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...account, you must be aged 13 years or over. Adults may want to use their own OpenLearn account to supervise younger learners on the course, and assist with the experiments. All of the experiments can be carried out with items you would find in a typical kitchen, but the Introduction to Week 1 provides a full equipment list. This OpenLearn science course was produced with...

...account at all times when practising as an engineer. We accept risk as part of everyday life so there is a need to balance the risks of an activity against the benefits that it brings. This free course, Assessing risk in engineering, work and life, investigates how we can manage risks at work, in the home and in the wider community. Risk is tied in with accidents so it is...

...account for the Earth’s rotation round the sun and can be ignored for most engineering purposes.) Consider an object or element of something moving on or near the Earth’s surface directly from north to south, shown red in Figure 6. The something could be a chunk of sea, air, a ship, artillery shell, etc. The object has a velocity u and is at a latitude angle of theta...

...account for leap years), how many seconds are there in a year? Give your answer to three significant figures. Question 2 The smallest size scale of the scale comparator tool states that the speed of light in a vacuum is approximately 3.0 × 108 m s−1. Use the definition of a light-year from your notes, together with your answer from Question 1, to fill in the gaps and...

...account of an experience of conducting an inquiry/co-inquiry into your systems thinking in practice for managing change by using a STiP heuristic begin an inquiry into your own experience of practice that enables you to acknowledge, value and articulate your prior experience and its concerns...Week 1: Practising systems thinking in practice: 1 What do we mean by systems?...