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1. Your Microwave Oven:
A microwave oven emits microwaves that have just the right wavelength needed to cause energy level changes in water molecules. Use this fact to explain how a microwave oven cooks your food. Why doesn't a microwave oven make a plastic dish get hot? Why do some clay dishes get hot in the microwave? Why do dishes that aren't themselves heated by the microwave oven sometimes still get hot when you heat food on them?
2. The Changing Limitation of Science:
In 1835, French philosopher Auguste Compte stated that science would never allow us to learn the composition of stars. Although spectral lines had been seen in the Sun's spectrum at that time, it wasn't until the mid-19th century that scientists recognized that spectral lines give clear information about chemical composition (primarily through the work of Foucault and Kirchhoff). Why might our present knowledge have seemed unattainable in 1835? Discuss how new discoveries can change the apparent limitations of science. Today, other questions seem beyond the reach of science, such as the question of how life began on Earth. Do you think such questions will ever be answerable through science? Defend your opinion.
3. Perpetual Motion Machines:
Every so often, someone claims to have built a machine that can generate energy perpetually from nothing. Why isn't this possible according to the known laws of nature? Why do you think claims of perpetual motion machines sometimes receive substantial media attention?
4. Knowledge of Mass-Energy:
Einstein's discovery that energy and mass are equivalent has led to technological developments that are both beneficial and dangerous. Discuss some of these developments. Overall, do you think the human race would be better or worse off if we had never discovered that mass is a form of energy? Defend your opinion.
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The company used the cost recovery method
: In 2010, the Huxley Company, a real estate company, purchased some raw land for $60,000 and resold it on credit for $90,000.
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About the budget line
: Tom earns $15 per hour for up to 40 hours of work each week. He is paid $30 per hour for every hour in excess of 40. Tom faces a 20% tax rate and pays $4 per hour in child care expenses for each hour he works. Tom receives $80 in child support paymen..
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Do the actual numbers of goals per game follow distribution
: Do the actual numbers of goals per game follow this distribution? You might want to take several weeks' results toobtain more reliable results.
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Data analysis problems
: Go to the St. Louis Federal Reserve FRED database and find data on the M1 money supply (M1SL) and the 10-year Treasury bond rate (GS10). Add the twi series into a single graph by using the "Add Data Series" feature. Transform the M1 money supply vari..
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Explain how a microwave oven cooks your food
: A microwave oven emits microwaves that have just the right wavelength needed to cause energy level changes in water molecules. Use this fact to explain how a microwave oven cooks your food. Why doesn't a microwave oven make a plastic dish get hot?..
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Emergency and crise management
: Emergency/Crise Management, how this problem would be solve in terms of who has the problem and how they are affected, why this is a problem, what you can do to solve this problem using information technology and when this might be accomplished
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Budgetary cuts from the various levels of government
: What are the social and global economic impacts on health care in the present day relating to budgetary cuts from the various levels of government (local, state, and federal)?
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Government imposed new requirement that gasoline
: Recently the government imposed a new requirement that gasoline contain 10% ethanol; the ethanol is made from corn. This new government ethanol mandate has affected the market for cereal made from corn (such as corn flakes and Captain Crunch).
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Derive each fishermans best response function
: Two identical fishermen, Jill and Kevin, fish from the same lake. Since they are only two small producers, they cannot effect the price paid for their fish (P = 100), but they do influence each other’s costs. Write down the profit function for each f..
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