Sentences with phrase «building a scale model»

How about building a scale model of your house (involves measuring, accurate drawing, scaling down etc)?

At present, one of the main methods used by architects to predict the acoustics of a theatre or concert hall is to build scale models.

Another part of his proposal is to build a scale model of the solar system within Manhattan, with a model of the sun in Battery Park, inner planets throughout downtown and midtown, and outer planets in the Bronx.

AstroSoc, the University of York astronomy society, are fundraising to build a scale model of the solar system across the University of York.

In this 50 - minute videoconference program, students are given a brief introduction to the UT McDonald Observatory, build a scale model of the Milky Way galaxy, complete a student sheet that explores the relative size and distribution of bright stars in our galaxy and between galaxies themselves.

It appears that the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good collapsed due to being constructed with the same materials that were used to build its scale model, killing Derek's wife (Christine Taylor) and disfiguring Hansel.

Richard Taylor's miniature unit, Weta Workshop in New Zealand, built scale models of the British ship Surprise and the French vessel Acheron.

When Alvarez was building a scale model, mentors chimed in with constructive critique.

His students started creating designs for these shelters in their notebooks and building scale models.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

For an additional engineering challenge, students can use classroom materials to build a scale model of their figure's important tools.

could i have the dimentions of the lighthouse for the purpose of building a scale model please.

For her multi-media project Half Life, Parker built a scale model of the southern section of Wave Hill's Glyndor House, which contains the Sunroom Project Space, and placed it in the nearby Herbert and Hyonja Abrons Woodland from March to August 2011.

The images became the reference point for Lapid to build her scale models, which she then photographed against a stark, grey background.

Each photograph is the result of a painstaking working process in the studio: James Casebere starts by building scale models and finishes by designing complex lighting.

I'd like to have my students design a tiny house and then build a scale model.

We had to design and build a scale model of a building in only an hour and a half.

Not exact matches

Specific experience with hiring, firing and navigating difficult situations (company pivots, large scale business model changes or moving from old business systems to building new ones) also builds a strong case for a higher starting salary.

That's Netflix's business model in a nutshell: building scale on top of fixed costs and hoping that the growth of the former continues to outpace the growth of the latter.

«The Biggest trend [that] has been around is how fintech companies are benefiting with scale by integrating within the banks and building models that apply their innovative strengths with the strengths of the banks scale offerings.

They worked diligently with us to build a financial model that we were all comfortable with, and are now very focused on how we work together to scale ParkMyCloud.

Moving up the complexity scale, non-linear or machine learning models like Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines or Decision Trees can be used to build the investment signal.

This is especially problematic in the Web 2.0 / Freemium world where too many company build their business models around trying to build massive scale of free customers and then convert a small share to low monthly payments.

Our point of differentiation is the scale and speed with which we can build the models and provide analytics.

What's changed is the level of rigor we put into building technology to gather high - quality data and build best - in - market models with scale.

They seem pretty adamant about the level of Lego experience required: «Must have LEGO building experience and be able to design and build sturdy, accurate, complicated, safe and installable LEGO models for a wide variety of LEGOLAND attractions including miniature scale models and / or life sized organic models from prototypes.»

Although this is a characterization, it is with considerable justification that Whitehead's «metaphysics» can be understood as model - building on a grand scale.

Take in a special planetarium show, explore sun - moon - earth relationships, manipulate models of scale, size, and movement, and build tools to safely view the eclipse.

Creating an organizing model that allows autonomous organizers to mobilize supporters is what inherently scales a campaign, PAC or party's ability to build relationships.

«By enabling entrepreneurs and green innovators to test and scale their business models, homegrown clean technology solutions can help the country build climate resilience, while also creating jobs and fostering economic growth.»

Built in 1989 by Dr. Andrew Hendricks, The Replica Ship The Half Moon is a working, full - scale model of the Dutch vessel noted explorer Henry Hudson sailed in 1609 when he discovered the river that bears his name.

The enormous range of scales (stars, the building blocks of galaxies, are each about one trillion times smaller in mass than the galaxy they make up), as well as the complex physics involved, presents a formidable challenge for any computer model.

This strategy, also known as «procedural modeling,» enables data from different size scales and formats to be integrated into one multi-scale model, building it from the bottom - up and top - down simultaneously, rather than starting with discrete data sets that each describe only one aspect of the model and trying to reconcile them.

They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.

Scale models are built and collected for many reasons including, in engineering, for testing the likely performance of a design object at an early stage without the expense of building a full - sized prototype; in remote control vehicles; and on TV and in the movie industry, for constructing objects or sets that can not be built in full size.

«It fails to recognise that they are built on an urban model, timeline, and scale that is simply unfamiliar to the methods of Western urbanisation.»

Kim expects to consult with engineers building small - scale test models soon.

Then I entered the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, a brightly lit, hangarlike building filled with full - scale models of space station modules and the cockpit of the Soyuz.

When Brown and Osborn originally designed their upright mount, they built a one - sixth scale model of the skeleton, with each bone carved out of wood, and then mounted it on a wire framework.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

The flume will allow researchers to build realistic, 1:1 scale models of 85 % of Dutch coastal defenses.

«We began to create large - scale models; I literally ordered a few hundred toy compasses and started building structures out of them.»

They also hope to use what they learn from simple models of different tissue types to ultimately build functional human tissues like lung and kidney and neural circuits using larger - scale techniques.

In fact, newly designed vessels and rig model prototypes can be tested to encounter in a small scale, before they are built, realistic extreme ocean waves.

Peacock and his team built a carbon - fiber resin scale model of the Luzon Strait, including the islands and surrounding ocean floor topography.

Instead of starting with a full sized model of the turbine, the team built smaller scale versions of the turbines, of which Larry Page stressed that they needed to crash «at least five» to speed up the learning curve.

According to the report, most large - scale data systems that include information on undergraduate students are built to track students in a pipeline model, focusing primarily on full - time or first - time students.

SRNL is uniquely suited to hydrogen production process flowsheet development and TEA using a variety of COTS engineering software to build models from the unit operation to the plant - wide scale and use them in concert with H2A to develop credible estimates of hydrogen production cost.

Future work includes building a multiscale simulation framework that establishes connections between the proposed model to atomistic models based on explicit parametrization of relevant transport and oxidation parameters via appropriate small - scale models.

The BRAIN Initiative is really about developing new technologies to acquire large - scale data because we have new ways to manage those data, analyze them and build models from them.