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Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...determine its possible endings. The first declension Table 6 below shows the genitive, dative and ablative case endings of the first declension, using the noun puella (‘girl’) as an example. Almost all nouns whose dictionary entry ends in -a belong to the first declension, i.e. they form endings in the same way as puella. This group includes most names of Roman women,...
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...determined by its size. Small moons such as Phobos and Deimos (both of which belong to Mars) are lumpy and potato-like, while moons like our own and Jupiter’s Galilean moons are spherical. An icy body with a diameter less than about 400 km cannot pull itself into a sphere because its mass is not great enough to generate sufficiently strong gravity to overcome the...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...determine how Woolf achieved her aims by depicting images, memories, and language. It would be helpful, but not essential, to read Between the Acts for this course. Where passages from the novel are used in the course, the page numbers cited correspond to the Oxford World’s Classics edition of the text. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...determined by research evidence, Davies wondered how they were agreed upon. The answer was that the team were forced to rely on finding a consensus of opinion. Another team member, Professor Donald Klein, described how they came to a conclusion without the benefit of reliable data: We thrashed it out basically. We had a three-hour argument. There would be about twelve...
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...determined by the relative intensity in the two channels. The patent covered two possible ways of cutting the groove in the record to allow two separate channels to be recorded. This brings to a close the story of the record (cylinder and disc), the main source of recorded sound for nearly a hundred years. Apart from refining manufacturing techniques, little change to the...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...determining the distance between two places by car or any other everyday calculations, you will probably need to add some numbers together. Consider the following questions. How much is the bill altogether? How much will your holiday cost now that the total price of your airfare has increased by £50 due to fuel surcharges? Five more people want to come on the trip: What...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...determinant of how people learn, so before you read on, you should record some of what you are experiencing now as you begin the course. [Described image] Figure 2 Delivering information. It’s important to get these impressions noted down now, because new ideas and new impressions will quickly overlay the experience. What you are experiencing now will be re-interpreted...
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...determination of longitude. Valuable prizes were offered for a solution and eventually a satisfactory design was created by John Harrison (Figure 37). The story of this design and its social, political and economic contexts is related by Dava Sobel (2005) in her book Longitude. The new design certainly met a need. There were numerous innovations in the internal clock...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs