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Tutorials / Etching Your Own Circuit Board

While breadboards are good for prototyping and perf boards are swell for creating a simple, robust circuit, etching your own circuit board provides the opportunity for inexpensive fabrication of more complex circuits. It allows you to create multiples of the same circuit, and your design is no longer tied to the grid of the perf board. This opens the door for creativity in the design of your circuitboard. (:toc Table of Contents:) Safety Precautions This process involves the use of a chemical etchant called Ferric Chloride. Ferric Chloride is an etchant which means that it eats metal.

A few things to remember about handling ferric chloride: Use PLASTIC containers when using ferric chloride. use in a well ventilated space. be careful to avoid contact with your skin or eyes. When finished etching, store your used etchant in a plastic bottle with a cap and place in the hazmat area of the shop. Let's begin. Academic Resource Center. Seth Clabough, ARC Director Hello and welcome to the Academic Resource Center.

Academic Resource Center

Our mission here at the ARC is to support continued academic growth and effective learning among all Sweet Briar students. Rent Textbooks. Cheap Textbook Rentals for College. 105 Free College Lectures. OpenUW Free Courses. Programs. The Hewlett Foundation helps people build measurably better lives.

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Our grantees are working to reduce poverty in the developing world, curb carbon emissions that lead to climate change, and improve education for students in California and elsewhere, among many other valuable goals. While the goals of the Foundation are about problems that we're trying to solve, our Foundation is organized in such a way that grants are made from particular programs. We've tried to provide sufficient information about each program's grantmaking to give the visitor a comprehensive understanding of what we fund and why. Here are the Foundation's five programs and their key goals: The Education Program makes grants to: The Environment Program makes grants to: The Global Development and Population Program makes grants to: Open Learning Initiative. Free online textbooks, videos, tutorials, lecture notes, Sofia Project. Free Online Course Materials. ALL the touch-typing tutors! Freeware, shareware, online, direct links to download.

Amusing, yet multifunctional touch-typing tutor with support for several layouts: QWERTY (US, UK, ...), Dvorak, AZERTY etc.

ALL the touch-typing tutors! Freeware, shareware, online, direct links to download.

ONLY in Stamina besides the traditional finger positioning on the keyboard are you offered an ALTERNATIVE method (to reduce hand stress)! After having gone through the fire, water and the course, you will be able to swiftly type away long emails (spam), efficiently misbehave in chat rooms, ICQ and so on without ever looking at the keyboard. The benefits are obvious! Intimate details: work with lessons and text (5 modes), a lesson editor, statistics, progress graphs, virtual keyboard (can be hidden), super MP3 sounds and music, a playlist, support for several users, user-friendly thought out interface, detailed help with a logic game, + a small elephant pile of pleasant tidbits. The program is perfect for novice as well as advanced users. Are you writing memoirs, but feel you might run out of time? Home | Download 1.3 Mb. Typing Test - Learn2Type.com - learn to type online FREE typing tutor and typing tests, typing certification.

Typing Tutor. Instructions This program helps you improving your typing skills by playing a simple game: characters are falling down the screen; you have to stop them before they reach the ground by pressing the corresponding key on the keyboard.

Typing Tutor

Typing Tutor - take the FREE online typing tutorial. Successful Learning: Going Cycling with Learning Styles. What is learning style?

Successful Learning: Going Cycling with Learning Styles

Please refer to the article, ‘Discover Your Learning Style’ (c.f. Successful Learning, Issue No. 8), for a nice introduction to this topic. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory. Learning Disabilities Resource Community - Home. Learning Styles - Learning skills from MindTools. Understanding Learning Preferences Identifying your preferred style of learning can make gaining new knowledge and skills easier.

Learning Styles - Learning skills from MindTools

Have you ever tried to learn something fairly simple, yet failed to grasp the key ideas? Or tried to teach people and found that some were overwhelmed or confused by something quite basic? If so, you may have experienced a clash of learning styles: your learning preferences and those of your instructor or audience may not have been aligned. Howtostudy.org - When you hit the books - and they hit back. The Student Development Centre at Western. Have you ever wondered why you have difficulty learning from a particular instructor, whereas another seems to explain things in just the right way?

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Did you ever question why the course that your friend said was so easy turned into a struggle for you? Do you notice that you and your roommate have different opinions on whether or not to have the radio on while you're studying? The reason behind some of these discrepancies may be differences in learning styles. What is a "learning style"? How to Study and Learn (Part One) All thinking occurs within, and across, disciplines and domains of knowledge and experience, yet few students learn how to think well within those domains.

How to Study and Learn (Part One)

Despite having taken many classes, few are able to think biologically, chemically, geographically, sociologically, anthropologically, historically, artistically, ethically, or philosophically. Students study literature, but do not think in a literary way as a result. How to Study and Learn (Part Two) In part one of this article, we introduced some of the intellectual skills, abilities, and dispositions essential to the development of the educated person as articulated in our Miniature Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn.

How to Study and Learn (Part Two)

We provided eighteen ideas students need for becoming master students. In this article, we continue to highlight important ideas from the Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn. Specifically, we focus on three key ideas: the importance of ideas, or concepts in thinking, how to think within the ideas of a subject or discipline, and how to learn important ideas from textbooks.

Each section in this article is written directly to students, with important implications for learning. How To Understand Ideas. How to Study and Learn (Part Three) In the previous two articles we introduced some of the intellectual skills, abilities, and dispositions essential to the development of the educated person as articulated in our Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn.

All the ideas in this miniature guide are designed to help students think deeply through content and develop intellectually. In this article we focus on the analysis and evaluation of reasoning. To analyze thinking, we focus on its parts. How to Study and Learn (Part Four) In the previous three articles we focused on ideas for helping students improve their studying and learning habits. All of the recommendations come from our Thinker's Guide to How to Study & Learn.

This guide is designed to help students think deeply through content and begin to take their learning seriously. In this article, the final in its series, we focus on the importance of questioning in learning, providing suggestions to help students become active questioners. We also introduce students to the idea that some disciplines deal largely, if not exclusively, with definitive questions, while others deal largely with debatable questions.

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The full text of the verses at the bottom reads: Quarks are Fermions, And leptons are Fermions; Quarks make up hadrons Like neutrons and protons Electrons are leptons With charge minus-one! One Quark Two Quark. Drawspace.com - Learn to draw. Grants.gov - Home.