Saturday, October 27, 2007

Freeway and its Design features

A freeway (is also superhighway, expressway or motorway as further explained below) is a multi-lane public road or highway planned for high-speed travel by great numbers of vehicles, and having no traffic lights, stop signs, or other regulations requiring vehicles to stop for cross-traffic.

Freeways have high speed limits and multiple lanes for travel in every direction. The number of lanes may differ from four or six in rural areas to as high as sixteen or eighteen in definite global cities. Freeway entrances and exits are restricted in number, and are intended with special onramps and off ramps, so as to make sure that vehicles do not disrupt the most important flow of traffic as they enter or leave the freeway. In few countries, the exits are numbered. Exit numbering may perhaps be by mile or kilometer, or in a simple sequential fashion. Where freeways cross, engineers give interchanges with elaborate ramp systems that permit for smooth, uninterrupted transitions connecting all through routes (as funds permit).

For the reason that the high speeds lessen decision time, freeways generally have more traffic signs than the equivalent signs on most highways and roads; the signs are time and again also larger. In most important cities, mainly on freeways six lanes in width or wider, guide signs are mounted on overpasses or overhead gantries so that drivers can see where each lane goes. Another ordinary problem with freeways is that it is almost impossible to keep away from wrong-way drivers, and the subsequent head-on collisions are often fatal. For that reason, special signage and lane markings are used to discourage drivers from going the wrong way. Freeways do not generally have traffic lights, but expressways may, in places where this distinction is made.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

A general view on Glasses

The Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames manner lenses worn in front of the human eyes, sometimes for just aesthetic reasons but in general for vision correction or eye protection. The Special glasses are used for viewing the three-dimensional images or experiencing virtual reality.

The Modern glasses are typically supported by pads on the bridge of the nose and by temples placed over the ears. The Historical types consist of the pince nez, monocle, and lorgnette. The Glasses are more often called eyeglasses in North American English, rarely spectacles in British English, and (rarely) frames or lenses. The Spectacles are often shortened to specs. In hipster jargon they are cheaters.

The Glasses were initially made from glass, but many are now made from plastic (often polycarbonate) because of the danger of breakage and the greater weight of glass lenses. Some plastics also have more beneficial optical properties than glass, like better transmission of visible light and better absorption of ultraviolet light. Some plastics have a greater index of refraction than the majority types of glass, allowing thinner lenses for a given prescription. Scratch-resistant coatings can be applied to most plastic lenses charitable them similar scratch resistance to glass. Hydrophobic coatings intended to ease cleaning are also obtainable, as are anti-reflective coatings designed to improve night vision and make the wearer's eyes more visible.

The Corrective spectacles have lenses created to correct vision abnormalities, like myopia. The Safety glasses are a type of eye protection against flying debris or noticeable and near visible light or radiation. The Sunglasses care for against high levels of visible and ultraviolet light.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

The real facts about Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by distant the largest. Jupiter is above twice as huge as all the additional planets combined. Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium (by numbers of atoms, 75/25% by mass) with traces of methane, water, ammonia and "rock". This is very near to the composition of the primordial Solar Nebula from which the full solar system was formed. Saturn has a related composition, but Uranus and Neptune have much fewer hydrogen and helium.

Jupiter is the fourth shinning object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus). It has been recognized since prehistoric times as a bright "wandering star". However in 1610 when Galileo first pointed a telescope at the sky he revealed Jupiter’s four large moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto (currently known as the Galilean moons) and recorded their motions back and forth just about Jupiter. This was the first finding of a center of motion not it seems that centered on the Earth. It was a most important point in favor of Copernicus's heliocentric theory of the motions of the planets (along with other new facts from his telescope: the phases of Venus and the mountains on the Moon). Galileo's outspoken support of the Copernican theory got him in mess with the Inquisition. Today anyone can replicate Galileo's observations (without fear of retribution :-) using binoculars or a cheap telescope.

Jupiter and the added gas planets have high velocity winds which are confined in broad bands of latitude. The winds blow in reverse directions in adjacent bands. Slight chemical and temperature differences between these bands are in charge for the colored bands that govern the planet's appearance. The brightness colored bands are called zones; the dark ones belts. The bands have been identified for some time on Jupiter, but the complex vortices in the boundary regions between the bands were first seen by Voyager. The data from the Galileo probe specify that the winds are even faster than expected (more than 400 mph) and make bigger down into as far as the probe was able to view; they may extend down thousands of kilometers into the center. Jupiter's atmosphere was also found to be pretty turbulent. This indicates that Jupiter's winds are determined in large part by its internal heat fairly than from solar input as on Earth.