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Engineering Design Project: Required Safe Egress Time and Available Safe Egress Time Engineering and Construction Assignment
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In both RSET and ASET, the fire-resisting characteristics for the room have to have some uniqueness that should be a reflection of the purpose to which the room will be put to. It is also important for a room serving as storage for materials that are combustible to be constructed in a way of guaranteeing a fire-resistance value that is high.
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Principle of ASET-RSET and Guidance Engineering and Construction Assignment
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The occupants can be incapacitated or die if they are exposed to elevated temperatures. The increase in fire causes rises in temperature as well as the production of hot smoke. The dilution of smoke may cause increases in the toxicity and optical density of smoke. The maximum temperature that can be allowed for the escape should be less than 1200C. 
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Engineering Personal Development Engineering and Construction Assignment
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Within his/her career life, s/he has undertaken responsibilities as a planning unit supervisor in an infrastructure organization with several engineering and project management roles as well as duties. Nevertheless, s/he is an enthusiastic, ambitious team worker with great potential. As the planning unit supervisor, their career roles include various issues.
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Design of a Simplified Car Suspension System with Matlab Engineering and Construction Assignment
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From this analysis, it can be realized that lower values of damping factor, as well as high values of natural frequency, should be desired when designing a suspension system of any vehicle. So as to achieve this, a spring of high spring constant should be considered and a damper of high damping constant should also be considered. 
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Analysis of a Form of Trebuchet Engineering and Construction Assignment
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Physically speaking it can easily be seen that the counterweight being much heavy in comparison to the projectile mass will in charge of the motion. When the system is looked at in long term it can be seen that the system will exhibit a periodic motion. This system can be seen as being a dual-mass pendulum just like in the case of a metronome. 
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Concepts, Theories and Studies Regarding Compartment Fires under the Influence of Wind Engineering and Construction Literature review
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Compartment fire is a fire burning inside an enclosed space such as a room within a building. The controlling factors of a compartment fire are heat from the burning fuel and the flow of oxygen into the fire [24]. The wind has a great influence on fire behavior by increasing hot smoke and fire growth in the building. 
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Ventilation in Tunnels Fires in the UK Engineering and Construction Literature review
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Both the experimental and numerical studies have been conducted in order to ascertain the extent to which the action of ventilation of fire in tunnels takes place. Simulator models are used in the numerical studies whereas the experimental studies give the computational dynamics of the fluid model of the initial and the boundary conditions.
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Design of Fire Alarm and Detection Systems Engineering and Construction Term Paper
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A functional requirement is an important aspect in the design and construction of a building to ensure that, the building is safe from fire accidents. This has to be attributed to the functional requirement B1 of the Building regulations and review the standard of UK prescriptive and performance-based design guidance. 
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Measuring the Temperature Distribution in Fridge Engineering and Construction Coursework
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The readings are taken when the fridge is filled to varying capacity to establish the rate of temperature drops and also to find out the final temperatures at different points in the fridge after the temperature has dropped to a point of equilibrium with the environment. The readings are taken every ten seconds with a span of fifteen minutes.
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Precise Entrances to Resolving Construction Quandaries Engineering and Construction Lab Report
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The subject has played an important role in shaping my beliefs and benefiting through analyzing, teamwork, and problem-solving, and searching. I improved my knowledge of engineering and also have improved my problem-solving skills in helping in fulfilling the engineering obligations. The subject enabled me to do teamwork.
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Construction and Substances Spark Multiplication Blocks Aid Properties Engineering and Construction Lab Report
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The initial rate of absorption acts as an important factor in determining the bond that exists in a given brick. His would aid in the determination of the nature of the motor that would be utilized. The effects of suction may affect the layers of blocks during construction. The size of the materials determines the porosity of a given material.
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Ethanol as a Disjunctive Combustible for the Wheels Engineering and Construction Term Paper
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The production and use of biofuels have increased significantly presently. The production of ethanol, in particular, is critical to the development of alternative sources of energy in the Codo area in East Timor. The students from this locality have been facing serious challenges for transportation to school which has necessitated the design.
