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Muscle contraction can be explained using the 'Sliding Filament Hypothesis'. Following nervous stimulation, a nerve impulse will be transmitted to a neuromuscular junction. This will cause a release of th...

When given a piece of writing, always look for 'like' or 'as'. If an object, for example, a car is described to be 'like' a snail or 'as' slow as a snail, this is a simile. A simile compares something, to...

Monetary policy refers to the Central Bank's action on money supply, and therefore its effect on interest rates. A tightening, therefore, refers to raised, or high interest rates, such as if the UK raised...

The most important reason why Mary was a threat to Elizabeth's reign was the fact that Mary was Catholic. Elizabeth had reinstated Protestantism as the official religion of England when she inherited the ...

The static friction force holding the object on the slope is given by Fr where R = mg by Newton's second law of motion. We use a < sign as the static friction is a reaction force And the force drag...