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    four of them are not equal. The perpendicular sides are longer than the horizontal ones. The first time that catches your eye is a bog squared frame which captures the three fourths of the whole painting. All the sides of the frame have the same length. The color of the main frame is dark brown. The frame is three-dimensional towards the inside. The top side and the left one of the three-dimensional surface towards the inside have a lighter color, common to dark yellow mixed with light brown and highlights

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    17.) Although a plane tries to overcome drag, it actually creates it.(Wright Brothers Int, 2001,) Anything that flies will create drag, the bigger the object the more the drag. To overcome drag, an airplane is designed to be able to cut through the air.(NASA, 2015, Pg 1.) The best example of this is in the wings. Wings on a plane tend to have a design that is thin and sharp in the front and gets thicker as it moves down. Planes also have a very sharp nose(very front tip of the plane) along with a

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    Should Cars Be Safer Cars?

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    improvements. Car makers are constantly in search of improving cars to be better than the last. Can lighter cars be safer? Can the fuel economy benefit if the production of lighter cars were to increase? And lastly, what are alternative composites car makers can invest in? Making cars lighter will not only make them safer, but they will also greatly benefit the fuel economy. Even though we may have the technology to build lighter and safer cars, the cost affects puts this change on hold. Changing a cars

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    Why Our Boats Float

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    filled with air so the boat wouldn't sink. We had two different designs. Our first one had two bottom layers, with air in between. It had thick walls to keep out water. Our first boat stayed afloat because the air and buoyancy. Our second boat had a different design. It resembled a pouch filled with air with a hole in the top, like a piggy bank. The hole was used to insert pennies. This second boat stayed afloat because the pouch was filled with air. The air has a lesser density than water, helping

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    Allied Aircraft Facts

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    1. Purpose: To Provide Information Regarding Present Status of Available Allied Air Power and Options Following Landings. 2. Facts a. Since the commencement of formal hostilities with Germany in 1941, production of aircraft has drastically increased, exceeding initial estimates. In FY41, the number of heavy bombers produced was 282. This increased to 2,513 in FY42, and to 9,574 in FY43, with the majority comprised of B-17 and B-24 bombers. Fighter production has seen a similar increase. b. The

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    Helium Research Paper

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    containers. Helium is also an inert gas, it doesn’t react chemically with any element or form bonds. Helium floats because it is lighter than the air around us. A liter of helium weighs way less than a gram. It only weighs 0.18 grams. A liter of the air around weighs

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    Making A Bottle Rocket

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    First of all, we would make our rocket lighter by removing some of the materials from the payload. By doing this, the rocket would be able to stay in the air for longer. Also, we would improve the parachute by making it stronger. To do this, we would need to tape it better and make it sturdier. This will make the deployment easier which will make the rocket stay in the air longer. We would make all of these improvements so that our rocket would stay in the air longer without breaking the egg when it

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    present generation, the consumption of electricity is more than its production. Hence, huge amount of electrical energy has to be produced to meet the present requirements. There are a plenty of ways by which electrical energy can be produced which includes the usage of both renewable and non-renewable energy resources like solar energy, wind energy, nuclear energy etc. This proposal deals with the production of electricity by using Magenn Air Rotor System (MARS) which is one of an airborne wind energy

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    energy are essential to human development. The source of energy that would be best for NYC would be a nuclear-based energy source. Nuclear based energy source last longer, produce more energy per fuel pellet, and release fewer pollutants into the air than fossil-based sources. Nuclear based energy source would be best for NYC because it does not release as many pollutants as fossil fuels. According to source F, by Jonathan Thompson a 1000 megawatt coal-burning plants emits 100,000 tons of sulfur

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    else but I'm better at this alone thing than I've ever been. Tonight I pull on my board shorts and walk out of my rental onto the sand. I feel like something inside needs release and I take off running. Not that I'm one for exercise but this is more than that, its running away and running to and releasing energy and storing it up. Finally, spent, I stop at a dune rising from the mostly flat sand and let the breeze wrap around me, leaning into the push of air with a smile. Music drifts from somewhere

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