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  Minds On Physics - Electric Circuits Objectives
The student should be able to identify the conditions which are necessary for an electric current to be established within a circuit and recognize that the current is the same everwhere within the circuit.
The student should be able to identify the definition of voltage, the units of voltage, and relate voltage to the electric potential difference between two points on a circuit.
The student should be able to identify a circuit as being either parallel or series and mathematically analyze the circuit to determine the equivalent resistance, the total circuit current, the voltage drop across each resistor, and the current through each resistor (if given the battery voltage and the resistance of each resistor).
www.glenbrook.k12.il.us /gbssci/phys/mop/m11/objectiv.html   (768 words)

  
 Hamilton Hydro | Electric & Magnetic Fields   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Electric and magnetic fields are invisible lines of force surrounding any wire or device that uses electricity.
Electric fields within one foot of small appliances are in the range of 0.02 to 0.2 kV/m, while the field immediately adjacent to the heating wires of an electric blanket can approach 10 kV/m.
Electric fields from all sources are greatest in the area immediately surrounding the power line or electrical device.
www.hamiltonhydro.com /questions/questions_em_fields.shtml   (870 words)

  
 electric minds: sooth
abbe reminded me that i collected advance predictions for electric minds (as i did when i was at hotwired).
The Electric Minds Palace becomes the showcase for a new kind of improvisational interaction spawning 100s of imitators but none with the same verve and flair.
Electric Minds will become the lightning rod for a lot of free-floating bad vibes out there about the ability of the Internet to facilitate human communication.
www.links.net /vita/eminds/sooth.html   (1978 words)

  
 Electric Minds trims workforce | CNET News.com
Electric Minds, the brainchild of well-known technology writer Howard Rheingold, is temporarily laying off 10 of its 17 employees because of a cash shortfall.
Electric Minds president Wendy York-Fess says the employees will be hired back, perhaps as soon as a month from now when the company gets its second round of financing.
Electric Minds was founded by Rheingold and Randy Haykin, founding vice president of sales and marketing at Yahoo.
att.com.com /2100-1001_3-279392.html?tag=mainstry   (323 words)

  
 electric minds
Electric Minds was a web magazine about living online.
electric minds might very well have come from howard's own web site, which very well might have come from our html sessions in his garden in 1994 and 1995.
i really mourned electric minds when i was in my technology self and society class at swarthmore, a year later.
www.links.net /vita/eminds   (776 words)

  
 Full Circle Associates: Musings on Online Community Governance
Electric Minds was small and in some ways self-limiting by it's recoil from the Thrash.
Despite the rumors of it's demise, Electric Minds is alive, and in many senses, "well," in that enough people still find value to stick around.
I would love to hyperlink together the experiences of more of the folks who were involved with the Electric Minds governance issue and look across the threads to see the similarities and differences.
www.fullcirc.com /community/governance.htm   (3084 words)

  
 LookSmart's Furl - View Item - My Experience With Electric Minds
What I had in mind had elements of a magazine (editorial filtering, creative design, regular, high-quality, "content"), but was much more like a community (many to many, unfiltered, audience-created content).
Electric Minds was supposed to be an experiment.
In order to continue paying for what many reviewers had acknowledged as high quality content and conversations, Electric Minds was on its way to growing from 14 employes to 30, with most of our revenues derived from contract work building virtual communities for others.
www.furl.net /item.jsp?id=1923137   (1818 words)

  
 Money Making Secrets of Mind Power Masters
Mind Power News is the internet's best source of cutting edge information about the power of the human mind.
I gathered up 25 of the top experts in the field of Mind Power and I asked them to share their secrets for creating more wealth, more abundance, and more prosperity in the lives of my readers.
As a member of the Mind Power News community you will receive special secret reports and insider information absolutely free as part of my weekly reports on using the power of your mind to change your life.
www.SecretMindPower.com   (2806 words)

  
 USK | Community | electric minds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Unofficial Soup Kitchen is honored to provide a link to an opportunity to experience a gathering of minds in a sprawling, yet cohesive, community where people from all over the world are meeting, conversing, socializing, learning, teaching and connecting.
he people at electric minds have likened their forum to the Greek agora.
o expound any more about our excitement about experiencing electric minds would be like saying we need to drop acid together in order to justify reality.
www.usk.org /commu/eminds.html   (394 words)

  
 Electric Minds beta-tests new conferencing
However, as of September 14, the contract between Electric Minds and its current conferencing platform expires, thus Durand will migrate the entire Electric Minds community to CommunityWare.
Durand made an investment in Electric Minds because it values the history and self-governing model that Rheingold has fostered.
Electric Minds was formed in Spring 1996 to realize a vision of the “social Web” — a large scale electronic community devoted to discussing science and technology, and their future effects on the global society.
www.durand.com /press/pr_eminds1.htm   (609 words)

