1. What is the significance of the ecliptic? Why are the sun, the moon, and the planets only found near the ecliptic?
2. What is the difference between a constellation and asterisk? Give two examples of each

Find a linearization at a suitably chosen integer near a at which the given function and its derivative are easy to evaluate.f(x)=7e^(−x), a = −0.1

Set the center of the linearization as x=0.

1. Geologists predict that non-renewable fuel sources like oil will be depleted in the near future due to overuse. Economists tend to disagree with this viewpoint. Explain the logic behind the economist’s viewpoint.

1) List and explain some ways for one to improve their personal cash flow situation by increasing their net cash flows or to reducing their cash flows (if possible) in the near future. Be realistic.

The wastewater treatment plant will also treat wastewater originating from the industrial activity of pulp and paper in the near future. Proposed and describe appropriate unit processes that can be added to the plant.

A parallel plate capacitor is composed of two parallel plates of aluminium foil, each with a surface area of 2.5 m2 that are separated by 2.0 mm The foils are then oppositely charged with 5 mC of charge.

a) what is the electric field between and outside of the capacitor near its middle ?

b) If a dust particle (m = 0.5 ng) picks up 10,000 electrons and finds itself right near the negatively charge plate, what is its KE (in J and eV) after it moves to the positive plate?

c) how long does it take the dust particle to get to the positive plate ?

d) what will its speed be when it gets to the positive plate ?

5. The National Cancer Institute conducted a 2-year study to determine whether cancer death rates for areas near nuclear power plants are higher than for areas without nuclear facilities. A spokesperson for the Cancer Institute said, "From the data at hand, there was no convincing evidence of any increased risk of death from any of the cancers surveyed due to living near nuclear facilities.” (1 points for each)   

1. Let p denote the proportion of the population in areas near nuclear power plants who die of cancer during a given year. The researchers at the Cancer Institute have considered the null and alternative hypotheses below:

H₀: p = value for areas without nuclear facilities

H_a: p > value for areas without nuclear facilities

According to the spokesperson’s statement, what is the conclusion of the National Cancer Institute? Select one of the following:

Reject H₀                          Fail to reject H₀                                         Reject H_a                          Fail to reject H_a

2. If the National Cancer Institute researchers were incorrect in their conclusion that there is no increased cancer risk associated with living near a nuclear power plant, are they making a Type I or a Type II error? Read carefully and select one of the following:

1. A Type II error, if the researchers were incorrect in their conclusion this would be rejecting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is true.
2. A Type I error, if the researchers were incorrect in their conclusion this would be failing to reject the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is true.
3. A Type II error, if the researchers were incorrect in their conclusion this would be failing to reject the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is false.
4. A Type I error, if the researchers were incorrect in their conclusion this would be rejecting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is false.

When we talk about Physics (Einstein's) laws we use notions of distance and velocity. Take for example objects A and B. In A's base at specific moment of time there's definite distance to B and definite B's velocity.

But if there's a short wormhole staring near A and ending near B there's no more definite distance. There're actually two distances from A to B - e.g. long and short.

If the B's end of wormhole moves at B's speed (in A's base) then there're also two B's velocities - one normal and one equal to zero measured via wormhole.

Doesn't that mean that notions of distance and velocity are incorrect in the space with wormholes, i.e. multiconnected space?

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It seems that I should reformulate my question in a more strict way.

There're two relativity point objects A and B. There's also a wormhole W.

First wormhole mouth Wa is near A and is connected to A. Second mouth Wb is near B and it is moving together with B at B's speed in A's base. But the wormhole length (the distance between Wa and Wb measured through wormhole) is constant.

Now in A's base we have some relativity formulas for B's energy, time shift, etc. In these formulas we put Vb - B's velocity in A's base.

The question is: how do we measure Vb to use in the formulas?

There're two ways:

1. We measure Vb in ordinary way out of wormhole. In this case Vb have some large value.

2. We measure Vb through the wormhole. In this case Vb is equal to 0.

Which value should we use in the formulas?

Cavco Industries of Phoenix Arizona produces manufactured housing for the 21st century that rivals the construction and design elements found in traditional site built homes. In business for over 40 years Cavco sells manufactured homes, camping cabins, and park model homes under 400 square feet in size and commercial buildings. The company has several hundred floor plans to choose from or it can customize floor plans to fit the design specifications of the buyer. Sales have risen about 7% annually over the past 3 years.

