Essays Tagged: "different materials"

Comparison of the Gibson Les Paul to the Fender stratocaster

right, because they have the top instruments on the market.Every part of the guitar does something different, and each part can be made differently. The way these parts are made and what they are mad ... t components of the guitar are better for a certain application.This paper contains facts about the different materials that are used in quality guitars and how they affect the overall quality in rela ...

(5 pages) 54 0 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Ancient Mayan Calander

umans five times and destroyed them four times. Each time their gods created humans, they would use different materials to make "us", from dirt to trees to maize. Apparently it was maize that was the ...

(2 pages) 53 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

A cup - ordinaly essay

ll looking for new information from the ancient cup. Nowadays people create many types of cups, use different materials, and create many different sizes of cups. For example, people use a ceramic cup ...

(4 pages) 34 1 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Resistances affiliated with disease, temptation, and pain

a first glance at the world of resistance and how bodies both physically and emoptionally "resist" different materials feelings and even germs. It provides a first glance of the total spectrum of res ...

(2 pages) 27 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Deborah Butterfield Sculptures

1949- ), American artist, whose sculptures of horses have provided a means for her experiments with different materials and approaches to sculptural form. Her many sculptural incarnations of the horse ... of military officers on horseback, waving swords or flags. Each of Butterfield's horses expresses a different kind of energy. She constructed one series of horses from mud and sticks, as if the animal ...

(1 pages) 26 0 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

History of Sculpture in Western History

spatial art which deals with the various shapes of volumes. These volumes have come in the form of different figures throughout Western history, while most of them depicting human beings. Throughout ... course of the history of sculpture, various medians have been used to convey the artist's feelings. Different materials such as stone, marble, bronze and wood have been used throughout the centuries t ...

(5 pages) 41 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Macau Maritime Museum and the A-Ma Temple

world. Beside the maritime history, visitors can also enjoy the miniature aquarium which represent different under-water world. On the first floor there are past and present models of fishing. There ... ses near water. There are artifacts of early boats and seaside fortresses. Visitors can learned the different materials used in boat making from this floor. The third floor focuses on modern boats fro ...

(2 pages) 34 0 4.8 Dec/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Polymerization of Composite Resins: Dental Chemistry

A composite is defined as the combination of two or more chemically different materials that have properties better than when the compounds act alone. Resin composites, ...

(4 pages) 36 0 5.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

How the Bible Came to be

Several different materials were used in the writing of the Bible. The Bible was written on papyrus, which i ... with a sharp piece of iron, engraved clay tablets, and pieces of flat wood covered with wax. Different writing instruments were used. Chisels were used to engrave stones. A metal stylus was use ... tylus was used on clay and wax. Ink was a mixture of charcoal, gum, and water. Books took on different forms. Scrolls were among the first books, later to be followed by Codex book form. ...

(2 pages) 33 0 0.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Can we determine the densities of different materils?

Density Labhttp://home.att.net/~cat4a/images/archimedes2.jpgAim:Density is mass per unit of volume. Different materials have different densities. In our lab our main aim is to determine the densities ... pounds, the density can change with the amount of each material added. To conclude the densities of different materials can be determined.Application:Interesting fact about density:The planets that ar ...

(2 pages) 10 0 0.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The aim of our lab was to determine the specific heat of copper and to compare with the actual result and then find the experimental error.

.gifAim:Specific heat is the amount of heat per mass required to raise the temperature of 1ºC. Different materials have different specific heats. The aim of our lab was to determine the specific ...

(3 pages) 14 0 2.3 Sep/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

How electrostatics influence our lives

atics in our daily lives.Static electricity can be produced by rubbing together two objects made of different materials. Electrons move from the surface of one object to the surface of the other if th ...

(5 pages) 32 1 4.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

A look at post modern Architecture in California

Junk." More likely then not, Philip Johnson used this term to describe Moss for the way he combines different materials in his projects when he is exploring the complexity of his spaces. This term is ... paces. This term is not fully accurate; Moss merely wishes one to recognize or not to recognize the different materials in their functions and in their relationships to other materials. Los Angeles/So ...

(14 pages) 32 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The History of Guitars

use of early pickups. Makers started building larger flattop and arch top guitars and started using different materials and designs. Many people around the world are playing the guitar because it is e ... You can sit in your room and strum on your guitar for hours and still have fun.Gibson invented many different types of guitars that many people and even rock artists play. In the late 50's Gibson intr ...

(4 pages) 19 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Alzheimers, and Neuroimaging

Compare the different methods of neuroimaging. How are these methods alike and different?According to Argosy (20 ... s passed through the object or person onto a photographic plate. Pinel (2009) This beam is absorbed differently by different materials. Usually, hard materials such as metal and bone absorb it quite w ... over the scalp to pick up minute electrical charges. Pinel (2009) It is most useful in identifying different states of consciousness. Pinel (2009)Which of these would be appropriate for the diagnosis ...

(2 pages) 24 1 4.3 Nov/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The Future of Automobiles

sources which will burn cleaner and help the environment. The auto industry also have started using different materials which are more eco friendly materials when building their cars, they are lighter ... are trying to make theirs better than what they are now. Automakers are also trying their hands at different variations of the hybrid concept; pushing the limits to see what type of mileage they can ...

(9 pages) 49 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Materials in Practice - Tensile Strength Test

esting machine.In tensile test experiment, after knowing the measurement (thickness and width) of 4 different specimens, place one of the specimens to the grips. Start the test program, when the speci ... his experiment we can find the breaking load, maximum load, tensile strength and tensile modulus of different type of thermoplastic materials. Specimen with highest tensile strength is the strongest, ...

(5 pages) 12511 0 0.0 Dec/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Chemical Engineering

Roman and Greek Art

re very similar in the ways they were made and the materials that were used to make them are vastly different in many ways and have very different meanings in history.The Temple of Athena (427-424 BCE ... e Colosseum (72-80 CE)Even with all the similarities in these two works of art, they are still very different as well. They are however considered to be a classical form of art. They both are three di ...

(2 pages) 2 0 0.0 May/2012

Subjects: Humanities Essays