  
 COMMUNET Archives -- November 1996, week 4 (#15)
As previously mentioned, David Bohm, a quantum > physicist, says that human thought is largely a "collective > phenomenon," drawing an analogy between the "collective > properties of particles and the way in which thought works" Yet, as Bohm should know, there are diverse models of collective properties.
The question that he poses, that has annoyed me for years is this: he claims that there is no open market without a democratic framework.
> > Thought particles generated in digital code, by "electric > minds" in global cyberspace, are all driven by the same old > pool of value systems, their computer glitz notwithstanding.
list.uvm.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9611d&L=communet&T=0&F=&S=&P=1281   (962 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: The Navigator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If his newest venture, Electric Minds, is successful, you'll be seeing Rheingold more and more.
The beauty of Electric Minds, Rheingold says, is that users can read essays and articles by the brainy people and respond to them by posting messages in an open window right beside the story.
As in many virtual communities, Electric Minds members seem to be more interested in telling you what they think than in remarking on what others think.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/navigator/nav1212.htm   (864 words)

  
 FM Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Electric Minds was my first and maybe last corporation.
When Softbank took a cold look at their investments, and started weeding out the ones that were less likely to achieve a ten times return on investment, they withdrew their verbal promises - which had not yet gone to written contract - of bridge financing.
We had revenues - IBM had contracted Electric Minds as the exclusive provider of virtual community services when they conducted the Kasparov versus Deep Blue II chess match.
firstmonday.org /issues/issue4_11/rheingold   (3896 words)

  
 Dorr Foundation Illuminates the Minds of Students Across the United States by Funding Electric Motion Initiative - SAE ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dorr Foundation Illuminates the Minds of Students Across the United States by Funding Electric Motion Initiative
But for those of you with electrical backgrounds, you'll recognize them from your discussions of electric charge, forces and fields.
For more information about A World In Motion's Challenge 4: Electric Motion curriculum, please contact Kathleen O'Connor Byrnes, Manager, K-12 Education Programs, at 724-772-8514 or by email, kbyrnes@sae.org.
www.sae.org /foundation/awim/dorrfoundation.htm   (425 words)

  
 COMMUNET Archives -- March 1997, week 5 (#11)
>> >>Electric Minds creates and facilitates dynamic communities of interest >>on the Web, leveraging the talents of an incredible team to create >>conversations about technology and its effect upon people's lives, now >>and in the future.
>> >>Electric Minds has a blue-chip client for whom we will produce a customized, >>event-driven community for a high-profile project.
Part of the project >>requires both the creation and editing of user navigation instructions, >>a FAQ and text for pages to enter the community itself.
list.uvm.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9703e&L=communet&T=0&F=&S=&P=857   (386 words)

  
 electric sheep - news - NASA plans to read terrorist's minds at airports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Airport security screeners may soon try to read the minds of travelers to identify terrorists.
Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have told Northwest Airlines security specialists that the agency is developing brain-monitoring devices in cooperation with a commercial firm, which it did not identify.
Space technology would be adapted to receive and analyze brain-wave and heartbeat patterns, then feed that data into computerized programs "to detect passengers who potentially might pose a threat," according to briefing documents obtained by The Washington Times.
www.intelmb.com /story/EpkAyEEAlugPDcbmyT.shtml   (167 words)

  
 Conference Center
This imminent pontential darkening of Electric Minds would be a tragic blow on the world of online virtual communities.
This topic is for ongoing updates of the status of Electric Minds.
If the possible demise of electric minds is the thin end of this Or ellian free-market wedge, then God help us all!
www.spring.net /yapp-bin/public/read/minds/6   (550 words)

  
 PR Newswire : Electric Minds Chooses WELL Engaged for Conferencing and Community Building @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Electric Minds will integrate WELL Engaged's Web conferencing software and host its community on the Internet through San Francisco-based Whole Earth Networks, a sister company of The WELL and WELL Engaged.
Electric Minds is one of the first companies to license WELL Engaged.
Read 'PR Newswire: Electric Minds Chooses WELL Engaged for Conferencing and Community Building' with a FREE Trial for instant access »
static.highbeam.com /p/prnewswire/september301996/electricmindschooseswellengagedforconferencingandc/index.html   (231 words)

  
 Big Picture | Durand acquires Electric Minds | CNET News.com
Members of Electric Minds weigh in on the offer by an Internet communications firm to acquire what's left of the online company.
Cash-strapped Electric Minds, the experiment in online community, may be just weeks away from closing shop.
The Electric Minds online community--launched to indulge high-minded discussions--shifts to more basic matters.
news.com.com /2104-1023_3-201400.html   (137 words)

