The Pendulum Paradigm

Author : Martin Beech
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781612337302

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The Pendulum Paradigm by Martin Beech Pdf

The pendulum is perhaps the simplest experimental devices ever constructed, and yet for all its simplicity it has historically enabled scientists to both investigate and enumerate gravity; the fundamental force that shapes the very universe. The pendulum has also allowed astronomers and geologists to measure the motion, mass and distribution of matter within the Earth, and its stately swing is at the very heartbeat of time. This book explores the many applications of the pendulum, from its employment as a fundamental experimental device, such as in the Cavendish torsion balance for measuring the universal gravitational constant, to its everyday, practical use in geology, astronomy and horology.

Author : Daniel J. Block,Karl J. Åström,Mark W. Spong
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781598291957

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The Reaction Wheel Pendulum by Daniel J. Block,Karl J. Åström,Mark W. Spong Pdf

This monograph describes the Reaction Wheel Pendulum, the newest inverted-pendulum-like device for control education and research. We discuss the history and background of the reaction wheel pendulum and other similar experimental devices. We develop mathematical models of the reaction wheel pendulum in depth, including linear and nonlinear models, and models of the sensors and actuators that are used for feedback control. We treat various aspects of the control problem, from linear control of themotor, to stabilization of the pendulum about an equilibrium configuration using linear control, to the nonlinear control problem of swingup control. We also discuss hybrid and switching control, which is useful for switching between the swingup and balance controllers. We also discuss important practical issues such as friction modeling and friction compensation, quantization of sensor signals, and saturation. This monograph can be used as a supplement for courses in feedback control at the undergraduate level, courses in mechatronics, or courses in linear and nonlinear state space control at the graduate level. It can also be used as a laboratory manual and as a reference for research in nonlinear control.

Author : John Winsor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780595249985

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Breaking the Sound Barrier by John Winsor Pdf

Arguments about musical aesthetics often degenerate into "shouting matchesy that end in stalemate. In Breaking the Sound Barrier, John Winsor clears the air by presenting evidence that some works are, in fact, objectively better than others. This is a particularly timely issue because a great deal of bad music is being performed in American concert halls right now and a great deal of good music isn't. If you believe that qualitative judgment in the arts is purely subjective, this book should persuade you to rethink your position. If, on the other hand, you think there is a genuine qualitative difference between one musical work and another, this book will provide you with relevant ammunition. Winsor defines music, presents some empirical evidence from the field of music psychology, relates that evidence to events in Western music history, and explains what works and what doesn'tyand why. He demonstrates that from the advent of notation to the present, music has, in fact, progressed and not merely changed. He then exposes some major errors in modernist and postmodernist writing that have disrupted music's progress and recommends remedial action for restoring the mainstream literary tradition. "This is a challenging and thought-provoking book." yDiana Deutsch, Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego. "John Winsor tackles big questions about music and our perceptions, coming at them head-on. He anticipates our reactions and goes a long way toward resolving nagging issues of modern music. A clear, honest book." yKile Smith, Curator, Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, Free Library of Philadelphia.

Author : Herb G. Bennett RA
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781728363714

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Design Science in the New Paradigm Age by Herb G. Bennett RA Pdf

"DESIGN SCIENCE in The New Paradigm Age" is a compendium in two volumes, with a series of workbooks and other tools to be used by creatives who can transform their "MINDSETS" and stimulate the renaissance of the new WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE, and INFORMATION (DATA, etc.) we are going to rebuild the world and our lives with. This is a MOVEMENT globally.[NT that t] It will inspire(s) lifestyles, careers, and professions. The core principles in the 'WIKI(TM)' are being used as the Corporate philosophy, value system, for cultural and practical products, projects, technologies, and development agendas HOLISTIC COMMUNITIES are being built with.

Author : Lee Bartel
Publisher : Canadian Music Educators' Association
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780920630907

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Questioning the Music Education Paradigm by Lee Bartel Pdf

Twenty-three contributors turn a critical lens on the dominant music education paradigm to examine how we teach, what we teach, for what we teach, what is expected of teachers and how we teach them, whom we should be teaching, and the very assumptions and structures of which we base our practice.

