Essays Tagged: "Vibration"

Compare and contrast auditory system and optical system

make senses. Auditory systems involved in sound wave that transduced by drum ear into some kind of vibration that eventually gets converted back into wave what we perceive as noise. There are a lot o ...

(2 pages) 133 2 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

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

ughout my life time. I call it soul resonance. Bear with me here. When two objects emit sympathetic vibrations, the sound or force multiplies. Example: Two tuning forks of the same frequency are struc ... e: Two tuning forks of the same frequency are struck upon each other and held a few feet apart. The vibration is much stronger. Something basic about each object recognizes a similar quality in the ot ...

(6 pages) 121 0 4.2 Nov/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

An experiment to investigate the factors which affect the resistance in a wire.

ing atoms having gained this kinetic energy now vibrate more. The resulting increase in the average vibration kinetic energy is rise in temperature.Movement of charge carriers in any medium must neces ...

(7 pages) 90 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Numerology in The Odyssey How numbers are used throughout The Odyssey by Homer and how they all symbolize different events or characters in the book

n our lives, there is a positive and negative side of numbers as well. Each number has a particular vibration and its own "behavior"; hence, the meaning of each number can be looked at in terms of an ...

(10 pages) 97 1 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"HUMAN FACTORS IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE" The purpose of this study was to find how human factors in aviation maintenance affect the aircraft.

ion maintenance seriously affect the performance of an aircraft. For example, a pilot experienced a vibration while cruising at 8,000 feet; he shutdown the engine after noticing the oil pressure fall ...

(9 pages) 320 0 4.9 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

"All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren.

ld. Jack then links this idea to the idea that "if you touch it, however lightly, at any point, the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter" (188). The actions of any person will traverse through ... merican Electric Power Company to drop a suit against Southern Belle Fuel, another event that sends vibrations throughout the spider's web, returns from the past to haunt Judge Irwin's present after J ...

(6 pages) 40 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Courtship Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

viors without having any specific reason.In male fruit flies, all of their behaviors including wing vibration, waving, tapping, licking, circling, and stamping may be considered to be innate behaviors ... ope to make observations. Look for any behavior that the flies exhibit. Male behaviors include wing vibration, waving, tapping, licking, circling and stamping. Female behaviors include extruding, deca ...

(2 pages) 29 0 4.2 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Sound: More Than What You Hear

Sound is a sensation that we hear. A sound originates in the vibration of an object. This vibration, in turn, makes the air or some other substance surrounding t ... This vibration, in turn, makes the air or some other substance surrounding the object vibrate. The vibrations in the substance travel as waves, moving outward from the object in all directions. When ... owing the opening. Air from the lungs rushes past the tightened cords, causing them to vibrate. The vibrations produce the vocal sounds. The tighter the vocal cords are, the more rapidly they vibrate ...

(18 pages) 115 0 3.9 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Active suspention sistem.

suspension system in a vehicle is not entirely caused by human susceptibility to the discomforts of vibration, although isolation from the road-induced disturbances is a highly desirable design aim. M ... hicle suspension has the task of keeping the wheels as close to the road surface as possible. Wheel vibrations must be dampened and the dangerous lifting of the wheels must be avoided. For complex act ...

(14 pages) 99 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering

Technology Save My Life

to alert them of a fire. There are now a variety of smoke alarms on the market that combine sound, vibration, and strobe lights to alert those with limited hearing in case there is a fire in the hous ... aring impaired. Our lives depend on this device, without it we are at risk. The flashing lights and vibrations alert me in every room of my house. That is why it is very important for us to have these ...

(2 pages) 66 1 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

The History Of The Atomic Theory and Michael Farraday, including his discovery of the relationship between electricity and magnetism.

ble intersecting lines (see diagram 6). From this theory, Faraday felt that light was the motion or vibration of these lines of force. Faraday's most well known theory, occurring during his stu ... t well known theory, occurring during his study of sound, states that light was created through the vibration of lines of force. This scientist was not swayed by the common idea that the ether was an ...

(2 pages) 23 0 4.3 Oct/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Factual information abut EArthquakes... How do they originate? Might want to find out what makes them eventually stop... There are alot of scientific terms used, you m ay want to look up ....

ave a big mercalli rating. The other scale is called a richter scale. It measures the power and the vibration of the earthquake. If there was an earthquake out in the middle of a desert with a richter ...

(1 pages) 37 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Standing waves

Standing waves in a string: the speed with which the wave travels does not depend on the vibration that causes the wave, but on the properties of medium. In the case of string, the speed de ... he case of string, the speed depends on the tension of the string and the mass per unit length. The vibration does affect the wavelength of the wave.Let us consider a length of string attached at one ... fixed point, and that a wave reflected at B will not have diminished amplitude.A crest caused by a vibration at A will travel along the string be reflected from point B as a trough and then be reflec ...

(2 pages) 18 0 3.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Measuring the Speed of Sound. Physical Science lab write-up.

ending on the resonance.Sound travels in a wave. It is created by a vibrating object that creates a vibration in a medium such as air, and this vibration travels eventually hitting our ear, which in t ... ain that we interpret as sound. This is the same as using a water tube and tuning forks because the vibration of the tuning forks on the water in the tube makes sound and when the sound reaches its lo ...

(3 pages) 14 0 3.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Edgar allen poe

. As Poe describes, "Down- still unceasingly- still inevitably down! I gasped and struggled at each vibration…"(70) However, when we all wait to see the end, the narrator is saved by the rats. ...

(4 pages) 12 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

All the kings men 2

ld is like an enormous spider web and if you and if you touch it, however lightly, at any point the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the tingle and is drowsy no ...

(3 pages) 1295 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Now about surprises

e at people's birthdays, the "surprisee" never knows about it. Other times, they can feel it in the vibration of the person or people surrounding the person who is planning or orchestrating the event. ...

(4 pages) 1027 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Blades Of Grass

areful and drive slowly, because the front tire was worn in one area and the bike was riding with a vibration. So I tied on my dew rag, put on my sunglasses, fired it up and then took off like a three ...

(2 pages) 1190 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

How To Scratch Records

jumps is from improper hand technique. Because you are using equipment that is highly sensitive to vibration it is essential to keep you hand/wrist movement as smooth as possible. The key lies in han ...

(5 pages) 4 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Modeling to Produce Music

in this case is a vector with a lot of numbers, that vector must contain the sound. The sound is a vibration, a wave that we see in a sinusoidal way. In the vector we keep the values of the signal. A ... s quite. It biggest elongation will be 1 (to the right) and -1 (to the left):As the movement is a vibration, I have to keep these values each certain time interval, it would be like taking pictures ...

(11 pages) 1682 0 0.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Electrical Engineering