Momentum 2.   Impulse 3.   External Force 4.   Internal Force 5.   Law of Conservation of Momentum 6.   Elastic Collision 7.   Inelastic Collision 8.   Perfectly Inelastic Collision 2. a force that does not increase the net momentum of a system. 1.   Momentum 2.   Impulse

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    STARWARD ACADEMY WORKSHEET # 2 MOMENTUM DUE: 1. Calculate the momentum of an object if: (a) its mass is 4.0 kg and its velocity is 8.0 ms-1 (b) its mass is 500 kg and its velocity is 3.0 kms-1 (c) a force of 20 N is applied to it for 6.0 s and it moves from rest (d) its mass is 2.0 kg and it falls from rest for 10 s (assuming g = 10 ms-1 or 10 Nkg-1). 2. A car of 1200 kg is pushed along a level road by two men. If they use a force of 800 N and frictional forces acting against

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    articles focus on anomalies that should not hold true in an efficient market and other articles try to dispel those anomalies. Market efficiency anomalies such as momentum‚ reversal effects‚ book-to-market effects and post-earnings-announcement drifts have contributed to the argument against the idea of market efficiency. Momentum Jegadeesh and Titman 1993 aimed to investigate the returns on stocks that had previously performed well (winners) and sell stocks that had previously performed

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    1. What is a momentum investment strategy? Momentum is the phenomenon that stocks which have performed well in the past will continue to perform well in the future‚ and that stocks which have performed poorly will continue to perform poorly. Therefore a momentum investment strategy is to invest in short term portfolios that have high returns in the past‚ and to short those with low returns over the same period. 2. Analyze these portfolios. By analyzing monthly returns of all 10 portfolios from

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    Progressive Era

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    early 20th century‚ Progressivism changed the role of government drastically. (pg. 777) The Progressive Era was a time of widespread‚ extraordinary “political innovation” and “social activism” that spanned from 1890 to 1920. (pg. 777) Progressives at the time sought to change the U.S. for the better due to the consequences of the urban-industrial revolution that caused a “crisis of democracy.” (pg. 777) Progressive reformers had varied motives and goals‚ such as populism‚ economic depression‚ influential

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    Grade 8 Progressives in the late 1800’s-1900’s Our nation lost its way during the Gilded Age (1870s-1920s). The Gilded Age was a term made up by Mark Twain due to him having a book called the Gilded Age‚ which satirized American society in the late 1800s. It was a time of government corruption‚ poverty‚ and awful labor conditions but it being covered up by big businesses‚ or “gilded”. Progressives were people who were advocating social reforms such as the prohibition of alcohol

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    The Progressive Movement (1900-1920) was basically a reform movement. The movement drew its ideals and inspiration from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and reform groups that had attracted some attention in the 19th Century. The progressives were successful in part because they were able to rally the better part of a generation to their ideas about reform. While not all progressives supported all progressive reforms‚ the basic objectives of the movement included the following: Destruction of the

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    allowing Progressive to work it aggressively. The company specialized in a top-quality claims service and did not at all worry that it was a high-cost operator. This was a luxury it could afford‚ knowing that its customers‚ short of alternatives‚ would pay up for policies. But in the mid-1980s‚giant Allstate‚ looking around for growth in its essentially mature market‚ finally focused on how much Progressive was making in its niche and‚ within a couple of years‚ outdistanced Progressive in non-standard

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    country‚ the progressive era was the response of different groups to the problems present. Progressivism focused on promoting new ideas with a new wave of industrialization‚ social reforms‚ and laws. The most prevalent change that occurred in this time period was the introduction of a new idea: democracy. Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or through elected members

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    Jerome Weston The Progressive Era The Progressive Era‚ which lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s‚ was an age of reform‚ the nation’s response to the industrial revolution. Its effects touched virtually all Americans and transformed the role of government in American society. Although some areas of American life‚ namely‚ racial issues and women’s rights‚ were neglected during the progressive age‚ the groundwork was laid for future reforms in those areas and others. During the

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