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Pathetic fallacy is a literary device that is used to create mood and atmosphere. It is the use of the weather or other atmospheric devices to reflect the mood and tone of the characters and their situati...

One of the most crucial functions of the heart is to act as a pump which distributes the blood around the body. The blood is first collected in the atria, and then pumped from atria to the ventricles. The...

When an action potential from a motor neurone stimulates a muscle cell, a number of things happen to cause sarcomeres (the smallest contracting unit of a muscle cell) to shorten and contract very rapidly....

There are two main features if an object is in SHM. The first is that it has a fixed maximum amplitude. That is to say, if the mean (halfway between the maximum values of oscillation (+ve and -ve)) displa...

This is an example of an essay question that could be asked (with slight variation) for a paper on British Politics. An approach to the question will need to be twofold - firstly the content needs to be a...