...ENV 122 Lab 04: Habitable Planet Carbon Cycle This lab is developed from the Habitable Planet Interactive Carbon Lab found at https://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/interactives/carbon/ Overview This lab uses a robust model of the carbon cycle to give you an intuitive sense for how carbon circulates through the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and crust. This model is similar to ones presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It allows you to experiment with how human input to the cycle might change global outcomes to the year 2100 and beyond. One particularly relevant human impact is the increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. Between the years 1850 and 2015, atmospheric concentrations have risen from 290 parts per million (ppm) to over 400 ppm - a level higher than any known on Earth in more than 30 million years (see Unit 12 to find out how scientists measure ancient atmospheric carbon levels). Using the simulator, you will experiment with the human factors that contribute to this rise and explore how different inputs to the carbon cycle might affect the concentrations of the greenhouse gas CO2. Procedure Read through the material and follow the directions provided on the Habitable Planet website (unless otherwise instructed). Fill in the tables below with your data and answer the questions. Note: DO NOT download the data tables provided on the HP website. This file contains everything you will need. Save your file as: LASTNAME-Lab04-HPCarbonCycle...
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...Jupiter’s Moons Lab Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to determine the period and semi-major axis for the orbit of each moon around Jupiter. We then apply Kepler’s Laws to calculate the mass of Jupiter from out observations of each moon. Procedure: Choose a moon per lab partner. Open the Moons of Jupiter program by clicking on START → Programs → Academic Department → CLEA Exercises → Jupiter Moons. The Moons of Jupiter program simulates the operation of an automatically controlled telescope with a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) camera that provides a video image to a computer screen. It is a sophisticated computer program that allows convenient measurements to be made and the telescope's magnification to be adjusted. The computer simulation is realistic in all important ways, and using it will give you a good feel for how modern astronomers actually collect data and control their telescopes. Instead of using a telescope and actually observing the moons for many nights, the Moons of Jupiter computer simulation shows the moons to you as they would appear if you were to look through a telescope at the specified time. Click on File → Log In. A dialog box appears. Enter the names of each student working at your computer. When all the information had been entered to your satisfaction, click OK to continue. Click on File → Run. The next dialog box to appear is called Start Date & Time. Startup values are needed by the computer to establish your initial observation session...
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...copies of what was imagined to be perfect. Also, the perfect World of Forms (heavens) was where ideas, thoughts, concepts, imagination, reason, etc. exists. The seven planets ((in order; Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn) were intangible gods; therefore, they were part of the World of Forms. Plato taught that when people acted on perfect ideas (i.e., built stuff), the outcome, in the material world, must be imperfect. [Socrates taught of metaphysics, the study of what is real versus what we think is real but isn’t.] Aristotle (384 B.C.E. – 322 B.C.E.) – Greek philosopher and mathematician and a student of Plato. Credited when the early teaching of the scientific method (questioning, predicting outcomes, classifying/ organizing data, drawing conclusions founded in logic). Aristotle taught of the Universe existing in two realms. The Terrestrial Realm consisted of all material objects. All material objects, or matter, were made of combinations of the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water). Matter was classified by common physical properties (density, hot vs. cold, wet vs. dry). Comets were thought to be atmospheric phenomena, and part of the Terrestrial Realm (changes in the tail of a comet can be observed). The Celestial Realm consisted of everything in the heavens – stars, planets, etc. – and the fifth element, the “luminiferous aether.” The fifth element, according to Aristotle, was a transparent, solid but flowing, mysterious substance responsible...
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... Anthony Quick: List the big companies that have launched paradigm-shifting innovations in recent decades. There’s Apple—and, well, Apple. The popular perception is that most corporations are just too big and deliberate to produce game-changing inventions. We look to hungry entrepreneurs—the Gateses, Zuckerbergs, Pages, and Brins—instead. The rise of fast, nimble, and passionate venture-capital-backed entrepreneurs seems to have made slow-paced big-company innovation obsolete, or at least to have consigned it to the world of incremental advances. But Apple’s inventiveness is no anomaly; it indicates a dramatic shift in the world of innovation. The revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale enables big companies to stop shackling innovation and start unleashing it. September 2012 Harvard Business Review 45 The Big Idea The New Corporate Garage Three trends are behind this shift. First, the increasing ease and decreasing cost of innovation mean that start-ups now face the same short-term pressures that have constrained innovation at large companies; as soon as a young company gets a whiff of success, it has to race against dozens of copycats. Second, large companies, taking a page from startup strategy, are embracing open innovation and less hierarchical management and are integrating entrepreneurial behaviors with their existing capabilities. And third, although innovation has historically been product- and service-oriented...
