...TRAINS General Concept: (1) Time taken by a train x mt long in passing a signal poster a pole or a standing man = time taken by the train to cover x mt (2) Time taken by a train x mt long in passing a stationary object of length y mt = time taken by the train to cover x+y mt (3) Suppose two trains or two bodies are moving in the same direction at u kmph and v kmph such that u > v then their relative speed is u-v kmph (4)If two trains of length x km and y km are moving in opposite directions at u kmph and vmph,then time taken by the train to cross each other = (x+y)/(u+v) hr (5) Suppose two trains or two bodies are moving in opposite direction at u kmph and v kmph then, their relative speed = (u+v) kmph (6)If two train start at the same time from 2 points A & B towards each other and after crossing they take a & b hours in reaching B & A respectively then A's speed : B's speed = (b^1/2 : a^1/2 ) EXERCISE 1. A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 9 seconds. What is the length of the train? A. 120 meters B.180 meters C.324 meters D. 150 meters 2. A train 125 m long passes a man, running at 5 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10seconds. The speed of the train is: A. 45 km/hr B. 50 km/hr C. 54 km/hr D. 55 km/hr 3. The length of the bridge, which a train 130 meters long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is: A. 200 m B. 225 m C. 245 m D. 250 m 4. Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on...
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...Otis Toy Trains is faced with the challenge of dealing with increasing labor costs. Until this point, Otis has been able to deliver a detailed and refined train series at a price customers are satisfied with. Chinese company JLPTC has announced its ability to produce the same train and cut manufacturing costs up to 60 percent. In order to survive, Otis needs to cut costs and evaluate the potential success of its strategic options. Otis could accept the proposal in its entirety. By doing this, Otis would be able offset the increasing labor costs within the U.S and additionally has the potential to make more profit on every unit sold. Otis would need enough information to ensure that cutting costs is not offset by additional expenses including logistics, customs fees, and JLPTC’s fees. Otis would also need to ensure that quality is maintained and can do so by setting quality standards that have to be met and will be continually tested. But accepting the proposal as presented by JLPTC would also mean outsourcing Otis’ design to a company who has stated they can produce it cheaper. Otis would be allowing a potential competitor control over the production of their product, but also access to their core competency, the unique, detailed, and accurate design skills. In doing so Otis is essentially giving away the unique capability that make customers chose them. Another option would be not accepting the proposal at all. Otis would need to analyze and investigate options to reduce their...
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...In the Case of Otis Toy Train and Joyous Luck Prosperity Toy Company, it may not be wise for Otis to go ahead with JLPTC’s proposal. Although increasing labor costs are a large problem for Otis and decreasing these costs by 40-60% may seem appealing, there are many underlying disadvantages to outsourcing that Otis needs to take into consideration. Part of the reason Otis has been so successful is because they are American based. Their headquarters are based in Minnesota and much of their productions facilities are located around that area. Also, many of Otis’s products are based on North American History. Should Otis decide to outsource their production, it is possible that they may lose a good portion of their customer base who takes pride in this purely American product. Otis must also take quality into consideration. Very often when companies decided to outsource their products the quality is downgraded which can upset many loyal customers. With China being so far away, it would be difficult for Otis to monitor the quality of the product during production to make sure it is up to par. Not only will geographical distance be a problem for quality control, but it will also cause many problems with communication. In a company with such a loyal customer base and with such authentic products, it is vital the communication be a number one priority. All aspects of the business should be on the same page at all times. If Otis should outsource to china they will find many...