  
 Electric Minds (WebSeitz/wikilog)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
http://www.electricminds.org/venice/frame/eminds/about-eminds.html *Electric Minds (commonly abbreviated "[EMinds]") was founded in 1996 by Howard Rheingold ([EMinds] user [ID]
With [Well Engaged] Group Discussion software (derived from that used by The WELL) and a team of talented individuals, he created a Web site that was named as one of the top 10 Web sites of 1996 by Time magazine.
Electric Minds also was noted for hosting discussions for the Kasparov vs. Deep Blue chess match.
webseitz.fluxent.com /wiki/ElectricMinds   (118 words)

  
 The Power of Many: Genesis file of Electric Minds
The early history of the Electric Minds online community founded by Howard Rheingold (running from 1996 to 2000 is preserved at the beginning of a conference on the current site that keeps the history up to date.
The period from '96 to 2000 covers the boom/bust sine wave so many starry-eyed wired people at the time experienced (you know, when the buzzword-du-jour cycled from portal to community and back).
The history of the current version of Electric Minds continues here.
x-pollen.com /many/2004/06/10/genesis_file_of_electric_minds.html   (336 words)

  
 Big Picture | Rheingold still with E-Minds | CNET News.com
Howard Rheingold, founder and former chief executive of Electric Minds, signs a deal to produce and host an online conference under the aegis of his former company.
Howard Rheingold is feeling good but a little pensive now that Durand Communications will acquire the company he started, Electric Minds.
Electric Minds says it has sealed a deal with a buyer, saving the online community from near-certain death.
news.com.com /2104-1023_3-202542.html   (156 words)

  
 Redirect page for the Electric Minds Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
We apologize for the inconvenience but due to a recent hardware failure, the Electric Minds community is currently not online.
The Electric Minds community is looking forward to returning again as a free and independent entity utilizing the latest in open source technology.
All of us who value Electric Minds as one of the oldest and most renowned communities on the web look forward to a long and exciting future.
www.goodwinlibrary.com /minds   (203 words)

  
 Mindjack Magazine - the mind of Howard Rheingold
With this in Mind, I'm interested in your thoughts on the future of online communication accessibility.
We're probably less than a few years away from having inexpensive and very mobile communication systems that will virtually allow for permanent web and IT access.
I wrote something about this in an article for Wired.
www.mindjack.com /interviews/howard1.html   (1019 words)

  
 electric minds | tomorrow | howard rheingold's tomorrow
Electric Minds is proud to present excerpts from David Shenk's book "Data Smog."
As a skeptical analytical buffer and -- now more than ever -- as an arbiter of statistical claims, the news media are an indispensable public utility, every bit as vital as our electricity and gas lines.
Putting a computer in every classroom is like putting an electric power plant in every home.
www.abbedon.com /electricminds/html/tom_rheingold_3128.html   (3488 words)

  
 Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net
Real mental patients, after being treated with the electric needles once, would be scared whenever they saw the needles again.
We can imagine how much injury is caused by electric needles and what courage and will it takes for a clearheaded, physically healthy person to endure such treatment.
The extremely cruel officials in the detention center had planned to blot out Dafa from practitioners' minds with electric shock; however, it turned out to be the opposite of what they intended.
www.clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2001/8/26/13234.html   (1958 words)

  
 electric minds | home
: Electric Minds will be offline to perform a systems upgrade for approximately 1-2 hours on Monday April 21, 1997 starting at 10:00pm PST.
Bob Rossney, ubiquitous wizard Arctic Frost, and other fascinatin' guests.
©1996, 1997 electric minds, all rights reserved worldwide.
www.abbedon.com /electricminds/html/home.html   (135 words)

  
 Marc's Voice
At that time, and in many conversations since then, Engelbart stressed that his original framework for augmentation included "humans, using language, artifacts, methodology, and training," although most emphasis by most people in the intervening decades has been on the visible part, the artifacts.
Although the enterprise of Electric Minds is long forgotten, I talked a lot about "the social web" in 1986-87 (and Judith Donath wrote about The Sociable Web.
The original conversations are gone, but a snapshot of the editorial content Electric Minds exists -- note in particlar The Virtual Community Center.
blogs.it /0100198/2003/05/08.html   (4566 words)

  
 Wired News: Electric Minds Turns Heads with New Model
"We are not a destination site or a zine company," said Electric Minds president Wendy York-Fess, marking a clear shift from the start-up's initial plans.
Already, Electric Minds has lined up a string of potential deals with big name companies interested in building community sites.
IBM has signed up, Yahoo is in "advanced discussions," and more announcements are expected before the month is out.
www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,3031,00.html   (487 words)

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