What Is an Electrical Inverter?
An electrical inverter is a device that can create an alternating
current from a direct current, allowing the current to go backwards and forwards instead of in only one direction. Find out how an electrical inverter works from a science teacher in this
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Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• demonstrate a strategy for using skills in problem solving over an extended period of time

• monitor progress and adapt the strategy as necessary, to achieve the quality of outcomes required when tackling a complex problem

• evaluate this overall strategy and present the outcomes from the work using a variety or methods.

Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• appreciate the concept of force, and understand and model forces such as weight, tension and friction

• model objects as particles or as rigid bodies, and the forces that act on an object in equilibrium

• use model strings, rods, pulleys and pivots in modelling systems involving forces

• understand and use torques

• model and solve a variety of problems involving systems in equ
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Edge Show 123 - Desired State Configuration (DSC) with PowerShell in the Datacenter | Edge

In this episode Symon interviews Kenneth Hansen (Principal Program Manager Lead) and Hemant Mahawar (Senior Program Manager) on the PowerShell team to discuss Desired State Configuration (DSC), and how it can be used in the datacenter. DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run.

The interview with Kenneth and Hemant begins at
Author(s): Symon Perriman

Why did our students choose the University of Memphis?
Students share why attending the University of Memphis is important to them. http://www.memphis.edu/give
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The week ahead: The Arab revolution

How radical reforms in Saudi Arabia are changing the Gulf and the wider Arab world. And in Turkey will President Recep Tayyip Erdogan be re-elected? Also, Anne McElvoy discusses free speech with comedian Corinne Fisher. Christopher Lockwood hosts 

Music by Chris Zabriskie “Divider” (CC by 4.0 UK)

Virtual Maths, Density, Mass, Volume calculator
Interactive simulation, density, mass, and volume calculator
Author(s): Leeds Metropolitan University

4.4.3 Identify ways of further developing your communication skills

Think about your overall level of communication skills and suggest areas where you feel you need to improve, based on the experience you have gained. You might find it useful to discuss with your tutor or another student or work colleague how you might do this. There may be changes you feel you need to make so that you can move forward, such as trying to extend the facilities and resources available to you, changing the way you study to make best use of the time you have, or focusing on impro
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21F.506 Advanced Japanese II (MIT)
This course covers Lessons 27 through 30 of Japanese: The Spoken Language by Eleanor H. Jordan with Mari Noda. The goal of the course is to continue expanding grammar and vocabulary by further developing four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The goal is to acquire the ability to use Japanese appropriately with increasing spontaneity emphasized, and to be prepared to become an independent learner to the point where you are capable of handling authentic Japanese by yourself, with
Author(s): Nagaya, Yoshimi