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Friday, April 20, 2012

Inertia: Dynamics, Statics and Continuum

The Principal of Inertia is reflected in Newton's first law of motion.

The Principle of Inertia states that every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed on it. This law is evident throughout the observable world, from the smallest of pebbles to the most massive stars, and you can demonstrate it in a variety of ways.

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Solids and Liquids
- A hard boiled egg changes states from rest to motion more easily than a raw one.
  
  Take two eggs, roughly the same size, and hard boil one of them. You have changed the properties of one egg by changing its interior mass from a liquid to a solid state. Now spin both eggs with roughly equal amounts of force. The boiled egg starts spinning more easily than the raw egg. While the eggs are spinning, quickly stop the boiled egg and remove your hand. The boiled egg will remain at rest. Do the same with the raw egg and it will resume spinning at a slower rate once you let go. The liquid within the raw egg remains in motion due to inertia near the egg's two ends, and the solid matter within the boiled egg does not.
Resistance to Horizontal Motion
- Physics, not magic, keeps dishes in place on a table.
  
  Resistance to horizontal motion is easily illustrated by a variation on an old parlor trick. When a magician pulls away a table cloth without disturbing the place settings, he relies on inertia rather than magic to accomplish his trick. For this experiment, balance a wooden hoop or ring atop an empty glass bottle. Balance a pen cap on top of the hoop so that the cap rests directly above the bottle's opening. Quickly pull the hoop away, allowing the cap to fall straight downward. If you are fast enough, the pen cap will drop into the bottle's open end. This demonstrates the cap's resistance to horizontal motion, or its persistence in a state of rest, before it is propelled toward the bottle by the outside force of gravity.
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A Body in Motion
- Just as a body at rest tends to remain so, a body in motion stays in motion without the interference of an outside force. You can illustrate this property of objects by trying to drop a tennis ball straight down while you run horizontally. As you pass a marked target on the ground, let the ball go directly over the target. Because your running with the ball places it in a state of motion relative to the ground, it remains in that state after you let it go. So, although you release the ball directly over the target, its path is determined both by gravity and its current state of motion, and it continues to move forward. Thus, it misses the target.
Inertia and Weight
- Hang a heavy weight from a thread and attach another thread below it, so that one thread supports the weight and the other hangs freely. Begin pulling on the free-hanging thread until one of the two threads breaks, and observe the results. If you pull slowly, you increase the force on the top thread by adding the force of your pull to the force of gravity acting on the weight, and the top thread will break. When you pull quickly, you pull against the weight's inertia and its tendency to remain in motion works against you, breaking the bottom thread instead.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Leaning On History To Learn From History

How can history assist us in learning from repeated negative inactions and actions in life, human behavior as well, politics/government(s)? Even from the story 'Animal Farm'…how their revolution only benefited a selected few and the ironing of that is how that selected few became more and more like their foe in the revolution…the selected few behavior always seem to have ironings that were/are hypocritical. You know the beauty of the 'Constitution of the United States' is that it protects the interest(s) as well, human rights of the individual from harm by the people. This adds a new perspective to the meaning of inaction(s) and action(s) on the basis of the majority in general and by (political) party affiliation. How this concept can be viewed globally too. The next question might be what have we learned from history?

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Are You Conformed Or Transformed?

Are You Conformed Or Transformed?
Do you see the allegory message(s) from within the story that is entitled ’Animal Farm’? How concepts and behavior truly manifest(ed) therein modern governments of time past to present. One can’t help but, to ask the question is this pattern constant of human behavior? Why? This resolution came by way of an epiphany via the revelation of God’s word. The resolution is briefed via the books of Romans Chapter 12 and 2 Peter Chapter 1.

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Animal Farm Animal Farm First edition cover Author(s) George Orwell Original title Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Country United Kingdom Language English Genre(s) Classics, satire, educational animation Publisher Secker and Warburg (London) Publication date 17 August 1945 Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Pages 112 pp (UK paperback edition) ISBN ISBN 0-452-28424-4 (present) ISBN 978-0-452-28424-1 OCLC Number 53163540 Dewey Decimal 823/.912 20 LC Classification PR6029.R8 A63 2003b Preceded by The Lion And The Unicorn Followed by Nineteen Eighty-Four

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist,[1] was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, especially after his experiences with the NKVD, and what he saw of the results of the influence of Communist policy ("ceaseless arrests, censored newspapers, prowling hordes of armed police" – "Communism is now a counter-revolutionary force"),[2] during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin".[3]

The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, but the subtitle was dropped by the US publishers for its 1946 publication and subsequently all but one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime omitted the addition. Other variations in the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire.[3] Orwell suggested for the French translation the title Union des républiques socialistes animales, recalling the French name of the Soviet Union, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques, and which abbreviates URSA, which is the Latin for "bear", a symbol of Russia.[3]

Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005);[4] it also places at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is also included in the Great Books of the Western World.