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...Essay Thesis: Maglev trains will be the future of transportation providing benefits for the environment, society, and economic benefits. In our world today we have many problems. Problems that we are facing are environmental, social, and economic issues. This is due to the fact that traveling to work has become a hassle and when your using your car it also causes environmental damage. When people travel in their cars they have to fill it up with gas, which we have seen, gas prices increasing tremendously. This causes social problems because people don’t want to travel because it’s too expensive. The environmental problems we have are the fact that CO2 emissions are polluting over environment and causing harm to everyone. The result of this is global warming which is affecting our environment and society. Economic issues are the fact that importing and exporting oil is expensive. This is why we need to find an alternative. That’s why Maglev trains will be the future of transportation providing benefits for the environment, society, and economic benefits. Maglev trains use electromagnets, which make the train levitate. This causes the train to cause no friction and “may be a travel solution of the future”. This means that it doesn’t cause any noise pollution, which is great for ecosystems living around the track and also benefits society because then they don’t have to here the noise of the train, which most people find annoying. Personally I live right by the GO station...
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...The Great Train Robbery was one of the earliest silent films, made in 1903. The film begins with two masked robbers bursting into a railroad station office, and binding and gagging the railway dispatcher. From the very beginning The Great Train Robbery is off to a dramatic start. It instantly engages the viewer. A person viewing this film for the first time in 1903 would have been hooked from the start. The film is about twelve minutes long and has a fully developed narrative and distinguishable character types: robbers, posse members, railway workers and supporting characters. The robbers’ motives are obvious from the start. After forcing the dispatcher to give a false note to the conductor, the dispatcher is knocked out and, the robbers are then free to board the train and rob it. After the robbers board the train we see a worker who is alarmed by a sound. He peeks through the door's keyhole and sees the two robbers. The worker quickly locks the strong box, and throws the key out of the open side door. He draws his revolver and crouches behind the strong box just as the robbers break down the door and enter. After a brief gunfight, the messenger is killed. Actors are filmed at a distance on large stages that give the feeling of being seated in a large theatre. The actor’s gestures are dramatic and outsized as can be seen with the dramatic deaths in the film. At first the film has the feel of a stage play but very quickly changes, for example, through the window of the...
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...Otis Toy Trains Explores the Supply Chain Otis Toy Trains of Minneapolis, Minnesota was a landmark company since the 1900s, which had to go through a change in target market that lead to the problem of high labor cost. JLPTC offers Otis Toy Train a deal to take over a huge portion of production, promising a decrease of 40 to 60 percent of manufacturing costs. Otis should take the deal because it serves as the best solution for the company’s current issue. However, the company must do so with great caution. I have decided to complete a SWOT analysis to see the gains and risks. The Strengths given by choosing JLPTC is lowering of manufacturing cost which will enable distribution of resources to other department. Weakness that I see is the additional expenses and risks that the company might run into while working with JLPTC. Opportunities can be brought in by our business partner who has a better understanding of foreign market that we can expand into and the new ideas that might be brought in. Threat is the reason why the company must be very careful. When we think in terms of logistics, language barrier, quality of good, and reliability, there are a lot of risks in this decision. Logistics risk is huge change of the supply chain within the company. The company should do or hire a professional to construct a well organized logistics planning. Language barrier is a big part when domestic company decides to partner with foreign company because of the lack of communication or...
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...How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated action fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. It is the sequel to the 2010 computer-animated film How to Train Your Dragon and the second in the trilogy. The film is written and directed by Dean DeBlois, and stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig with the addition of Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou and Kit Harington.[4] The film takes place five years after the first film, featuring Hiccup and his friends as young adults as they meet Valka, Hiccup's long-lost mother, and Drago Bludvist, a madman who wants to conquer the world. DeBlois, who co-directed the first film, agreed to return to direct the second film on the condition that he would be allowed to turn it into a trilogy. He cited The Empire Strikes Back and My Neighbor Totoro as his main inspirations, with the expanded scope of the The Empire Strikes Back being particularly influential. The entire voice cast from the first film returned, and Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou signed on to voice Valka and Drago, respectively. DeBlois and his creative team visited Norway and Svalbard to give them ideas for the setting. Composer John Powell returned to score the film. How to Train Your Dragon 2 benefited from advances in animation technology...
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...Wagonways and tramways Earliest traces The earliest evidence of a wagonway, a predecessor of the railway, found so far was the 6 to 8.5 km long Diolkos wagonway, which transported boats across the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece since around 600 BC.[1][2][3][4][5] Wheeled vehicles pulled by men and animals ran in grooves inlimestone, which provided the track element, preventing the wagons from leaving the intended route. The Diolkos was in use for over 650 years, until at least the 1st century AD.[5] The first horse-drawn wagonways also appeared in ancient Greece, with others to be found on Malta and various parts of the Roman Empire, using cut-stone tracks. Railways began reappearing in Europe after the Dark Ages. The earliest known record of a railway in Europe from this period is a stained-glass window in the Minster of Freiburg im Breisgau dating from around 1350.[6] In 1515, Cardinal Matthäus Lang wrote a description of the Reisszug, a funicular railway at the Hohensalzburg Castle in Austria. The line originally used wooden rails and a hemp haulage rope, and was operated by human or animal power, through a treadwheel. The line still exists, albeit in updated form, and is probably the oldest railway still to operate.[7][8] Early wagonways Minecart shown in De Re Metallica (1556). The guide pin fits in a groove between two wooden planks. Wagonways (or 'tramways') are thought to have developed in Germany in the 1550s to facilitate the transport of ore tubs to and...
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...1. Vostick Filter Company is a distributor of air filters to retail stores. It buys its filters from several manufacturers. Filters are ordered in lot sizes of 1000 and each order costs $40 to place. Demand from retail stores is 20,000 filters per month, and carrying cost is $.10 a filter per month. a. What is the optimal order quantity with respect to so many lot sizes? b. What would be the optimal order quantity if the carrying cost were $.05 a filter per month? c. What would be the optimal order quantity if ordering costs were $10? 2. To reduce production start-up costs, Bodden Truck Company may manufacture longer runs of the same truck. Estimated savings from the increase in efficiency are $260,000 per year. However, inventory turnover will decrease from eight times a year to six times a year. Costs of goods sold are $48 million on annual basis. If the required rate of return on investment in inventories is 15%, should the company instigate the new production plan? 3. The Hedge Corporation manufactures only one product: planks. The single raw material used in making planks is the dint. For each plank manufactured, 12 dints are required. Assume that company manufactures 150,000 planks per year, that demand for planks is perfectly steady throughout the year, that it costs $200 each time dints are ordered, and that carrying costs are $8 per dint per year. a. Determine the economic order quantity of dints. b. What are the total inventory...
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...The Crew Lead is also to retrain any employees that fail to meet our QC standards. Crew Lead reports to EML LLC’s Supervisor. 3. Pre-requisites EML, LLC Crew Lead will utilize EML, LLC documents to include time sheets, MSDS books, temporary WO and assigned purchase orders and all associated documents for GSA contract # GS-07P-11-JU-D-0024. Crew Lead has been issued out a copy of our contract and shall reference it at all times. 4. Responsibilities The procedure outlined applies to all EML, LLC employees/ custodians. Items needed to be covered on the training sessions are as follow; • Train custodian employee on using the proper process on this S.O.P. Start point: New Hire Training and Existing Employee Re-Training Sessions • Company policy book • Union book • Safety Signs • Eml Contract Safety Signs Train them to post specific signs when they are working. If they will be mopping floors in walkways, break rooms, restrooms or hallways, make sureCrew Lead will they post a 'wet floor' sign...
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...| |2014 | | | | | |Submitted to: | | |TAKRIMA SAYEDA | | |Lecturer | | | | | |University Of Dhaka | | | | | | | | |Course: THM 325 | |[BANGLADESH RAILWAYS – THE LIFE LINE OF THE COUNTRY] | | | | | |Prepared By: GROUP – ‘Knockout Knights’ | | | Group name : `Knockout Knights` Course code : THM - 325 Member’ |Name ...
