Euclidean distance Essays

  • Essay On Acceleration In Basketball

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    Basketball is one of America’s favorite pastimes. While a great defense wins championships, watching players on offense is arguably the most exciting part of the game. Transition offense, either a quick inbound and go or getting a rebound or turnover and swiftly moving up the court, is an important part of the game for teams to try to take advantage and score. In order to be successful offensively as a guard, players must be able to be somewhat quick, agile, and have court vision; power forwards

  • Essay On Dispersal

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    ability to colonise new areas (Holt 2003). Predicting how species will respond to environmental change such as their ability to track optimal habitats and adapt to changing conditions, depends on understanding these mechanisms will be important. The distance that an organism travels can tell us something about their preferred habitat, how they reproduce as well as being a primary determinant of their likelihood to survive. Dispersal between populations influences the likelihood of colonisation and extinction

  • Biometrics, Security and Wrinkled Fingerprints

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    B. Wet and Wrinkled Finger Dataset To test the working of algorithm wet as well as wrinkled (WWF) dataset is used. In Wet and Wrinkled Finger (WWF) database . Data from 30 people for all ten fingers using a multispectral fingerprint scanner from Lumidigm (Venus series) was collected. 300 fingers were treated as separate identities. Multispectral sensors were specially used as they were effective for application . They were designed to function when the fingers are wet with dripping water, and they

  • Conic Sections in Taxicab Geometry

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    teacher presented us mathematic web page and taxicab geometry was one of the topics discussed there. I looked at the topic before and it encounter problems, which seemed interesting to explore. I started with a basic example, just to compare Euclidean and taxicab distance and after that I went further into the world of taxicab geometry. I explored the conic sections (circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola) of taxicab geometry. All pictures, except figure 12, were drawn by me in the program called Geogebra

  • What Is Euclidean Geometry?

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    Euclidean Geometry is the study of plane and solid figures based on the axioms and theorems outlined by the Greek mathematician Euclid (c. 300 B.C.E.). It is this type of geometry that is widely taught in secondary schools. For much of modern history the word geometry was in fact synonymous with Euclidean geometry, as it was not until the late 19th century when mathematicians were attracted to the idea of non-Euclidean geometries. Euclid’s geometry embodies the most typical expression of general

  • Case Based Approach

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    Chapter 3 Case Based Distance Approach to Vendor Evaluation 3.1. Case-Based Decision Analysis Approaches There has been much progress on case-based approaches to MCDA in recent years. As suggested in [14], the case set may include (1) cases on which the DM has made a decision in the past; (2) fictitious but realistic alternatives; or (3) a representative subset of the actual set of alternatives, A. A main advantage of case-based reasoning is that “decision makers may prefer to make exemplary decisions

  • Leibniz's Theory of Space in the Correspondence with Clarke and the Existence of Vacuums (1)

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    Leibniz's Theory of Space in the Correspondence with Clarke and the Existence of Vacuums (1) ABSTRACT: It is well known that a central issue in the famous debate between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke is the nature of space. They disagreed on the ontological status of space rather than on its geometrical or physical structure. Closely related is the disagreement on the existence of vacuums in nature: while Leibniz denies it, Clarke asserts it. In this paper, I shall focus on Leibniz's

  • Euclid

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    In the third postulate, Euclid states that a circle may be drawn with any center and distant (that is radius.) A compass, for example, demonstrates this postulate. When one draws a circle using a compass, one is plotting all the points a certain distance ‘r’ from the center point. In the next postulate, all right angles are equal to one another. In the last postulate, it states that through a given point not on a given line exactly one line can be drawn paralle...

  • The Importance of Geometry in the Construction Industry

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    mathematicians have competed to contradict each others findings in relation to geometry, thus exploring new areas which have advanced the study of geometry. Such advancements have lead to the development of various types of geometry such as Euclidean, Non- Euclidean, Riemannian, Algebraic and Symplectic Geometry. This paper focuses on the contribution and significance of geometry on the construction industry. According to Business Dictionary, “Construction Industry is a sector of national economy engaged

  • Euclid's Contributions to Geometry

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    and study of catoptrics, conics, geometrical distances and vectors. Especially, his thirteen books of the treatise ‘Elements (Stoicheia)’ has defined the most area of geometry and later divided the geometry as Euclidean and non-Euclidean. The book of Elements discusses plane geometry (books I-IV and VI), number theory (V and VII-X), and solid geometry (XI-XIII). Amongst all thirteen books of the treatise, the most well-known topics are the Euclidean algorithm and the five axioms, or postulates.

