Fujita scale Essays

  • Tornado Alley

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    growing thunderstorm lifts the rolling air, forming vertical counter clockwise and clockwise vortices. The clockwise vortex usually dies and winds from the surface help cause the storms updraft to tilt. (Williams, p.186) T.T. Fujita, of the University of Chicago, developed a scale from 1 to 5, which is weakest to strongest. Tornadoes that have winds below 116 to 189 kilometers are classified as a F1 tornado and can cause trees to snap and windows to break. F2 tornadoes have winds of 181-253 kilometers

  • Joplin Tornado Essay

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    injuring 1150. With wind speeds of 322km/h, the tornado made a total cost of over $2 billion for the city. 8000 structures were destroyed, 2000 of which were homes. Many people were left homeless. The tornado held an incredible EF5 rating on the Fujita scale, measured from the amount of destruction. The tragic event lasted 38 minutes, from 5:34 pm to 6:12pm. Cool wind from the Rockies in Canada and warm wind from the gulf of Mexico formed into a supercell thunderstorm creating a tornado in Kansas.

  • Tornado Essay

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    are notorious for forming in the central part of the United States, and most of them do, but they can form also form in many other parts of the world including Russia, China, South Africa, and Australia. Tornadoes form from systems that have large scale patterns of circulation and are associated with violent thunderstorms which are filled with cumulonimbus clouds. It was once thought that they formed when warm moist air collided with cold dry air which was accepted because many form during the spring

  • The Worst Tornado that Hit Pennsylvania in 1985

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    not only the largest of the three towns hit in Northwestern Pennsylvania, but also the town that had needed the most aid as a result of the damage from these tornadoes. The tornado that had pulverized Albion was in fact, ranked as an F-4 on the Fujita scale (Hahn). To clarify, F-4 tornadoes can have winds ranging from 210 to 260 miles per hour and can without a doubt, have winds so powerful that objects such as cars and tractor trailers could be airborne for distances of 300 feet or less! "It was

  • Three Forms of Irony in Shakespeare's Macbeth

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    is no lie to be found in that. One can look back on the porter's hidden truths at the beginning of the scene, Porter: "Knock, knock! Who's there, i' the other devil's name! Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O! come in, equivocator." (II,iii,7-11) ... ... middle of paper ... ....  Criticism on Shakespeare s Tragedies . A Course    of Lectures on Dramatic Art

  • Dear Patrick,

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    have altered our bodies throughout the centuries with fashion, flashing womanhood like a neon sign. How we have created ourselves through dress, over and over again. There is one piece in particular that catches my attention, a long gown sewn with scales and feathers, myriad, iridescent, with the torso sculpted as a snake's belly. I don't know what to make of it. There is something in me that resists. I cannot identify myself with her. It's like looking into the mirror, that moment of confusion. That's

  • Self Taught Guitarist

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    information that could keep any guitarist of any level entertained for weeks. One of the websites is also very interactive, meaning that you can post your own music on the web site for others to see and play. The topics range from beginner’s lessons to scales and even reading music! Both websites use tablature to show their audience different compositions, practice exercises and other user postings. Tablature is a series of six lines which represent the six strings on the guitar. Each line has a specific

  • Comparison of Scales of Justice and Gattaca

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    Comparison of Scales of Justice and Gattaca The texts “Scales Of Justice” and “Gattaca” are two texts which allow the reader to witness a variety of interpretations and explore the relevant issues that are visible within contemporary society. Such issues as corruption within the police force, racism, sexual harassment, discrimination and manipulation of power are shown to give different interpretations of issues which plague today’s society and potentially our future. “Scales Of Justice” shows

  • Cryogenics: Is It Worth Waiting For?

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    help cure, because cold bodies perform functions slower (Kavaler 16- 17). Measurement of temperature is extremely important in cryogenics and the temperatures must be exact. The standard for scientific temperature measurement is the Kelvin scale. On the Kelvin scale absolute zero has a value of zero degrees on the thermometer. In theory no substance can be lowered to or below zero degrees Kelvin or absolute zero. Temperatures in cryobiology range from zero degrees Celsius--water freezes--to just above

  • Daniel Fahrenheit

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    Florentine thermometer scales varied no two were the same; makers marked the low point on the scale during the coldest day in Florence that year. They marked the high point during the hottest day. Fahrenheit wanted thermometers to be reproducible during the year and realized the trick wasn't using the coldness or hotness of a particular day or place, but finding materials that changed at certain temperatures. For seven years Fahrenheit worked on an alcohol thermometer scale, based on three points

