Category: General
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2.9 Simple machines in Physics
A machine in the broad sense of the word is any device designed to translate some form of energy into useful work. A “simple” machine is one where both the input energy and the output energy are mechanical in nature (i.e. both are forces acting along displacements). Examples of simple machines include levers, pulleys, ramps, wedges, gears,…
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14.6 Standing Waves and Resonance
Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line and load, reflections will occur. If the incident signal is a continuous AC waveform, these reflections will mix with more of the oncoming incident waveform to produce stationary waveforms called standing waves. The following illustration shows how a triangle-shaped incident waveform turns into a mirror-image reflection upon…
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4.2 How Routers Determine the Routes
While the idea of the collapsing many IP addresses into a single network number greatly reduces the number of individual endpoints that a router must track to properly route packets, each router still needs a way to learn the path from itself to each of the network numbers it might encounter. When a new core…
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1.4 Packets and Routers
The most important innovation that allowed messages to move more quickly across a multi-hop network was to break each message into small fragments and send each fragment individually. In networking terms, these pieces of messages are called “packets”. The idea of breaking a message into packets was pioneered in the 1960s, but it was not…
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Best 5 Spy Apps You Can’t Miss In 2019
There is nothing more disturbing in the world than wondering if you are being cheated upon by your partner. Do you feel that your partner is cheating on you? Well, those days are gone when you had to monitor your partner’s movements and activities physically. Now, you have spy apps to help you out! Technology…
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Classroom of the Future: Technological Progress
In spite of being a firm believer of the widely acclaimed saying that, “Every generation must think several steps ahead of their previous generations”, we often fail to ensure this very progress in our classrooms. The present world is progressing with the speed of light, or faster than so in fact. Even 20 years ago,…
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5 Tips for Choosing the Right Video Conference Service for Your Business
A video conference service can serve your business in a variety of ways, from conducting interviews to entire meetings entirely in a digital environment. There are hundreds of video conferencing services out there, as standalone programs or as additional features to other services such as web-based conference calling. Here are five tips for choosing the…
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Building a Blog in a Microblog-Obsessed World
Many bloggers are using Instagram as their online hangout place. As a result, they’ve created microblogs on the platform. It’s a quick, easy way to reach a bunch of people at one time. However, is it the only way? Truthfully, it’s not. Contrary to popular belief, blogging isn’t a lost art form. Think about all…
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How to Make Your Website Stand Out
According to recent research on internet usage, there are over half a billion websites that are accessible on the web. With this wide range of web pages out there, it is essential that you consider the different ways you can stand out from the crowd and engage with an internet audience. Here are five suggestions…
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Six Apps Which Are Absolutely Indispensable for A Business Traveler
Everybody loves travelling to new places and seeing new things but when it comes to travelling for work, it is a whole new ballgame altogether. While there is definitely a pleasure involved, it also has a lot more than that. For example, if you are travelling to India for a business deal, from getting your…
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29 Ideas To Help You Recycle Your Glass Bottles Cleverly
Who has never disposed off empty glass bottles in dust bin? The DIY enthusiasts know: our debris can be processed surprisingly in everyday objects, or pretty decorations. And glass bottles are a particularly aesthetic and practical to furnish your home. We have compiled a list of 29 ingenious tricks to turn your glass bottles into…
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42 Amazing Daily Use Objects For The Lovers Of Elephants
Animals are the Largest land mammal in the world and they fascinate many of us. This is certainly why designers do not lack imagination to ornate everyday items with the image of these pachyderms. The elephant lover can no longer live without these 42 accessories that are used in the day to day life. Some…
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This Amazing Luxury Hotel In Amsterdam Id Built In A Dockside Crane
You would have seen many different types of hotel with innovative themes to attract the tourists by surprising them. However, Faralda Crane Hotel located in Amsterdam, Holland is unique as it has been built in a crane at the shipping dockyard. Perhaps, it is the only hotel in the world that offers bungee jumping to its…
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Repotedly Apple Wants To Test Its Secret Car In This Abandoned Military Base
It has been recently reported that Apple is working on a self-driving car. Indeed, Apple would need to comprehensively test this car before the launch. This might be the reason why Apple has become interested in an abandoned military base near California. Named as GoMentum Station, the base has been officially converted into a testing site for new…
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Stratolaunch: World’s Largest Aircraft Would Soon Launch Satellites In Space
Stratolaunch would make its first official flight in 2016 to become the world’s largest functional aircraft. It is a project of the company Scaled Composites that is working on the development of the aircraft in the Mojave Air and Space Port located in California. This huge aircraft would have six engines to power it and…