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Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...energy had only ever been produced this way for short bursts at a time – here is the context. The innovation is in applying springs to the provision of low-power electricity for consumer electronics. Baylis invented a mechanism that gave forty minutes of play from just twenty seconds of winding. The winding action coils a spring, attached to a gearbox, which is...
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...energy per coulomb of charge (J C−1)...An introduction to electronics: 2.2 Relationships between quantities - For many materials, current and voltage are directly proportional to each other over a wide range of values, with the resistance as the constant of proportionality, so voltage = current × resistance Such materials are said to obey Ohm’s law and are said to be...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...Solar System, demonstrates how she starts a literature review. As you read through, think about the process Julia describes and how you could apply the steps she takes to your EPQ research review. Starting a literature review. When you’re starting a literature review, where do you look for evidence? Any literature review requires a well-defined topic. Let’s assume the...
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...solar illumination, which casts shadows at the subtle edges of some of the individual lava flows that flooded this region [Figure 6] Figure 6 progressively more detailed views of the area where Apollo landed in July 1971[.] Top left: 200-km-wide area (Apollo 15 metric camera)[.] Top right: more detailed view of the central portion of Hadley Rille[.] The largest crater is...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...energy analysis and life-cycle assessment. If you are familiar with these concepts you will recognise the importance of defining how far one should extend the boundary of study. Figure 1 represents the range of risk scenarios within system boundaries. You will see spatial dimensions of the system boundaries implicit in Figure 1 in practical contexts when we review several...
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...energy the main drainage of London; and the other, to keep the Thames in the meantime from destroying the dwellers on its banks. - The Morning Chronicle, 20-07-1859 WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? If the Chronicle was hoping to only have to endure a couple of stinky summers, it was going to be disappointed - the sewer work would drag on until 1865, and the Victoria Embankment - the...
Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...energy to make them work. Likewise, Katharina Freud et al’s chapter on MOOCs draws attention to the ‘labour iceberg’ of MOOC delivery and the way the MOOC marketplace may lead to some voices, content and forms of knowledge being privileged over others. These perspectives draw further attention to the complexities of work within the neoliberal university context....
Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...energy, but there seems to have been little effort to use that potential for any purposeful national renewal. Trade unionists in engineering led imaginative campaigns for a future not based on arms sales, but they received little support from politicians locked into Cold War orthodoxies. And, until the crash, there was widespread acceptance among decision makers and...