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Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...researchers are investigating inflation...Unsolved problems in cosmology: 1 Cosmology today - Modern cosmology is based on the understanding that the Universe began in an event called the hot big bang, in which time and space were created, about 13.8 billion years ago. The Universe has cooled and space has expanded as time has progressed since then. The evidence for this...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...centre of the galvanometer would deflect to one side or the other if any current was detected, but show no deflection in the absence of a current. [Described image] Figure 13 An early galvanometer showing magnet and rotating coil Figure 14(a) shows a circuit made of four resistors forming a Wheatstone bridge. Its purpose here is to show whether there is any current...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Gŵyl Seicoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Gŵyl Seicoleg

...children unable to read, The Guardian, 22.03.21). Yng ngoleuni'r effeithiau negyddol posibl hyn, mae ein rhaglen Cyfarwyddyd o Bell ar Iaith a Llythrennedd (RILL) yn cynnig ffordd effeithiol o helpu plant oed cynradd y DU i wneud (ail)gynnydd sylweddol yn eu sgiliau llythrennedd, tra'n gallu ymdopi â chau ysgolion ymhellach. Yn hollbwysig, mae RILL yn cymryd ymagweddau...
The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...children, composed, championed Robert’s works (which were relatively unknown at the time), and taught extensively. After the death of Robert in 1856, Clara Schumann spectacularly revived her career as a pianist and supported her family by pursuing one of the most celebrated concert careers of the nineteenth century. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) is arguably the...
Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...children playing; Punch and Judy, or the brash cacophony of amusement arcades. Whichever of these, and a host of other sounds, are brought to mind we clearly imagine the sounds of the seaside in a variety of ways. In turn this reflects our manifold uses and encounters with the coast and the ways in which these are invested with cultural meaning encapsulating our hopes,...
Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...children are hungry and cry, Wherever people ain’t free, Wherever men are fighting for their rights, That’s where I’m gonna be. This account of the presentation of criminals in twentieth-century American folk music has revealed a strong thread of imitation in the presentation of the outlaw figure. On other occasions, characters and narratives are transformed in...
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...Centre for Public Understanding of Finance - PUFIN). The update benefitted immensely from comments/feedback by several experts from the MSE. This course was created by The Open University with contributions and collaboration from MoneySavingExpert.com. The content unless otherwise stated in the course or in the acknowledgements below (or identifiable as third party...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...Research Institute, 2010, p. 47)...Estimating the cost of equity: 1.3.1 Estimating the future equity risk premium - There are three ways to estimate the future equity risk premium: using historical data and assuming that the past equity risk premium is a good indicator of the future equity risk premium asking experts for their opinion of the future equity risk premium...