The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia corrupt the revolution. While this novel portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution (and not the act of revolution itself), it also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if a smooth transition to a people's government is not achieved.

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1 Plot summary 1.1 Animalism 2 Characters 2.1 Pigs 2.2 Humans 2.3 Equines 2.4 Other animals 3 Origin 4 Significance 5 Efforts to find a publisher 6 "The Freedom of the Press" 7 Cultural references 8 Adaptations 9 Editions 10 See also 11 Notes 12 References 13 External links

Plot summary

Old Major, the old boar on the Manor Farm, calls the animals on the farm for a meeting, where he compares the humans to parasites and teaches the animals a revolutionary song, 'Beasts of England'. When Major dies three days later, two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, assume command and turn his dream into a philosophy. The animals revolt and drive the drunken and irresponsible Mr Jones from the farm, renaming it "Animal Farm".

The Seven Commandments of Animalism are written on the wall of a barn. The most important is the seventh, "All animals are equal". All the animals work, but the workhorse, Boxer, does more than others and adopts the maxim: "I will work harder". Snowball attempts to teach the animals reading and writing; food is plentiful, and the farm runs smoothly. The pigs elevate themselves to positions of leadership and set aside special food items, ostensibly for their personal health. Napoleon takes the pups from the farm dogs and trains them privately. When Mr Jones tries to retake the farm, the animals defeat him at what they call the "Battle of the Cowshed". Napoleon and Snowball struggle for leadership. When Snowball announces his idea for a windmill, Napoleon opposes it. Snowball makes a speech in favour of the windmill, at which point Napoleon has his dogs chase Snowball away. In Snowball's absence, Napoleon declares himself leader and makes changes. Meetings will no longer be held; instead, a committee of pigs will run the farm. Using a young pig named Squealer as a "mouthpiece", Napoleon announces that Snowball stole the idea for the windmill from him. The animals work harder with the promise of easier lives with the windmill. After a violent storm, the animals find the windmill annihilated. Napoleon and Squealer convince the animals that Snowball destroyed the windmill, although the scorn of the neighbouring farmers suggests that the windmill's walls were too thin. Once Snowball becomes a scapegoat, Napoleon begins purging the farm, killing animals he accuses of consorting with Snowball. Meanwhile, Boxer takes up a second maxim: "Napoleon is always right".

Napoleon abuses his powers, making life harder for the animals; the pigs impose more control while reserving privileges for themselves. The pigs rewrite history, villainising Snowball and glorifying Napoleon. Squealer justifies every statement Napoleon makes, even the pigs' alteration of the Seven Commandments of Animalism. "No animal shall sleep in beds" is changed to "No animal shall sleep in beds with sheets" when the pigs are discovered to have been sleeping in the old farmhouse. "No animal shall drink alcohol" is changed to "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess" when the pigs discover the farmer's whisky. 'Beasts of England' is banned as inappropriate, as according to Napoleon the dream of Animal Farm has been realised. It is replaced by an anthem glorifying Napoleon, who appears to be adopting the lifestyle of a man. The animals, though cold, starving and overworked, remain convinced that they are better off than they were when under Mr Jones. Squealer abuses the animals' poor memories and invents numbers to show their improvement. Mr Frederick, one of the neighbouring farmers, swindles Napoleon by buying old wood with forged money, and then attacks the farm, using blasting powder to blow up the restored windmill. Though the animals win the battle, they do so at great cost, as many, including Boxer, are wounded. Despite his injuries, Boxer continues working harder and harder, until he collapses while working on the windmill. Napoleon sends for a van to take Boxer to the veterinary surgeon's, explaining that better care can be given there. Benjamin the donkey, who "could read as well as any pig",[5] notices that the van belongs to "Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler", and attempts to mount a rescue; but the animals' attempts are futile. Squealer reports that the van was purchased by the hospital and the writing from the previous owner had not been repainted. He recounts a tale of Boxer's death in the hands of the best medical care. Shortly after Boxer's death, it is revealed that the pigs have purchased more whiskey.

Years pass, and the pigs learn to walk upright, carry whips and wear clothes. The Seven Commandments are reduced to a single phrase: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". Napoleon holds a dinner party for the pigs and the humans of the area, who congratulate Napoleon on having the hardest-working animals in the country on the least feed. Napoleon announces an alliance with the humans, against the labouring classes of both "worlds". He abolishes practices and traditions related to the Revolution, and changes the name of the farm to "The Manor Farm".

The animals, overhearing the conversation, notice that the faces of the pigs have begun changing. During a poker match, an argument breaks out between Napoleon and Mr Pilkington when they both play the Ace of Spades, and the animals realise that the faces of the pigs look like the faces of humans and no one can tell the difference between them.