Cavco relies on lean manufacturing and just in time inventory management techniques at its 3 manufacturing facilities. With thousands of stock keeping units direct materials inventory turns over every week. The most expensive inventory items consist of wood and wood products, steel, drywall abd petroleum based products. There are about 50 different stations in the main assembly lines. On Cavco's production floor. They are fed daily by subsidiary job shops close by such as the in house cabinet making shop and flooring shop. Nothing is ever made to stock so the bills of materials coming from independent dealer orders drive the release of direct materials onto the floor at each station in assembly.

At each plant the manager schedules production so tightly that there is rarely downtime at any station in an assembly line. Efficiency is so consistent that budgeted direct materials and direct manufacturing labor usually match the actual costs incurred at month end. Instead of computing a budgeted overhead allocation rate at the beginning of the year and adjusting at year end the company applies actual plant overhead. This consists of
1-Utilities
2-Engineering
3-Purchasing
4-Plant manager salaries

This is done each month so managers can see how they did and make adjustments before the next month's production activities get too far along. Once each home section is completed it is driven out of the plant by independent shippers title passes to the dealer sales revenue is booked and the home is taken to its destination. With no unsold finished goods in stock at month end the only materials to account for each month are those not yet released into production and those in work in process inventory.

QUESTION 1
Assume Cavco has dedicated one of its manufacturing plants to building camping cabins. Budgeted annual fixed manufacturing costs for this facility are $2,000,000 and include the items listed in the case. The amount will remain the same even though shifts per day and days worked per week may fluctuate. The master budget for 2006 is based on one shift production of 2 camping cabins per day over a 4 day work week. The plant is closed on Mondays for building and equipment maintenance. The company also shuts down production for one week in July and one week at the end of December. Normal capacity utilization is based on one shift production of 2 cabinets per day 5 days per week throughout the year. If every camping cabin built in this plant takes the same amount of time to complete what is the 2006 budgeted fixed manufacturing overhead cost rate per cabin under theoretical capacity, practical capacity, normal capacity utilization, and master budget capacity utilization?

Difficult Transitions Tony had just finished his first week at Hotel Luxury Incorporated and decided to drive upstate to a small lakefront lodge for some fishing and relaxation. Tony had worked for the previous ten years for the Sun Group Company, but Sun Group had been through some hard times of late and had recently shut down several of its operating groups, including Tony’s, to cut costs. Fortunately, Tony’s experience and recommendations had made finding another position fairly easy. As he drove the interstate, he reflected on the past ten years and the apparent situation at Reece. At Sun Group , things had been great. Tony had been part of the team from day one. The job had met his personal goals and expectations perfectly, and Tony believed he had grown greatly as a person. His work was appreciated and recognized; he had received three promotions and many more pay increases. Tony had also liked the company itself. The firm was decentralized, allowing its managers considerable autonomy and freedom. The corporate Culture was easygoing. Communication was open. It seemed that everyone knew what was going on at all times, and if you didn’t know about something, it was easy to find out. The people had been another plus. Tony and three other managers went to lunch often and played golf every Saturday. They got along well both personally and professionally and truly worked together as a team. Their boss had been very supportive, giving them the help they needed but also staying out of the way and letting them work. When word about the shutdown came down, Tony was devastated. He was sure that nothing could replace Sun Group . After the final closing was announced, he spent only a few weeks looking around before he found a comparable position at the Luxury Hotel. As Tony drove, he reflected that "comparable" probably was the wrong word. Indeed, Luxury Hotel and Sun Group were about as different as you could get. Top managers at Luxury Hotel apparently didn’t worry too much about who did a good job and who didn’t. They seemed to promote and reward people based on how long they had been there and how well they played the never-ending political games. Maybe this stemmed from the organization itself, Tony pondered. Luxury Hotel was a bigger organization than Sun Group and was structured much more bureaucratically. It seemed that no one was allowed to make any sort of decision without getting three signatures from higher up. Those signatures, though, were hard to get. All the top managers usually were too busy to see anyone, and interoffice memos apparently had very low priority. Tony also had had some problems fitting in. His peers treated him with polite indifference. He sensed that a couple of them resented that he, an outsider, had been brought right in at their level after they had had to work themselves up the ladder. On Tuesday he had asked two colleagues about playing golf. They had politely declined, saying that they did not play often. But later in the week, he had overheard them making arrangements to play that very Saturday. It was at that point that Tony had decided to go fishing. As he steered his car off the interstate to get gas, he wondered if perhaps he had made a mistake in accepting the Luxury Hotel offer without finding out more about what he was getting into. Case Questions Task 1. Identify several concepts and characteristics from the field of organizational behavior that this case illustrates. Task 2. What advice can you give Tony? How would this advice be supuported or tempered by behavioral concepts and processes?