Physics Essays

ABSTRACT Whether you’re using wireless internet in a coffee shop, stealing it from the guy next door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you’ve probably gotten frustrated at the slow speeds you face when more than one device is tapped into the network. As more and more people and …

The electric power transmission grid is one of the largest and the most complex networks built by the human being. The rapid growth of distributed energy resource(DER) technologies adds more stress for controlling the stability of the electric grid. New forms of electricity, like wind power and solar power, produce …

Should teenagers be required to do unpaid work Many young people work on a volunteer basis, and this can only be beneficial for both the individual and society as a whole. However, I do not agree that we should therefore force all teenagers to do unpaid work. Most young people …

Biological lipids are a chemically diverse group of compounds, the common and defining feature of which is their insolubility in water. The biological functions of the lipids are as diverse as their chemistry. Fats and oils are the principal stored forms of energy in many organisms. Phospholipids and sterols are …

Charles Asman, Adam Monahan and Malcolm McMillan Department of Physics and Astronomy University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Fall 1999; revised 2011 by Malcolm McMillan Given here are solutions to 5 problems on the particle nature of matter. The solutions were used as a learning-tool for students in …

In this scene, the soccer ball was kicked by a player with a tremendous force. The Lightning hand Goalie (Forth Brother) stops the ball, but fly back because of the reaction force.This scene is an example of bad physics because it is unrealistic that a human can actually take off/fly …

            Pakistan, or the “land of pure” among the Persians, is best described geographically by Ramos (1980) to be ‘located in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, extending from the northern Himalayan mountain ranges one thousand miles down to the Arabian Sea. It is bounded, on …

The Boom Discourse This introduction is intended to lead to other discussions and further analysis on the atomic bomb in U.S. history, which, apart from ending 70,000 lives on August 6th, 1945, was (and still is) also considered a necessary evil. This paper shall thus attempt to provide a qualitative …

In unabashedly polemic fashion, writer/director Chris Paine makes no pretense of a mixed message in his 2006 feature-length documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car?, over the issue of who exactly killed the electric car, a disappointing turn of events in light of the fact that electric cars could very well …

Introduction   The paper first discusses the difference between conductors, semiconductors and insulators. The paper goes on to explain what is static electricity, the danger situations caused by static electricity and offers some and information on the origin of the static electricity in different environment is also highlighted. The paper …