Essays Tagged: "measurements"

Basketball

is one of the most popular spectator as well as participant sports in the world.Court and TeamsThe measurements of American and international basketball courts differ slightly. The basketball court i ...

(6 pages) 154 1 5.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The Importance of Franklin Delano Rosevelt as a President and the great things he did for the United States of America during his Presidency.

ct on history or the impact felt by the world. Franklin Roosevelt's influence encompasses all these measurements. His life and legacy influenced the lives of millions in the past and is still affectin ...

(6 pages) 197 4 4.6 Jul/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Global Warming and Human Population

ips among humans, their activities and global temperature can be assessed by making the appropriate measurements and analyzing the data in a way that shows the connections and their magnitudes. Human ...

(11 pages) 382 2 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Field Study Report

y students were asked to take 20 minutes out of every lab period and make a one meter plot that all measurements will be taken from. This one meter area represents our entire sub-plot. Then students w ... al and faunal changesThe leaf and plant growth within the shrub area increased with every week that measurements were taken. Some examples of this would be the yellow flowering tree near the shrub are ...

(5 pages) 53 0 0.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Title: Conservation of Energy Lab Purpose: To verify that the total energy of an object doesn't change if the object hasn't done work.

to a vertical metal rod.2. Attach the photo gate to the computer, and open Mac Motion.3. Record all measurements, tube to ground, tube to photo gate.4. Go get a small piece of PVC pipe that will be dr ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Franklin Delano Roosevelt What is this about? Everything FDR did during his presidency.

ct on history or the impact felt by the world. Franklin Roosevelt's influence encompasses all these measurements. His life and legacy influenced the lives of millions in the past and is still affectin ...

(6 pages) 140 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

Pluto and its features. How it was discovered, its measurements compared to Earth, its surface, and its atmosphere

te, they named it Charon. Pluto and Charon are referred to as double planets. Some of the facts, or measurements, that we know about Pluto are from discovery efforts such as new inventions and long st ... or if it was cancelled.From these discovery efforts we learned some data on Pluto. Specifically the measurements compared to the earth. So, the distance of Pluto from the sun is 5,913,520 x 103 kilome ...

(3 pages) 76 1 4.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Theory of Knowledge.

rmation, when can information be accepted as true?Thinking scientifically is the ability to analyse measurements and observations and to understand these by using logical thought and reason, often wit ...

(5 pages) 106 0 4.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Science Midterm Notes for 6th graders.

ls, making a procedure, and testing our hypothesis4) Record and analyze data- writing down all your measurements5) Draw a conclusion- you compare your data with your hypothesis6) Control- is what it i ...

(7 pages) 34 0 1.7 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

Evaluating how accuracy and reliability could be improved in investigations and account of how to perform a successful experiment.

evaluated, reliability refers to the consistency of the information, validity refers to whether the measurements you are taking are caused by the phenomena you are interested in. This relationship bet ... omena you are interested in. This relationship between reliability and validity can be confusing as measurements can be reliable without actually being valid. However, they cannot be valid unless reli ...

(3 pages) 83 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

Explains history and simple properties of Density. Relates to a science project on why some crayons float and some sink using the scientific method.

King Heiro's crown was indeed made of gold and not silver covered with gold, Archimedes needed two measurements, volume and density.When a solid object is immersed in water, it moves the same amount ...

(2 pages) 57 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

The four goals of psychology

rom scientific research and critical thinking. Information is obtained from direct observations and measurements, making it an ideal way to learn more about behavior. Most people don't know why psycho ...

(3 pages) 221 0 3.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Customer value for B2C

nd recommendations for the report and for the B2C.This report aims to give suitable definitions and measurements for the SBU ---- B2C. From the report, it shows that different persons consider custome ... rt, it shows that different persons consider customer value in various ways, so there are different measurements. In this situation, when a company does a business, it must clearly understand customer ...

(11 pages) 560 1 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Assessing Blood Pressure

tum gathered from the assessment will be the patient's vital signs.A set of vital signs is a set of measurements that indicates the current status of the patient. Included in a set of vital signs and ...

(3 pages) 102 0 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Balanced Scorecard

In response to a concern that many senior executives were focusing exclusively on financial measurements such as return on investment and earnings per share to run their businesses, Robert Kap ... hort-term metrics. Utilization of a BSC allows management to shift their focus away from short-term measurements and provides a method for performance metrics to be tied more closely to a firm's strat ...

(3 pages) 848 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Force of Friction Lab, Gr.12 Physics

to a wooden ramp and tilting the ramp at a certain degree to cause the stopper / block to move. The measurements of the vertical distance and length of the wooden ramp would be needed in order to calc ... topped moving so the accuracy of the time is off. Lastly, due to the old, worn-out metre sticks the measurements made were not as accurate as they could have been because of the dull ruler. Improvemen ...

(5 pages) 39 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Counterproductive Workplace Competition Part II: Problem Analysis Paper

, we are better able to distinguish the symptoms, create multiple choices for solutions, and define measurements of success in problem resolution. By answering several key questions surrounding the pr ... n problem resolution. By answering several key questions surrounding the problem, Team B will offer measurements to determine if problem is solved, a possible solution to the problem, and alternate op ...

(2 pages) 86 0 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Why did company succeed or fail?

and failure of these companies ? How to distinguish whether a company is growing or shrinking? What measurements should be employed? According to Thompson L. John (2001, P. 135), "an organization is s ...

(13 pages) 375 0 3.6 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Resistance Of A Wire

the current present in the circuit (in series) and the voltage across the wire (in parallel). These measurements are then applied to this formula:Gradient = resistanceV = I x RThe other ways of writin ...

(3 pages) 24 0 4.3 Dec/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Explain what is meant by GDP and how it is measured

rticularly relevant for assessing how an economy is growing (or contracting over time) and thus GDP measurements over a number of years can be very useful for assessing an economy's performance over t ...

(6 pages) 274 0 4.6 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Rates & Indexes