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...networks in the world. Indian Railways operates both long distance and suburban rail systems. [pic][pic] Fig: Shows the top railways network in world Indian railway is one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting 17 million passengers and more than 2 million tons of goods daily. IR is the world's largest commercial, with more than 1.6 million employees. The railways traverse the length and breadth of the country; the routes cover a total length of more than 63,327 km (39,500 miles). As of 2008, IR owned about 225,000 wagons, 45,000 coaches and 8,300 engines and ran more than 18,000 trains daily, including about 8,984 passenger trains and 9,387 goods trains. Annually it carries some 4.83 billion passengers and 492 million tons of goods. Of the 11 million passengers who climb aboard one of 8,984 trains each day, about 550,000 have reserved accommodations. Their journeys can start in any part of India and end in any other part, with travel times as long as 48 hours and distances up to several thousand kilometers. The challenge is to provide a reservation system that can support such a huge scale of operations — regardless of whether it's measured by kilometers, passenger numbers, routing complexity, or simply the sheer scale of India. The main challenges in front of the Indian railways are: • Provide a reservation system that efficiently serves more than half a million people each day • Ensure maximum uptime so reservation/ticketing/enquiry...
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...Intermodal transportation is the use of two or more modes of transport to freight. Increasing the use of intermodal transportation will efficiently escalate freight movement by using shipping containers to easily transport from one location to another, and by using multiple modes of transport that can reduce costs for the shipper and end user. Intermodal transportation had slow beginnings. The concept and use of intermodal transportation did not see its beginnings until the 1960s. Before then cargo was moved at times separately and by hand. According to Donovan (2000), The task of shifting cargo between modes still required that boxes, barrels, and bags in which goods were packed be unloaded from one carrier and then reloaded on the train, ship, or truck that would carry them on the next leg of their journey (p. 1) This was a slow process that required large amounts of labor working at a dock yard or railroad depot. By having these items move separately it slowed the process which would result in higher costs and additional time. Tomlinson (2009) stated “One analysis in the late 1950s concluded that 60-75% of the cost of transporting cargo by sea was made up of portside costs, while another study of a...
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...Overview of the Project – Part -1 Name of the Project: Illustrative journal and creative writing using Poem as a medium Project Objectives: When students complete this project, they will be able to… * Use prior knowledge to comprehend * Identify factual details from the text * Analyze poems using various comprehension strategies * Use creative writing tools to draft their class poem * Explore and evaluate the different railway systems across the world * Use technology to research about new topics and enhance learning * Use connections from real life to add and subtract numbers * Appreciate rhythm in poems by exploring the nuances of the same * Co-create tune for the class poem * Interview and learn from peers, family, relatives and community members * Design an independent project and co-create the same based on interviews, readings and research. Integration of Other Functional/Academic Skills: Problem Solving, Critical thinking/ Analysis are required throughout all the lessons. Each one of these fundamental academic skills can be integrated with the other to produce a project-based outcome. With respect to integration of subjects, it would be Mathematics, History and Geography along with Reading fluency, Comprehension, Speaking and listening, and Writing. There will be use of technology, music and dance throughout the project. Estimated time and brief outline of the project: The estimated time of the project would be around...
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...Luis Obispo, CA 93410 David Ripplinger TRF Program Vice President Dept. 2880, P.O. Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 March 08, 2014 Dear Mr. Ripplinger, The report following this letter is intended to inform the reader about the current CA High Speed Rail project and the more recently proposed Hyperloop project by Elon Musk. We also compare the two after giving the information and allow the reader to decide which they think is the better option. The report is split up into four main sections. The first section consists of the civil aspects, followed by the energy required for each system to run, then the third section explains the environmental impacts and finally the fourth section compares the pricing of both high speed trains to current modes of transportation. Of course none of this could have been done without the contribution and dedication of my classmates Hannah Bieszczat, Ryan Buckley and Devin LeBlanc. I hope you enjoy this report and if you have any questions please feel free to email me. Thank you. Respectfully, HYPERLOOP VERSUS VARIOUS FORMS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INCLUDING HIGH SPEED RAIL Undergraduate Engineering Students California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Last Updated: March 2014 Abstract In an attempt to meet the growing demand of quick transit as well as alleviate rising fuel prices, the state of California has approved and began construction on a new high speed rail mass transit system between...
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