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Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been...
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...writing these down before you read on. One student has said: I am never quite sure that I have understood what the figures mean. I tend to skip over the graphs or charts that I come across, hoping that I can get the information I need from the text. This is one course in a series of Student Toolkits; there are (or will be) others to help you with such things as effective...
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...write your response in the box below): What kind of data is being recorded? How were the public engaged and involved? How was data collected? Why are citizen scientists so important? What are some of the conclusions or results? How was this shared or disseminated? (Use the online version of this document to see text that you previously entered displayed here.)...Week 1:...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure 1: CartoonStock Figure 3: taken from: https://kienthuc.net.vn/...
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...writing a paper. So it’s actually transforming their understanding of glaciers. And similarly we actually filmed snow leopards extremely extensively on Planet Earth; it was one of our iconic images, and of course very few scientists ever get to see snow leopards in as much detail as we manage to cover them, and again, we’ve been able to give our rushes to behaviour...
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...writing these down on a piece of paper, so that she can take these notes with her when/if she goes to see her general practitioner (GP). To do this, try to write a few paragraphs in response to each of the questions below as if you are preparing notes for Mandy. At this stage use your own judgement and experiences, recording your initial thoughts, without worrying about...
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...write a little bit now, and I use it for research. Mostly recipes, it must be said, at the moment. But yeah, I use it for those sorts of things, to find things out. JESS I use the internet a lot. I have a Facebook. I rely on emails for everything. Facebook, which is obviously for friends, I use that a lot for work. I know that I've got jobs in the past that I wouldn't...
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...write v equals horizontal of magnitude two times Square root of three postfix plus vertical of magnitude two full stop [Described image] Figure 14 A vector and its components The vector bold v and its horizontal and vertical components form a triangle, as illustrated in Figure 14, and we discovered in Chapter 1 that vector sums form triangles. So this equation makes sense...