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...Composition 1 Ms. Christine Kirsch 11/11/2010 The Development of UNIX that prompted the creation of the GNU Operating System and the Linux Kernel Without the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the field of Information Technology would have never seen the development of UNIX, the GNU Operating System, or the Linux Kernel. The Development of UNIX The late 1950’s saw the rapid improvement of electronics. With this, it became apparent that computers would soon be able to time-share by switching back and forth between multiple users quickly. Fernando Corbato at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computation Center led a team that created one of the first multi-user operating systems called the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) which was highly influential to the development of UNIX. (Diaz, Christopher, © 2007 ) In the 1960’s, AT&T Bell Labs, General Electric, and MIT conducted a joint research effort to build a next generation multi-user operating system called the Multiplexed Information and Computing System (MULTICS). The Bell Labs staff involved with MULTICS, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Joe Ossanna, and M. D. McIlroy, saw great potential in a communal environment enabled by a multi-user computer system, and they started looking for a way to preserve capability. In 1969, Thompson wrote a game on MULTICS called Space Travel that allowed users to pilot a spaceship around a simulation of the solar system and land on the planets and moons...
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...UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations Peer Reviewed Title: Technology and society : some insights on the development of metallurgy in the Southern Levant in the light of new dates of slag deposits Author: Ben-Yosef, Erez Acceptance Date: 01-01-2008 Series: UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations Degree: M.A., UC San Diego Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/03f2f3vx Local Identifier: b6636008 Abstract: An ongoing project for reconstructing the behavior of the geomagnetic field intensity during the last seven millennia has yielded several new dates for archaeometallurgical sites in the Southern Levant. These dates shed new light on the dawn of metallurgy in the region as well as on the quality of technological development and its relation to social and political structures. This paper introduces the methodology and concepts behind the archaeomagnetic project as well as the principles of the applied dating technique. In addition, the paper presents the archaeomagnetic results, discusses the alternative dating of several archaeometallurgical sites and explores the implication of these results on our understanding of the interaction between technology and society in the past. For the latter, the results particularly challenge the "Standard View of Technology" (Pfaffenberger, 1992), and suggest a complex, nonlinear evolution of copper industry in the Southern Levant eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of...
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... I will slightly demonstrate its impact on our budget and environment, Think of our firm, for example we have 4 servers operates in an air conditioned room, forty desktop stations, almost half of that number printers, besides we use only genuine cartridges, only hard copy documents circulates among the various departments as a method of communication, we print all the emails and attached them to the various document for various purposes. Now let us see what does this cost us and what does it has an impact on Mother Nature, using small mathematical calculation; the cost of running, maintenance, and air conditioning the Servers is around $13600 in physical hardware and $2644 in energy saving plus emission of 20 tons of greenhouse gases [1]. The printers cost $13000 yearly [2] .The old CRT monitors that we still using cost $6000 yearly (30 monitorX$200). In the other hand, by...
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...Lecture 2: What’s Out There? * Objects in the universe come in a hierarchy of scales and sizes: * Planets * Stars * Galaxies * The universe as a whole * These scales are so different from one step to the next that they are incredibly hard to comprehend all at once – no “everyday” experience to refer them to * If the Earth were a basketball how big would the moon be? Tennis ball * How many Earths would fit into the Sun? ~ 1 million * How many Jupiter’s would fit inside the Sun? 900 * How many Moons would fit inside the Earth? 50 * If we say the distance from here to Toronto (71 km) represents the distance between the Earth and the Sun, how far are we from Pluto? From Hamilton to Mexico, or from Hamilton to Calgary * If we say the distance from here to Toronto represents the distance between the Earth and the Sun, how far is the Earth from the Moon? From here to the edge of campus (Sterling and Forsyth) * If we say the distance from here to Toronto represents the distance between the Earth and the Sun, how big is the Earth? 3 meters * If we say the distance from here to Toronto represents the distance between the Earth and the Sun, how far is the Sun from the next nearest Star? 1/10th the distance from the Sun to Earth Lecture 3: The Earth: * Our starting point and only home * Both land and water * The only planet to have liquid water at its surface * Atmosphere: dense at sea level and then...
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...instead, then this is where you should be. This course satisfies one of the natural science courses (GNS) necessary for the completion of the General Education Curriculum (GEC) requirements. However, this course is not intended for non-science majors. Major Concepts in Biology (Bio 105), which may be taken with a laboratory component (Bio 105L), is also a GEC Natural Science course and is designed for students who are not majoring in the sciences. NOTE: YOU MUST BE REGISTERED FOR BIOLOGY 111 LABORATORY (BIO 111L) Required Items: • Text: Principles of Life, Hillis et al; 2012; first edition; you also need online access to BioPortal • Lab Manual: Principles of Biology I – A laboratory manual for students in BIO 111, 2013-2014 edition; (Lab coordinator is Mr. Joseph Bundy, Sullivan 304. Only he can help you recycle a previous lab grade, although you are welcome to ask me questions before seeing Mr. Bundy.) • Answer Sheets: All tests will be optically scanned multiple choice; YOU must provide your own 200-item answer sheets (Scantron Sheets Standard Form NA3100-6) and several #2 pencils and erasers. These can be purchased at the bookstore. They will NOT be provided. You should purchase at least 4, and they must be unwrinkled and unstained to use them. We may also have some brief class assignments for which you will need to provide your own notebook paper. • iClicker II: These can be purchased through the UNCG Bookstore, or...
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...Running head: NEUTRINO PARTICLES 1 Neutrino Particles Found to Break the Speed of Light Andrew Alexander Cuesta Lynn University NEUTRINO PARTICLES 2 Neutrino Particles Found to Break the Speed of Light Recently, a discovery that may revolutionize modern science was made in Europe. Modern age technologies have allowed for scientists to experiment through trial and error their most desired curiosities. Throughout history man has immensely improved his capability of speed and longed to reach the greatest velocity in the universe, the speed of light! Researchers and Scientist working for OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Racking Apparatus) recorded particles traveling faster than the speed of light of 299,792,458 meters per second. These ghostly subatomic particles are what scientist call neutrinos and they were evidently recorded traveling at 299,798,454 meters per second, which is faster than the speed of light by 20 parts per million. These experiments and tests were done in the physics laboratory in central Italy, under the mountain of Gran Sasso, and conducted about 15,000 times all with the same results. The results were neutrinos arriving 60 billionths of a second earlier with an error margin of plus or minus 10 billionths of a second. They experimented for three years before making public this amazing discovery on September 22, 2011. To have a better understanding, one must first be familiar with some basics of physics. Neutrinos are electrically neutral...
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...their part in building a greener tomorrow. They have been recognized by various organizations. Some of their key accolades are: 1 General Atlantic Echoing Green Fellowship, 2017 2 Urban Labs Innovation Challenge by University of Chicago, 2016: Winners 3 Awarded by American Society of Mechanical Engineers as top 3 hardware startups in Asia 4 Forbes 30 Under 30, Social Entrepreneurs category (-- removed HTML --) Growth Strategy Once the technology reaches scale, they believe the device could be installed on at least 70% of the DGs in the targeted areas. Thus, it will reduce total PM generation from all diesel generators in the area by ~53% (with 75% efficiency). Thus, in Delhi, it will reduce the total emission of PM2.5 by almost 8.4% (since DGs contribute to ~16% of PM2.5 emission). In parallel, they are also working on technologies to capture other components of emissions (NOx, SOx) and exploring other sources of pollution like furnaces, diesel vehicles and power plants. Thus, thus aim to continue to develop and disseminate technologies that can help save lives and the planet. No impact comes without facing and overcoming challenges. One of the major challenges they face, being a hardware based start-up, is that they required capital investment for production as well as R&D. However, going forward, as their technology scales, this will no longer be a concern. The second challenge they faced was good talent acquisition – but now they can say that they have...
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...How Geoengineering Works: 5 Big Plans to Stop Global Warming At first blush, geoengineering sounds like outrageous junk science. Surely there's an easier solution to the problem of global warming than technologically altering Earth's atmosphere, its cloud formations and even outer space. But when compared with the alternativedrastically reducing the amount of carbon dioxide blanketing the planet by changing the behavior of billions of people and thousands of industries, not to mention slow-moving governmentssome scientists are beginning to take the seemingly outrageous schemes a lot more seriously. Here are the mechanics behind five plans to jury-rig the Earth. 1. Copy a Volcano (Photograph by Tarko Sudiarno/AFP/Getty Images) A volcanic eruption can bellow many million tons of sulfur-dioxide gas into the atmosphere, creating a cloud that blocks some of the sun's radiation. By injecting the atmosphere with sulfur, some scientists believe they could likewise block solar radiation and potentially cool the planet. Sulfur dioxide reacts with water in the atmosphere to create droplets of sulfuric acid, says Rutgers University environmental scientist Alan Robock. Those droplets are particularly good at scattering the sun's light back out into space. And because sulfur doesn't heat the stratosphere as much as other aerosols, it wouldn't work against the cooling effect. Hydrogen sulfide is an even better candidate for atmospheric seeding than sulfur dioxide, but scientists would...
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...prepared for graduate-level studies, professional programs, or entry-level positions in the workforce. They will have an in-depth knowledge of their area of study and an attitude of service, ethical behavior, and willingness for hard work. They will have a renewed Christian faith, a lifelong desire for spiritual maturity, and a desire for lifelong learning about God’s creation. Physical Science I: The Earth GNSC 2313 Physical Geography GEOG 2313 Spring 2014 Lecture (all sections): M W F 12:30 – 1:20 PM in PEC 229 Lab Sections: 01 T 8:00 – 8:50 AM in NSW 111 02 T 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM in NSW 111 03 T 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM in NSW 111 Instructor: Dr. Amanda Nichols Office: NSW-HSH 202M Phone: x5420 E-Mail: amanda.nichols@oc.edu (best way to contact me) Course Websites: Blackboard (http://bb.oc.edu/) and MasteringGeology (http://www.masteringgeology.com) with Course ID: MGEOLNICHOLSSP14 Office Hours: M: 8-10 AM T: 1:30-3:30 PM W: 8-10 AM, 1:30-2:30 PM TR: 8-9 AM F: 8-10 AM Christian Worldview and Teaching Philosophy: Every scholar works within some sort of belief system. Since I am a Christian, I choose to examine Science through a Christian perspective. It is not my intention to indoctrinate or...
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...Forces and Motion For Students of Baldwin Wallace College Spring Semester 2011 Monday – Wednesday 10:00 – 11:15 am Room 139 Wilker Faculty Richard Heckathorn The materials for this course were organized and edited by Richard Heckathorn using materials from a program called Operation Physics and includes materials developed by him. The original OPERATION PHYSICS activity sequence to improve physics teaching and learning in upper elementary and middle schools was funded by the National Science Foundation. Original Material Copyright 1992 by American Institute of Physics Materials edited and photoduplicated with permission. FORCES & MOTION INTRODUCTION WORKSHOP LEADER’S TOPIC INFORMATION INTRODUCTION TO FORCES & MOTION An understanding of force and motion is fundamental to the study of almost all other physics-related topics. Yet it is a topic often overlooked or only cursorily introduced in elementary and middle school science, even though it is a topic typically identified for inclusion in the curriculum for these grades. A primary reason for this is that many teachers do not feel comfortable about their own understanding of the topic. Consequently, this may be the most needed of all of the OPERATION PHYSICS workshops. This workshop leader’s notebook is divided into two parts: PART ONE Motion Part One begins by introducing participants to the concepts of space and time....
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...permission. Part 1 Complete the WileyPLUS® GeoDiscoveries Earth Drag and Drop from Chapter 1. Label and describe each letter in the space below. [pic] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Part 2 Resources: • Minerals Drag and Drop (Chapter 2) • Virtual Rock Lab (Chapter 2) Complete the following WileyPLUS® GeoDiscoveries and answer the following questions: 1. What is the difference...
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