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Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...2 to help you apply. This session provides more guidance on application processes. It gives advice on writing a research proposal, approaching prospective supervisors and preparing for an interview....Session 1: Why do you want to do a PhD in psychology?: Introduction - If you have chosen to do this OpenLearn course, you are probably considering studying for a PhD in...
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...2 and consider to what extent you agree or disagree with the view of the authors. Extract 1 I have been teaching full time for over thirty years. During that span of time, one sees many, many students, and it amazes me how different they have been over time, and the inequality continues to grow. Compared with the students in the 1970s, today’s students are uneducated...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...2 shows how to calculate the ‘weighted mean’, which is a quantity related to the arithmetic mean. You will learn about some circumstances where it makes sense to calculate a weighted mean. Section 3 shows how to calculate one particular measure of spread for a batch: the ‘interquartile range’. It also shows some diagrammatic methods for representing the spread and...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...2 due to its similarities with a previously identified coronavirus (SARS-COV) that caused the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes (SARS) in the early 2000s (for more information about what a virus is see this article on OpenLearn). SARS-CoV-2 causes the disease COVID-19. Compared with SARS, the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 seems to spread more easily within the...
Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...2 Give an alternative notation for labelling each of these angles in the diagram below. (a) α (b) β (c) (d) ACD Answer (a) or CAB. (b) or BCA. (c) γ or DAC. (d) δ or ...Geometry: 1.2 How to measure an angle - To measure an angle you need a protractor. The protractor shown here is a semicircle that is graduated to measure angles from 0° to 180°. It is also possible...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...2 and Table 1. [Described image] Figure 2 Typical analysis for a bottle of mineral water values shown in mg l-1. What will the [H+(aq)] be in the water in Figure 1? [pH equation left hand side equals right hand side minus log open open cap h super plus left parenthesis aq right parenthesis close divided by mol dm super negative three close] (Equation 1) Rearranging gives...
Golden Globe Ocean Race: The power of the wind at sea and man’s use of this power over time
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race: The power of the wind at sea and man’s use of this power over time

...2 ms-1 (Beaufort Scale 2) to 16 ms-1 (Beaufort Scale 7) by how many times will wind stress increase? Select here to reveal answer... The wind stress will increase by a factor of 64. 16 ms-1 is eight times 2 ms-1 so the wind stress will increase by eight squared which equals 64. The wind speed, and consequently the wind stress driving the waves, varies around the globe and...
Introduction to differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differential equations

...2 the method of separation of variables. Section 3 looks at applications of differential equations for solving real world problems. Section 4 introduces the integrating factor method for solving linear differential equations. The final two sections summarise and revise the methods introduced in the previous sections and describe various other approaches to finding...