Author : Marc De Mey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226142590

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The Cognitive Paradigm by Marc De Mey Pdf

In this study of the cognitive paradigm, De Mey applies the study of computer models of human perception to the philosophy and sociology of science. "A most stimulating, and intellectually delightful book."—John Goldsmith "[De Mey] has brought together an unusually wide range of material, and suggested some interesting lines of thought, about what should be an important application of cognitive science: The understanding of science itself."—Cognition and Brain Theory "It ought to be on the shelf of every teacher and researcher in the field and on the reading list of any student or practitioner seriously interested in how those they serve are likely to set about knowing."—ISIS

Author : Sarah Bell,Adriana Allen,Pascale Hofmann,Tse-Hui Teh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319426860

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Urban Water Trajectories by Sarah Bell,Adriana Allen,Pascale Hofmann,Tse-Hui Teh Pdf

Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. Conventional arrangements for understanding and managing water in cities are being subverted by a range of natural, technological, political, economic and social changes. The prognosis for water in cities remains unclear, and multiple visions and discourses are emerging to fill the space left by the certainty of nineteenth century urban water planning and engineering. This book documents a sample of those different trajectories, in terms of water transformations, option, services and politics. Water is a key element shaping urban form, economies and lifestyles, part of the ongoing transformation of cities. Cities are faced with a range of technical and policy options for future water systems. Water is an essential urban service, but models of provision remain highly contested with different visions for ownership of infrastructure, the scale of provision, and the level of service demanded by users. Water is a contentious political issue in the future of cities, serving different urban interests as power and water seem to flow in the same direction. Cities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America provide case studies and emerging water challenges and responses. Comparison across different contexts demonstrates how the particular and the universal intersect in complex ways to generate new trajectories for urban water.

Author : Paul David Adkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726794113

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Dismantling the Paradigm by Paul David Adkin Pdf

2018: the world seems incomprehensibly absurd. Wars of all shapes and sizes pock-mark a planet that is already weary and feeble from a century of brutal exploitation of its resources and the steady flow of poisonous elements spewed back into the water, land and air after their consumption. Resource-greedy nations imperialistically wage or exploit wars in resource rich, mainly Islamic states of the Middle East and Africa. At the same time, Islamic fundamentalists unleash their own attacks on the increasingly illogical, globalising status quo, wielding violence within the heartlands of not just their Western enemies, but against the Islamic world they want to reform as well. Floods of refugees, fleeing these incomprehensible wars, pour into safer, more prosperous and democratic countries, that subsequently erect walls against the invasion of the outsiders. Involuntary migrants, victims of the same wall-builders' unscrupulously selfish meddling, become a human paradox, condemned to flounder in the purgatory of a political, economic and ideological no-man's land.Meanwhile, the USA elects an incomprehensible leader, President Trump, rendering the world's most emblematic democracy incomprehensible. This incomprehensible president has an incomprehensible partnership with Vladimir Putin's Russia which renders the entire world-scenario incomprehensible. Absurd man-child leaders in the USA and North Korea have their fingers on the buttons of nuclear weapons and scream petulant threats at each other. Quite understandably the planet's climate groans under the burdens of human absurdity, but capitalist Civilisation insists on the incomprehensible need for maintaining a steady increase in that same consummation of the planet ...We have been driving a giant, juggernaut bus, along a road leading directly toward a cliff edge. If we continue going straight, we will topple into an abyss. Obviously, we cannot continue the way we are going. To avoid annihilation, we have one of two choices: we can either turn left toward a green Utopia with clean, fresh water and air, or right into the murky, greyness of a choking, totalitarian Dystopia. It seems obvious to us which decision is the best one. And yet ... most of those on board started screaming to the driver to turn right ... and he has.But why ... ?Dismantling the Paradigm analyses the anti-human reality we live in today, the nihilistic spirit of our times and its threat to our existence in the world. It examines the acute crisis in which our civilisation finds itself, with the world and with humanity. It outlines a belief that we now have an obligation to revaluate our relationship with our civilisation in order to reconstitute our relationship with the world we are in. A belief that a radical change of priorities is absolutely necessary.

Author : Raouf A. Ibrahim,V. I. Babitsky,Masaaki Okuma
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642006296

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Vibro-Impact Dynamics of Ocean Systems and Related Problems by Raouf A. Ibrahim,V. I. Babitsky,Masaaki Okuma Pdf

The aim of this International Symposium on Dynamics of Vibro-Impact Systems is to provide a forum for the discussion of recent developments in the theory and industrial applications of vibro-impact ocean systems. A special effort has been made to invite active researchers from engineering, science, and applied mathematics communities. This symposium has indeed updated engineers with recent analytical developments of vibro-impact dynamics and at the same time allowed engineers and industrial practitioners to alert mathematicians with their unresolved issues. The symposium was held in Troy, Michigan, during the period October 1-3, 2008. It included 28 presentations grouped as follows: The first group comprises of nine papers dealing with the interaction of ocean systems with slamming waves and floating ice. It also covers related topics such as sloshing-slamming dynamics, and non-smooth dynamics associated with offshore structures. Moreover, it includes control issues pertaining to marine surface vessels. The second group consists of fifteen papers treats the interaction of impact systems with friction and their control, Hertzian contact dynamics, parameter variation in vibro-impact oscillators, random excitation of vibro-impact systems, vibro-impact dampers, oscillators with a bouncing ball, limiting phase trajectory corresponding to energy exchange between the oscillator and external source, frequency-energy distribution in oscillators with impacts, and discontinuity mapping. The third group is covered in four papers and addresses some industrial applications such as hand-held percussion machines, rub-impact dynamics of rotating machinery, impact fatigue in joint structures.