  • Here Lizard Lizard

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    however, the snake lost its four feet altogether. The only sign that snakes ever had four feet is a remaining hip located within the rib cage. Paleontologists and herpetologists alike find it difficult to retrace the ancestry of snakes. Because of their scales, eggs, and subtle features of the skull, some scientists believe that snakes are descendants of lizards. However, this still does not explain how snakes lost their legs. In 1970, a three-foot-long creature, Pachyrachis Problematicus, was discovered

  • Protection From Abuse And Neglect

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    Protection From Abuse and Neglect I have recently been elected in a new statewide project in Minnesota to create and provide leadership in a small scale voluntary association for children . The focus of the small scale association is based on the United Nations General Assembly that adopted a Convention on the rights of the Child. It is a program to provide information and knowledge on the substantive right for "Protection from abuse and neglect" designed specifically for children. The right states

  • Monarch Butterfly

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    caterpillar is ringed with yellow, black, and white on each segment and has a pair of black fleshy tubercles at each end (Emmel, 1999). Monarchs smell with their antennae while they taste with their feet (Wexler, 1994). While the male monarchs have scent scales on their wings and "hair pencils" on their abdomens which secrete a scent (Emmel, 1999). The male scent is used during mating. The copulation of a male and female monarch can last from thirty to sixty minutes which is about average for most butterflies

  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

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    #     Quote      Reaction 1 pg. 8 Chap. 1: "The sounds of the new morning had been replaced with grumbles about cheating houses, weighted scales, snakes, skimpy cotton and dusty rows. In later years I was to confront the stereotyped picture of gay song-singing cotton pickers with such an inordinate rage that I was told even by fellow blacks that my paranoia was embarrassing. But I had seen the fingers cut by the mean little cotton boils, and I had witnessed the backs and shoulders and arm and legs

  • The Effect of Concentration on the Rate of a Reaction

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    experiment. The first thing we did or we do in any experiment involving acid is put on safety goggles so we do not ruin our eyes. Ø We then went and gathered up the equipment to complete the experiment. The list is below: Ø A Balance (scales) Ø A gas syringe (100 cm cubed) Ø 3m Hydrochloric acid Ø A conical flask. Ø A clamp stand Ø A Beaker Ø A Measuring cylinder Ø Three grams worth of marble chips Ø Stopwatch · We measured twenty millilitres of Hydrochloric

  • The Different Ways Organizations Can Be Structured and Operated

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    and managing financial resources. The advantages and Disadvantages of this structure are as follows: Advantages: In depth Development of expertice Clear career path within function Efficient use of resources Possible economies of scale Ease of coordination within function Potential technical advantage over competitors Disadvantages: Slow response time on multifunctional problems Backlog of decisions at top of hierarchy Bottlenecks due to sequential tasks Restricted

  • Actionmap Case Study

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    Should ActionMap start with visualization? Why or Why not? ActionMap should not start with map visualization as their key feature/differentiator because other platforms are like OurStates.org and WelcomeAmerica.org already doing an effective job of using interactive maps to related issues and related legislation to locations. Or, Flippable.org that uses maps to visualize red or blue states, voter turnout, and the effect of the Affordable Care Act on the number of people insured. While sites like

  • Essay About Love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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    relationship. If their relationship should end, the man should feel no grief. If the woman rejects the man initially, he should still feel no grief. In either situation, the man should simply start a relationship with another woman. “But in that crystal scales let there be weighed/ Your lady’s love against some other maid/ That I will show you shining at this feast, /And she shall scant show well that now seems best” (I.ii.103-106).  Benvolio's definition of love shows the audience two things about Benvolio:

  • Simple Voltage and Current Measurement

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    particular meter. For example, assume that the dc voltage scale on a particular multimeter is rated at ± 3% of full scale. This means that a reading on the 10V scale is accurate to (± 0.03%)(10) = ± 0.3V. Thus, a reading of 9V on the10V scale indicates a true voltage, which lies between 8.7 and 9.3 V. A reading of 1V on the scale would indicate a true voltage between 0.7 and 1.3 V. At this point, the error is ± 30%! Any reading less than 10% of full scale should be viewed with suspicion since most meters

  • Determining the Correct Equation for the Decomposition of Copper Carbonate

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    the volume of carbon dioxide produced is equal to what the equation suggests. Equipment: * Heatproof mat * Bunsen burner * Boiling tube * Bung * Delivery tube * Water bath * Measuring cylinder (250 cm³) * Digital weighing scales * Spatula * Clamp and stand * One molar copper carbonate (1 gram) * Two molar copper carbonate (1 gram)