  • Differences in Geometry

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    two separate branches, Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry. Being based off different postulates, theorems, and proofs, Euclidean Geometry deals mostly with two-dimensional figures, while Demonstrative, Analytic, Descriptive, Conic, Spherical, Hyperbolic, are Non-Euclidean, dealing with figures containing more than two-dimensions. The main difference between Euclidean, and Non-Euclidean Geometry is the assumption of how many lines are parallel to another. In Euclidean Geometry it is stated that

  • Exploring Kinesthetic Learning through Art and Geometry

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    the standard. Today’s lesson is on translation, a geometric transformation that is essential to proving the similarity of circles. Ask if anyone can define translation. Translation simply means that an object moves/slides in the same direction and distance. (Elicit examples from students.) One circle moves on an axis (translation) that passes through both origins. After it translate/slides then it can be resized through dilation. • Visuals: A Word Wall that supports the academic language of the lesson

  • Breaking the Bonds of Oppression in Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers

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    incompetent and frivolous. The only identity they have is that associated with their husbands. They stay at the farmhouse to complete their repetitive and exhausting chores. The wives have little or no contact with the other people because of the distances between farms. Glaspell uses her female characters to rebel against the inequalities that women face and to prove that women are competent and when pushed too far --strike back. The male dominant society that is condescending, controlling, denies

  • Wedding Speech from the Father of the Bride

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    here today to celebrate the marriage of our daughter Claire to Frank I would like to welcome Frank’s Mum, Margaret, partner Don, sister Helen and husband Simon as well as all our relatives and friends. I know a few have travelled considerable distances to be here. Thank you, its very much appreciated. At this point I would like to mention three important people who are not here today. Firstly Frank’s Dad who died a few years ago when Frank was a boy. Of course I never knew Dave but I have recently

  • The Natural Environment and the Human Condition

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    but is not defined by human society. As far as we know, the beginnings of humanity date back to 3.5 million years ago. Homo erectus (the earliest form of man) was roaming the earth, in Africa, with his hands free enabling him to travel great distances and utilize basic stone tools. The species Homo erectus lived in small, hunter-gatherer groups. Because of constant movement, in search of vegetation and game in addition to a small population, he was unable to leave a lasting impact on the environment

  • The Economics of Human Exploration and Migration

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    The Economics of Human Exploration and Migration Somewhere between insatiable curiosity and voracious appetite for the accumulation of wealth lies the motivation for human travel. These two goalposts through which every explorer, merchant and conquistador to roam this planet sailed do not paint the idealized portrait of natural human character, but they nonetheless do accurately depict the aims of those ambitious enough to change the world and therefore merit a place in the halls of history

  • Technology in Transportation

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    needed to move vegetables and grains from the farms, to storage, and then to the cities to feed the populace. Transportation has always been one of the backbones of every great civilization, without the ability to move goods long distances, your 'culture' was only the distance you could go conveniently to get what was necessary for survival that you could not produce. The industry boomed during the railroading system and hasn't slowed since. First, there were ships and horse-drawn carriages, then cars

  • Eyesight

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    understand things that we cannot touch, taste, smell or hear. 20/20 vision does not mean perfect eyesight. 20/20 vision simply means that at a 20 ft. distance a person is able to see a certain letter than an average eye should be able to see at that distance. You can have 20/20 vision and lack the abilities to use your two eyes together as a team, to judge distances, to identify colors and to coordinate your eyes with hand and body movements. About four in ten people have "perfect" vision. There are also

  • Rhythmic Procedures and Rudimental Drumming

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    entertainment and both communication and entertainment together. These are; (1) the use of a drum as a speech surrogate or a "talking drum". These methods of playing were used for communicative purposes and often codes were used to be played over long distances for the sending and receiving of messages. (2) The use of both iconic and symbolic dimensions of communication within music and dance. Throughout many festivals in Africa, depending on the event being celebrated, drumbeats are used to dictate the

  • The Physics of Turbo Chargers

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    compressor, turbine, intercooler, wastegate, and the BOV. Matter is assumed to be composed of an enormous number of very tiny particles which are indestructible. Gas is a state of matter. These tiny particles are separated by relatively large distances, which interact elastically. This large space between the particles make it easy to compress a gas. Which gives low mass to volume ratio. Particles must be in continual motion. These particles are very fast (usually about 500 meters per second).