Author : Karen A. Mesce,Anna Lisa Stöckl,Susanne Hoffmann,M. Jerome Beetz,Manu Madhav
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832533086

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Naturalistic neuroscience – towards a full cycle from lab to field by Karen A. Mesce,Anna Lisa Stöckl,Susanne Hoffmann,M. Jerome Beetz,Manu Madhav Pdf

Author : Arie S. Issar,Mattanyah Zohar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540698524

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Climate Change - by Arie S. Issar,Mattanyah Zohar Pdf

This survey of the ancient levels of lakes, rivers and the sea, as well as changes in the compositions of stalagmites and sediments reveals an astonishing correlation of climate changes with the emergence and collapse of civilizations in the Middle East. The authors conclude that climate change has been the decisive factor in the history surrounding the origins of the "cradle of civilization".

Author : Mark Jarmuth
Publisher : Mark Jarmuth
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434849427

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The Nazi Paradigm by Mark Jarmuth Pdf

Nonfiction. 408 pages (includes notes and index). This is the book our two major political parties hope you won't read. Should you ignore their wishes, you'll discover how the path they have charted is leading the US into the same abyss Germany found in the 1930s. As we've traveled down this path, the signs we were headed in the wrong direction have been as recognizable as in that country as it languished under authoritarian rule. Free speech has been suppressed, democracy has been dismantled and politically correct views inimical to popular preferences have been imposed through judicial and bureaucratic decree. Read the book and find out more...... Learn the identity of our nation's first authoritarian leader, discover who were the forerunners of American fascism and who are the new despised minorities in the US and modern analogues to the German Jews of the Nazi Era. SUBJECT KEYWORDS: the secret history, national review online, jonah goldberg, facists, what is fascism, liberal fascism, about the bible, american fascism, nazis, the nazi party, german nazi, fascism in the United States, neonazi, nazi concentration camps, nazi camps, the nazi, what is nazi, nazism, hitler nazi, nazi and jews, nazi holocaust, wwii, worldwar2, second world war, the nazis, reich, america story of us, facist, hitler, hitler death, bible, about the bible, world war 2, world war ii, world war two, ww2, world war 1, world war 2, adolph hitler, nazism, holocaust, the holocaust, the third reich, national socialist, eva braun, auschwitz, concentration camps, where is auschwitz, what is auschwitz.

Author : Walter Lacarbonara
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441912763

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Nonlinear Structural Mechanics by Walter Lacarbonara Pdf

This book reviews the theoretical framework of nonlinear mechanics, covering computational methods, applications, parametric investigations of nonlinear phenomena and mechanical interpretation towards design. Builds skills via increasing levels of complexity.

Author : Terry Stocker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449022921

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The Paleolithic Paradigm by Terry Stocker Pdf

The Paleolithic Paradigm takes us one step further in the nature/nurture debate. Certainly a certain percentage of our behaviors are biologically based. However, culture has the power to override much in genetic commands. The Amish exemplify this, no matter how much "we" qualify them as "quaint." Painting with a wide post-modern paint brush, Stocker takes on a journey through four cultures to show how different people can be. He offers the analogy: our genetic structure is the framework of any house. How we cover and decorate that frame is often the product of ancient traditions. However, we are all products of the same cognitive processes, thus explaining why we take ideas put into our heads as children to the grave whether we accept them, reject them, or alter them. It is this commonality the author examines. Accordingly, he wants to know, if we understand our cognition processes, can we change out behavior at will?

Author : Michael R. Matthews,Colin F. Gauld,Arthur Stinner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 140203525X

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The Pendulum by Michael R. Matthews,Colin F. Gauld,Arthur Stinner Pdf

The pendulum is a universal topic in primary and secondary schools, but its full potential for learning about physics, the nature of science, and the relationships between science, mathematics, technology, society and culture is seldom realised. Contributions to this 32-chapter anthology deal with the science, history, methodology and pedagogy of pendulum motion. There is ample material for the richer and more cross-disciplinary treatment of the pendulum from elementary school to high school, and through to advanced university classes. Scientists will value the studies on the physics of the pendulum; historians will appreciate the detailed treatment of Galileo, Huygens, Newton and Foucault’s pendulum investigations; psychologists and educators will learn from the papers on Piaget; teachers will welcome the many contributions to pendulum pedagogy. All readers will come away with a new awareness of the importance of the pendulum in the foundation and development of modern science; and for its centrality in so many facets of society and culture.