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Introduction: Foreword to Parents. Wikijunior books welcomes you to Big Cats, a free children's book from the Wikibooks community. Big cats are some of Earth's grandest treasures, and their stories excite the imagination of kids of all ages. Many of these lords of the wild are endangered, and the children who will one day shoulder our responsibilities need to learn to admire and love our world...their world. After all we appreciate what we understand, and save what we ap...
Introduction: This is a project of Wikijunior, a collection of free books written especially for kids to learn about science and nature. Many people have been involved with writing this book. This project is hosted on Wikibooks, and you are encouraged to help participate with writing and editing these books.
Excerpt: Computers and Peripherals. What is a computer? A computer is a machine that inputs (takes in) facts and information (known as data), and then processes (does something to or with) it. Afterwards it outputs, or displays, the results for you to see. Data is all kinds of information, including, pictures, letters, numbers, and sounds. There are two main parts of computers, hardware and software. Hardware is all of the parts of the computer you can see and touch. Sof...
Excerpt: This book attempts to teach you the skills that can help you to have lucid dreams ? dreams in which you know that you are dreaming. Lucid dreams have been scientifically proven to exist. Being aware that you are dreaming, and still remaining asleep, can give you the ability to control your dreams. Lucid dreaming truly can be a fantastic experience. See the introduction for more details on what lucid dreaming is. First, you will find out a little on what dreaming...
Preface: Welcome to the Ada Programming tutorial at Wikibooks. This is the first Ada tutorial covering the Ada 2005 standard. If you are a beginner you will learn the latest standard - if you are a seasoned Ada user you can see what's new. Current Development Stage for Ada Programming is Jul 27, 2005. At this date, there are more than 200 pages in this book, which makes Ada Programming the largest of the programming Wikibooks [1]. But still there is always room for impro...
Preface: The world of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) changes rapidly. New technologies and with them, new opportunities, come and go at an ever increasing speed. The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement is one such development that is playing out before us today. It is many things - revolutionary development process, disruptive technology, ideological movement, new knowledge and standards, and more. It offers many opportunities for governmental,...
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Excerpt: First Line Index. Large and small blue links and the Unicode Greek (Uni) gold links are to pages at Peitho's Web. Other links are to other web sites. For most external translations you'll need to scroll to the appropriate fragment.
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Excerpt: Part I: The Special Theory of Relativity: // 01. Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions // 02. The System of Coordinates // 03. Space and Time in Classical Mechanics // 04. The Galilean System of Coordinates // 05. The Principle of Relativity (in the Restricted Sense) // 06. The Theorem of the Addition of Velocities employed in Classical Mechanics // 07. The Apparent Incompatibility of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity // 08....
Introduction: Just What Is a Language? A language is an organized, ordered way of speaking and listening. Reading and writing are a way of representing language in a permanent format, but many languages have no written form. Language is one form of communication. It can be spoken, visual or signed. We can say that language is a code of symbols used to communicate.
Excerpt: Quenya. From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection. Quenya is an artificial language created by the English philologist and author of ?The Lord of the Rings?, ?The Hobbit?, etc., J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973). The native language of the High Elves, Quenya was inspired by Finnish and Latin. It has nine cases (nominative, genitive, possessive, dative, allative, ablative, locative, instrumental, respective) and five verbal tenses (including the aorist, base...
Excerpt: Forced Oscillations (Simple Spring-Mass System) Recap of Section 1.3 In the previous section, we discussed how adding a damping component (e. g. a dashpot) to an unforced, simple spring-mass system would affect the response of the system. In particular, we learned that adding the dashpot to the system changed the natural frequency of the system from to a new damped natural frequency , and how this change made the response of the system change from a constant sin...
Excerpt: Evaluating Theory. What makes a theory good? Six criteria might be said to be properties of a strong theory. (The terminology presented here is drawn from Littlejohn, Theories of Human Communication, but a similar set of criteria are widely accepted both within and outside the field of communication.)W Theoretical Scope How general is the theory? That is, how widely applicable is it? In most cases, a theory that may only be applied within a fairly narrow set of ...
Preface: A Background of European History Introduction. The purpose of this volume is to give the reader a broad historic overview of the period from the high middle ages to the present day, roughly AD 1000 and AD 2000. This is, of course, a somewhat arbitrary period, but not a wholly unuseful one; whilst the early middle ages see a contraction of the urbanised societies of Europe, the eleventh century sees a consolidation of many states and the growth of their military ...
Introduction: Writing is a complicated and often mysterious process. Although we may think of it as little more than arranging letters and words on a page, a few moments' reflection reveals that it is much more than that. On the one hand, writing is an art--we don't say Shakespeare's language is correct but rather that it is beautiful. On the other hand, writing is a science-- we want the instructions that came with our DVD player to be accurate, precise, and easy to understand.
Introduction: Nuclear Medicine is a fascinating application of nuclear physics. This Wikibooks is intended to support a basic introductory course in an early semester of an undergraduate program. It assumes that students have completed decent high school programs in math and physics and are concurrently taking subjects in the medical sciences. External Links // Australian & New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine - the main nuclear medicine society in Australia; there i...
Introduction: Live Version // Discussion // Edit Lesson // Comment // Report An Error // Ask A Question. What is TeX TeX (pronounced Tech) is mainly a low level programming language aimed to typesetting documents. It is very powerful but, since you have to take care of everything, it is difficult to use it for long documents and time-consuming. What is LaTeX LaTeX (pronounced either Lah-tech or Lay-tech) is a macro package created by Leslie Lamport based on the...
Introduction: Human physiology is the study of the functioning of the normal body, and is responsible for describing how various systems of the human body work. Explanations often begin at a macroscopic level and proceed to a molecular level. In 1926, Fritz Kahn portrayed the body as a complex chemical plant, as seen in the painting on the right. This textbook provides an introductory explanation of the workings of the human body, with an effort to draw connections betwe...
Introduction: Glojo mir ebdayo zey yacana dayen. Soon the world will converse through a common tongue. Unilingua ( = Mirad ) is an artificially-constructed auxiliary language (conlang) developed and published by Paris-based author Noubar Agopoff as a serious medium for easy and logical international communication. Mirad is categorized by constructed language aficionados as philosophical because its vocabulary is mapped letter-by-letter to a semantic ontology or thesaurus...
Overview: Chess, unlike many other games, does not involve chance. It does not hinge on the roll of dice or which card is drawn. The outcome completely depends on the decisions of both the players. However, because of its vast complexity, the far-reaching consequences of some decisions are practically unforeseeable. One player (White) has the white pieces while the other (Black) has the black pieces. In friendly games the choice of colors can be made by any method, such ...