Essays Tagged: "Frequency"

Lowering the drinking age.

ter youngpeople from drinking. Studies have shown that lowering the legalage slightly increases the frequency that people drink, but notthe number of people who drink; people who do not drink beforeth ...

(2 pages) 253 3 4.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Sleep and Sleeping Disorders

he waking state is characterized by alpha waves(8-12 cycles/sec.) And low-voltage activity if mixed frequency.Stage on only last a few seconds with very low voltage(activity). Then it gives way to sta ...

(3 pages) 146 0 3.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Color perception principles

s, physicists were able to show that visible light resulted from electromagnetic waves of a cetrain frequency. The area of the electro-magnetic spectrum that we see as light lies between frequencies o ... ween frequencies of 360 nanometres and 760 nanometres. However an objects hue is rarely of a single frequency, or monochromatic, rather it is comprised of a number of frequencies, with a dominant one ...

(8 pages) 213 0 2.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Paper on The History of the Stringed Instrument to 1800

tened material (silk gut, metal or nylon) when plucked or bowed oscillates or vibrates at a certain frequency (cycles per second). The instrument vibrates along with the string and amplifies the sound ...

(19 pages) 180 1 4.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Turn Around, An essay which breaks down both the parable of the cave and Socrates four levels of reality

s emit sympathetic vibrations, the sound or force multiplies. Example: Two tuning forks of the same frequency are struck upon each other and held a few feet apart. The vibration is much stronger. Some ...

(6 pages) 121 0 4.2 Nov/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Lasers

way that it can also carry information. The information is encoded in the beam as variations in the frequency or shape of the light wave. The good part is that since light waves have much higher frequ ... ted at exactly the same moment but instead at random short bursts. Even if the light is of a single frequency that statement would also be true. A laser is useful because it produces light that is not ...

(3 pages) 40 0 4.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Types of unemployment

ooking for work they are counted as unemployed. The amount of frictionalunemployment depends on the frequency with which workers change jobs and the time ittakes to find new ones. Job changes occur of ...

(2 pages) 189 1 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Educational Psychology

ation of the laws of association. These laws: similarity, contrast, and contiguity, supplemented by frequency, are the beginnings to an experimental science (Piaget 9). As the science began to develop ...

(2 pages) 197 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Resonance

operty whereby any vibratory system responds withmaximum amplitude to an applied force having the a frequency equal to itsown.'In english, this means that any solid object that is struck with a soundw ... tube four times making the closed tube, one fourth the length of a soundwave. By a continuous sound frequency, standing waves are produced in thetube. This creates a pure tone.We can use this knowledg ...

(4 pages) 40 0 2.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Origions of the art of Asian Taiko drumming. including summary and how it can be related today.

With more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornograph ...

(9 pages) 52 0 3.4 Oct/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Guitar Pickups By, Ernesto Sanchez A complete guide to the anatomy history invention and impact f guitar pickups.Includes Bibliography.

transducer, which converts the tones produced by the string vibration into electrical impulses. The frequency of the electrical impulses is identical to the frequency of the vibrating strings.A pickup ...

(4 pages) 100 0 3.9 Jan/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Importance of Young Chicanas in the Traditional Quinceanera Ceremony - short essay

teenth birthday.The religious practice is symbolic of a young girl's transition into womanhood. The frequencyof the ritual in America is decreasing more and more every year. The majority of thecelebra ...

(1 pages) 48 0 1.9 Mar/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Varying rates of hydrolysis of the different isomers of Carbon, Hydrogen and Bromobutane.

must collide with a molecule of B before a reaction can occur. It has been shown that the collision frequency is proportional to the product. If every collision results in reaction, the rate of reacti ... ct. If every collision results in reaction, the rate of reaction will therefore equal the collision frequency. The rate of reaction is much less than the rate of collision.The collision theory was dev ...

(4 pages) 41 1 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Waves and How They Affect Life.

wave or a light wave it consists of the basic similar parts. These waves all contain wavelength and frequency. A longer wavelength will mean a smaller energy level, as to where a shorter wave length m ... waves. There are 4 major parts to a sound wave. These parts are Wavelength, Period, Amplitude, and Frequency. Wavelength is the horizontal height of one wave cycle. The period of a wave is the time t ...

(8 pages) 70 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

Why do we strive to be just? To live within the constraints of our laws or for the benefit of our soul?

PLATO'S GIFT.In our society murders, rapes, and other such atrocities are steadily increasing in frequency. We who pride ourselves on our efficient judicial system and competent police force still ...

(8 pages) 109 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

The use of excessive force by Police officers in the line of duty.

the ability and need to exercise coercion in performing some of their functions. With some unknown frequency and severity, law enforcement officers use various forms of verbal and physical coercion i ... on use-of-force policies and training have generally been prescriptive and have rarely reported the frequency with which officers use particular levels of force. The narrative accounts by independent ...

(12 pages) 324 0 4.2 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Liabilities in long distance endurance sports.

ly in last decade. This increased growth of sport-related businesses, as well as an increase in the frequency of laws involving sports participation in both professionals and amateur level.Certain lev ...

(10 pages) 47 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Write a 600 to 850 word research report for an approved topic in APA format with references and citations. Topic: Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Relationships

with heterosexual abuse. While there hasn't been enough research on the topic, it appears that the frequency and severity of domestic violence in homosexual couples is comparable to that of heterosex ...

(4 pages) 143 0 4.1 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

"Scientific Creationism"- It is an argument going for the theory of scientific creationism.

CreationismThe idea of the earth's organisms evolving over a long period is unsound because of the frequency of foreign objects from space would strike the planet. Evolution is impossible never in sc ...

(2 pages) 77 2 3.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

To investigate whether there is a difference in the frequency of stomata between green and white areas of leaves

To investigate whether there is a difference in the frequency of stomata between green and white areas of leavesPlanPredictionI predict that there will ... between green and white areas of leavesPlanPredictionI predict that there will be a higher stomatal frequency present in the green areas of the leaves as the green colour indicates the presence of chl ... ynthesis, and therefore do not have a great need for gaseous exchange, so there is a lower stomatal frequency.I think that the frequency of stomata will also differ in different species of plant. For ...

(12 pages) 41 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology