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Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...works with the pilot through each phase of flight. Many of us only know take-off, cruise and landing. There are actually seven phases of flight, beginning with preflight phase when the pilot and controller ensure that the predetermined route is understood and that a runway is clear for takeoff. The other steps in order are: Take-off, departure, en route (cruising at...
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Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...compounds (venir – revenir) and with all reflexive verbs (such as se laver). You will work on these later in the course, but in the meantime you should try to learn the six sentences shown below. Note that when être is used, the past participle agrees with the subject. For example, the basic past participle of partir is parti; in the singular this appears as parti (with a masculine subject) or partie (with a feminine ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...worked out. So if the interest rate received on the savings account is lower than that charged on the mortgage - which typically it is - this can be a good deal. In effect, your savings are earning interest at the mortgage rate. Usually, you can still draw your savings out - for example for a holiday or life’s uncertainties - then of course, the interest charged on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...works is illustrated in Figure 5. The communication process involves: the sender the message itself encoding the message into a form which can be transmitted, e.g. written, oral transmitting the message the receiver decoding the message action. [Figure 5] Figure 5 A linear model of communication Evidently, effective communication involves the ‘sender’ of the message...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...working lifetime of a scientist or the time since many modern astronomical methods were developed). Stellar evolutionary processes generally take far too long for anyone to see a noticeable change in their properties (although there are exceptions). It's possible, however, to observe many different stars, all at different stages of their evolution, and try to build a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The metagenomics revolution: an introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

The metagenomics revolution: an introduction

...works and how it can be used in a wide range of applications such as studying microbes, diagnosing disease, and contributing to biodiversity conservation...Metagenomics, the study of genetic material directly recovered from biological and environmental samples, is revolutionising biomedicine and environmental science. This free course will help you to learn how...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...work. When we bring the cores back from Antarctica or from the Arctic, we actually cut and subsample the ice here. So what I've got over here is actually one of the cores that we've drilled. And this is from a particularly deep core that we retrieved. And this is actually the bottom core. And we estimate that the age down at the bottom is 140,000 years. TAMSIN EDWARDS: So...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...work your way through this image gallery to get a taste of some of what’s to come. We start by giving you a sense of scale (Figures 3 and 4), then you look at some of Saturn’s moons, which are a particularly spectacular and varied family, and then you whizz past just a few of the other moons in our Solar System. The top of Figure 3 has a view of the Solar System...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs