University of Michigan Law School
The University of Michigan Law School (Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Started in 1859, the school has about 1,200 students. The Law School has 81 full-time teachers.
Springville, Iowa
Springville is a city in Iowa in the United States.
St. Ansgar, Iowa
St. Ansgar is a city in Iowa in the United States.
St. Anthony, Iowa
St. Anthony is a city in Iowa in the United States.
St. Charles, Iowa
St. Charles is a city in Iowa in the United States.
St. Donatus, Iowa
St. Donatus is a city in Iowa in the United States.
The city of St. Donatus is named after Saint Donatus of Muenstereifel. It used to be called Tetes de Morts, which is the name of a creek that flows through the town.
The geographic coordinates of St. Donatus are (42.360590, -90.538790).
St. Donatus is in Jackson County, Iowa.
The United States Census Bureau says that the city's land takes up .
In the year 2000, the census showed that there were 153 people living in St. Donatus. These people lived in 53 households and were from 41 families. The average household earned $39,750 each year.
St. Lucas, Iowa
St. Lucas is a city in Iowa in the United States.
St. Marys, Iowa
St. Marys is a city in Iowa in the United States.
St. Olaf, Iowa
St. Olaf is a city in Clayton County in the state of Iowa, United States.
St. Paul, Iowa
St. Paul is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Stacyville, Iowa
Stacyville is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Stanhope, Iowa
Stanhope is a city of Hamilton County in the state of Iowa, United States. About 490 people were living in Stanhope as of 2000.
Stanton, Iowa
Stanton is a city in Iowa in the United States. It is in Montgomery County.
Stanton is located at .
Stanwood, Iowa
Stanwood is a city in Iowa in the United States.
State Center, Iowa
State Center is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Steamboat Rock, Iowa
Steamboat Rock is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory in San Diego County, California, 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Mount Wilson Observatory, on Palomar Mountain in the Palomar Mountain Range. It is owned and run by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The observatory is made up of four main telescopes: the 200 inch (5.08 m) Hale telescope, the 48 inch (1.22 m) Samuel Oschin telescope, the 18 inch (457 millimeter) Schmidt telescope, and a 60 inch (1.52 m) reflecting telescope. Also, the Palomar Testbed Interferometer is located at this observatory.
The word "palomar" is from the Spanish language, meaning "pigeon house". The name may be because of the many pigeons that can be seen in the spring and autumn months on Palomar Mountain, or it may be because of an old pigeon-raising building built there by the Spaniards.
Addison, Texas
Addison is a city in Dallas County, Texas (United States). About 14,160 people were living in Addison as of the year 2000. It is really a city, but it calls themselves a town. Addison has an area of 4.4 square miles.
Law school
A law school (also known as a school of law or college of law) is a school mostly for legal education.
European Southern Observatory
The European Southern Observatory (ESO, officially called the "European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere"), is a research group for astronomy, made up of fourteen countries from Europe. Made in 1962 to give state-of-the-art facilities and a view the Southern Sky to European astronomers, it is well known for using some of the largest and most advanced telescopes in the world, such as the New Technology Telescope (NTT), the telescope that helped create active optics technology, and the VLT (Very Large Telescope), made of four 8-meter class telescopes and four 1.8-m Auxiliary Telescopes.
Legal education
Legal education is the education of people who wish to become legal professionals or those who wish to earn their law degree.
Wind farm
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same area. These turbines turn moving air into electricity. A large wind farm has several hundred wind turbines, and covers an area of hundreds of square miles. A wind farm may also be offshore.
Many of the biggest onshore wind farms are in the USA. The Roscoe Wind Farm is the largest onshore wind farm in the world, producing 781.5 MW of power, followed by the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center (735.5 MW). The Thanet Offshore Wind Project in United Kingdom is the largest offshore wind farm in the world at 300 MW, followed by Horns Rev II (209 MW) in Denmark.
Slide rule
The slide rule, or "slipstick", is a mechanical analog computer. The slide rule is used mainly for multiplication and division, and also for "scientific" functions such as roots, logarithms and trigonometry, but usually not for addition or subtraction.
There are many different styles of slide rules. They are usually linear or circular. They have a standardised set of markings (called scales). These scales are used for mathematical computations. Some slide rules have been made for special use, as for aviation or finance. Those slide rules have special scales for those applications, as well as normal scales.
William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 1600s. The slide rule is based on the work on logarithms by John Napier. Before electronic calculators were developed, slide rules were the tool used most often in science and engineering. The use of slide rules continued to grow through the 1950s and 1960s even as digital computing devices were gradually introduced; but around 1974 the pocket calculator made the slide rule largely obsolete and most suppliers left the business.
In its most basic form, the slide rule uses two logarithmic scales to allow rapid multiplication and division of numbers. These common operations can be time-consuming and error-prone when done on paper. More complex slide rules allow other calculations, such as square roots, exponentials, logarithms, and trigonometric functions.
Mathematical calculations are done by aligning a mark on the sliding central strip with one on one of the fixed strips.
The relative position of other marks can then be observed. Numbers aligned with the marks give the approximate value of the product, quotient, or other calculated result.
The user determines the location of the decimal point in the result, based on mental estimation. Scientific notation is used to track the decimal point in more formal calculations. Addition and subtraction steps in a calculation are generally done mentally or on paper, not on the slide rule.
Most slide rules have three linear strips of the same length. The strips are aligned in parallel and interlocked so that the central strip can be moved lengthwise relative to the other two. The outer two strips are fixed so that their relative positions do not change.
Some slide rules ("duplex" models) have scales on both sides of the rule and slide strip, others on one side of the outer strips and both sides of the slide strip, still others on one side only ("simplex" rules). A sliding cursor with a vertical alignment line is used to find corresponding points on scales that are not next to each other or, in duplex models, are on the other side of the rule. The cursor can also record an intermediate result on any of the scales.
A logarithm transforms the operations of multiplication and division to addition and subtraction according to the rules formula_1 and formula_2.