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Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...English Oxford Living Dictionaries [Online]. Available at https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/ definition/ centrifuge (Accessed 4 October 2018)...Week 8 To the ISS, Moon and Mars!: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Tom Wilks and Helen Fraser. It was first published in October 2018. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...English astronomer William Lassell, Triton is thought to have been captured by Neptune from elsewhere in the Solar System. Where could this be? Well, look no further than Pluto. Triton has a very similar composition to Pluto, suggesting that they shared a common origin in the Kuiper belt. Triton is also one of the few moons in the Solar System known to be geologically...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...English word ‘tangible’, which means ‘capable of being touched’, comes from the same Latin word. The word ‘integer’ also comes from this Latin word (an integer is a whole, or ‘untouched’, number). The tangent to any curved graph at a particular point can be defined in a similar way. Because the tangent to a graph at a point has the same steepness as the...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...English. Sustainability We are passionate about promoting a culture and scholarship of environmental stewardship, living in harmony, and caring for the world in ways that meet our economic, social, environmental, and cultural needs. Underpinned by our world-renowned research, we will support the development of Wales as a bilingual learning country with a knowledge driven...
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...English Airways 1 Draw a bar chart to display this data. Remember to label your axis and give your chart a title. Answer Check with the following suggestions before continuing; The most flights on one day is four, so you must ensure that the vertical axis should start at 0 and go up to 4. You must label the horizontal axis with the names of the airlines and the vertical...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...English Oxford Dictionary defines as: ‘the process of causing something to absorb water’. This ‘something’ is the cells in our body (intracellular) and blood and the spaces between cells (extracellular). There is a lot of water in the human body. On average, it is 60% water in adult men and 51% in adult women, 75% in infants and about 55% in elderly people. There...
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...English Airways 1 Draw a bar chart to display this data. Remember to label your axis and give your chart a title. Answer Check with the following suggestions before continuing; The most flights on one day is four, so you must ensure that the vertical axis should start at 0 and go up to 4. You must label the horizontal axis with the names of the airlines and the vertical...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...English Literature, 8th edn, New York and London, Norton. Hawkins, E. (2016) Guy Stewart Callendar (1898–1964). Discovered global warming in 1938 & suggested that increase in atmospheric CO2 was responsible. Alter ego: @ed_hawkins [Online] Available at https://twitter.com/ GuyCallendar (Accessed 20 October 2016). Hawkins, E. and Jones, P. (2013) ‘On increasing global...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs