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Explain why Jane’s idea to switch and retake data is so important. Can the problem be solved without doing this?
The actual average speed of Mr. D is _______ m/s.
The error programmed into each stopwatch is for Jane, _______ seconds and for Fred, _______ seconds.
We will be determining the average speed of a muon in lab soon. The experiment setup is very similar to the one used here to determine the average speed of the walker Mr. D. Like the stopwatches used in the experiment above, the timers inside the photo multiplier tube are subject to making errors as well. It’s up to us to determine what these errors are and calibrate our data accordingly. To determine the correct time of flight for the muon (and thus the correct speed), we will use a technique very similar to the one used above.
INDIANAPOLIS – This is the pairing that Chris Holtmann wanted to avoid, and now cannot avoid.
Kelan Martin made two key baskets down the stretch and blocked Portland State’s potential winning 3-pointer, and Butler held on for a 71-69 victory Friday in the PK Invitational at Portland, Ore.
Butler (4-2) advanced to the consolation final against Ohio State (5-1) at 3 p.m. Sunday on ESPN2. The Bulldogs will thus face their former coach, Holtmann, who left Butler to coach the Buckeyes.
Ohio State advanced by beating Stanford 79-71. Sunday's game will be at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Bulldogs played Portland State (4-2) at the Moda Center.
Tyler Wideman led Butler with 18 points — two off his career high — on 9-of-10 shooting and had eight rebounds. Martin scored 16 points, featuring two baskets that extended Butler's lead in the closing 3:10. Paul Jorgensen came off the bench for 14 points and five assists.
Deontae North scored 18, Michael Mayhew 17 and Bryce Canda 14 for the Vikings. They shot 12-of-26 on 3s.
Kamar Baldwin appeared to give Butler a four-point lead with 16 seconds left, but he was called for charging and his basket annulled. Baldwin, scoreless for 27 minutes, finished with six points and seven rebounds.
Butler forward Sean McDermott landed awkwardly on a rebound early in the second half. He grabbed his right ankle and, with assistance, walked gingerly to the sideline. He is listed as questionable for Sunday.
Ball goes in, you win.
Sometimes basketball is as simple as that.
Butler had as many field goals in the opening eight minutes (seven) as it did in the first half against Texas. The Bulldogs shot 67 percent at the start (14-of-21) and finished at 51 percent.
The Bulldogs did not have to confront a 7-foot defender like Texas' Mo Bamba. Neither did the ball stick as did it in Thursday's 61-48 loss to Texas.
Crisper ball movement inevitably leads to better shots and a higher percentage. The Bulldogs shared the ball, as manifested in eight players making field goals and 15 assists on 29 field goals.
As poorly as the Bulldogs played on offense against Texas, it would be easy to dismiss how stout their defense was. They continued at least some of that, holding Portland State to 41 percent on 2-pointers. The Vikings were held 21 points below their 90-point season average.
Butler, which came in the game ranked 333rd in 3-point defense, showed more vulnerability there. The Vikings, averaging 10.8 3s a game, nearly won from the arc — until Martin blocked North’s attempt with two seconds left.
Conventional wisdom is that the Bulldogs would go as far as their K-stars, Kelan and Kamar, will take them. Turns out there is much more to them.
Wideman, against smaller defenders, repeatedly scored inside. McDermott has had two 17-point games already. Jorgensen gave Butler a lift off the bench.
PORTLAND ST. (4-2) — Hollins 3-5 1-3 7, Edwards 3-9 0-0 6, Mayhew 6-11 0-1 17, Strickland 0-1 0-0 0, Canda 5-11 0-0 14, Orme 2-4 0-0 5, North 4-11 8-12 18, Woods 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 24-55 9-16 69.
BUTLER (4-2) — Wideman 10-11 0-2 20, Martin 6-12 2-2 14, Baldwin 3-10 0-0 6, Thompson 1-5 1-2 3, McDermott 2-7 1-2 5, Brunk 0-0 0-0 0, Fowler 2-2 3-3 7, Jorgensen 4-8 2-2 14, David 0-1 0-1 0, Baddley 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 29-59 9-14 71.
Halftime—Butler 38-34. 3-Point Goals—Portland St. 12-26 (Mayhew 5-9, Canda 4-9, North 2-5, Orme 1-2, Hollins 0-1), Butler 4-17 (Jorgensen 4-7, Baldwin 0-2, McDermott 0-3, Martin 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Portland St. 28 (Canda 6), Butler 33 (Wideman 9). Assists—Portland St. 14 (Woods 8), Butler 15 (Jorgensen, Thompson 5). Total Fouls—Portland St. 18, Butler 15.
Police are appealing for information after an assault in Stakeford.
A 36-year-old woman was jogging over Stakeford Bridge on Saturday evening, December 13th, towards the Half Moon pub, when a man approached her and slapped her on the bottom.
The offender has been described as being white, around 5ft 8ins tall, of thin build and with a pale spotty complexion. He was wearing a dark coloured hooded top and shell suit type bottoms.
Police are appealing for information after a man was left in a critical condition following a motorbike crash in Stakeford.
The 28-year-old man was riding a motorbike in the rear lane of Gordon Terrace around 6:10pm on Wednesday 10 July when for reasons yet to be established he came off the bike.
The emergency services were called to the scene and he was taken to the RVI hospital with serious head injuries, where he remains in a critical condition.
The rear lane was closed for around three hours to allow officers to investigate and recover the motorbike.
Police have been speaking to locals in Gordon Terrace to see if anyone saw anything at the time of the crash.
Anyone with any information into the collision is being asked to contact police on the 101 number.
Civilization did not collapse into computational confusion on New Year’s Eve. The worst Y2K glitch I experienced was finding all my email files suddenly dated 1944, and that was easily fixed.
What happened? Or rather, what didn’t happen?
There is a self-congratulatory answer to that question: We were clever and fast and rich enough to stave off disaster. Companies and governments shelled out billions to scrap old computers and rewrite code. Emergency crews pre-tested power plants and navigation systems by running their clocks forward artificially. We were dumb enough to create the problem, but smart enough to catch it in time.
That answer lost all credibility on New Year’s Eve, as midnight rolled through Asia and darkest Russia, places advanced enough to have computers but not rich or coordinated or, perhaps, gullible enough to pour massive sums into Y2K corrections. Their lights stayed on, their trains ran, their nuclear power plants did not melt down, their websites didn’t blink. Some watchers, I suspect, were disappointed.
Personally I think the Y2K bug was just an amusing millennial panic. But I do see a deeper lesson in this story. The scare was plausible. Programmers, CEOs, engineers, those who work at the heart of the technical beast took it very seriously. They were wrong about the criticality of that particular computer flaw. But the fact that they were so worried reveals a general jumpiness, a simmering distrust of the resilience of the industrial-information system. If not Y2K, then maybe something else could bring down The World As We Know It.
Or maybe not, some of my friends are now saying. Maybe our global economy is less interconnected and vulnerable than we thought. The amazing inventions that sustain our lives and comforts are pretty robust. Small failures are routine, says one online analyst, so we have had to evolve multiple levels of self-correction, including the ability to foresee and take action even against threats that turn out to be exaggerated. As the nuclear industry said after Three Mile Island, yes, the reactor went crazy, but look, we’re all still here. The system worked.
The dedicated worriers among us point out that one patch of rough water safely navigated tells us nothing about what’s around the next bend. The Y2K glitch was simple; we even knew the exact moment when it would appear. The failure that will really expose our fragility will be the one that comes as a surprise. If not a computer bug, then a financial panic or climate change or an oil shortage or an Ebola virus or a slow, insidious pollutant or a fast, spectacular, accidental or purposeful detonation of a hydrogen bomb.
Let’s face it, the Y2K threat was plausible because a lot of us harbor a lurking suspicion that our world is some sort of disaster waiting to happen. We know how helpless we are when the electricity goes off. Many of us remember the chaos of the 1973 oil crisis, when the faucet that controls world oil flow was cranked down by just a few percent. A system dependent on long-distance transport of a few critical (and nonrenewable) resources, a system full of vital machines that the average person has no idea how to fix, a system where memory is wiped out if electrons stop flowing through power lines, a system with millions of very rich and very poor people living right on top of each other — that system is brittle. It could break.
There’s even a widely shared sense, at least among my friends, that the coming crash, whatever causes it, will be somewhat deserved and something of a relief. They speak of it with a strange combination of dread and excitement. That’s because their logistic critique of the system’s physical vulnerability is combined with a moral critique of its materialism, violence, wastefulness, pride, injustice, soullessness. Sodom and Gomorrah. Time for something to come along and smite this wickedness.
I agree with both the logistic and the moral critique, but I have always cringed at the assumption that a collapse will force human improvement. I understand the frustration that leads to such a perverse hope. But I can’t share the hope.
A Cleveland police officer is facing charges after being accused of contacting about 2,300 women using the department’s computers.
Sgt. Michael Rybarczyk, 58, was indicted on three counts of unauthorized use of property Monday, according to court records obtained by KTLA sister station WJW in Cleveland.