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Determination of Coefficient of Permeability by Constant Head Permeability Engineering and Construction Assignment
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The pressure pad was placed in a position such that the bottom edge of the chamfer was level with the top of the box. The proving ring was then brought into contact with the box by use of the adjusting screw. The yoke was then placed on top of the pressure pad after the ball bearing was placed on the pressure pad.
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Materials Used for Structural Purposes Engineering and Construction Assignment
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The leaning of beams and walls is an indication of an impending structural collapse. This occurs due to excessive loading, the use of defective building materials, poor design and/or geometry, and poor workmanship. Other factors of structural collapse include deteriorated motor joints and sustained fire attacks on the structure.
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Smoke Movement for High Rise Building Engineering and Construction Coursework
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Smoke is a dangerous product of combustion and it has negative effects on safety in a high-rise building during a fire. It is a mixture of hot vapor and gases produced during the combustion process. Smoke forms two areas when it is moving within a high-rise building and it involves the hot smoke zone and cool smoke zone (Ji, et al., 2013). 
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Sheet Metal Processing Engineering and Construction Article
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Profile programs stored in the machine controller are used in computer-numerical-control machines (CNC). This method offers a more user-friendly design, faster communications, better programming features, increased speed and accuracy, and more storage capacity. On the other hand, mechanized cutting uses a tapered tip to offer cutting speed by up to 25 percent.
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The Adoption of British Standards in Relation to Issues of Space Separation Engineering and Construction Coursework
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The system makes use of varied methods that expose a building and allow the viewing of certain parts of the building from different points on the boundary and to ensure visible effective ‘unprotected areas’ are easily calculated. Thus, if an area from the boundary is unprotected then the smaller its effective or notational area is. 
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Metal Forming Methods Engineering and Construction Term Paper
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Mechanical cutting can also be carried out through the use of a punching tool. This subjects the sheet metal to a punching force leading to the cutting process. This method requires a high mechanical punch force during the cutting process. The drilling tools can also be used for the purposes of cutting the metals.
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Fire Spread: Low Fire Load Density Engineering and Construction Assignment
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There are two methods that are useful in giving distances that exhibit desirable accuracy for most applications. The design of these methods is done in such a manner to ensure that there is an overestimate of the distances. In case the overestimate is considered as being undesirable then need to arise to have more refined calculations are.
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Engineering Design Practice: Fire Resistance Testing Engineering and Construction Assignment
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The headroom in the escape routes is expected to be not less than 2m with no projection being below this height with the exception of the door frames. The floors of all the escape routes are supposed to be chosen in a way that will ensure that there is the minimization of slipperiness in wet conditions.
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Experiment With Voltages of 100 Diodes Engineering and Construction Lab Report
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Voltage is plotted on the x-axis, cumulative frequency on the y-axis. Points should be joined together with a curve. Points should be plotted at the highest point in each group. (Point at 535 for the first group, 540 for the second).  
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Acoustic Feedback Systems Engineering and Construction Term Paper
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It was found that the lower steady-state misalignment is derived from variable step sizes. . The implementation variable step size has proved to be beneficial due to decorrelating properties of transform-domain processing in terms of maximum table gain, added stable gain and misalignment, and convergence rate.
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F1 Car and more Powerful Cornering Capability Rounded Way Engineering and Construction Coursework
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Essentially, studying forces that act on a moving body helps one to develop the aerodynamics of the cars that are designed for racing. Therefore, this analysis gives one ideal case that is used to improve the development of the racing F 1 cars. Changing the speed of the car at a given curve with a given radius affects the centripetal force.
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Aerofoils: How Wings Work Engineering and Construction Coursework
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Thick aerofoils are likely to give the desired lift at a low aircraft speed but this would be accompanied by creating drag that is unreasonably high. For one to attain the required lift at a smaller angle of attack the aircraft need to move at a higher speed. The effect of changing the angle of attack is clearly visualized by using the XFLR5 software
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The Principles of ASET and RSET Engineering and Construction Coursework
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The risk of fire in buildings is common due to the nature of activities and the electrical installations in the building. Fire in a building can be caused by several factors and it may lead to the total destruction o property and loss of life. The building design has to consider the concepts of fire safety in accordance with the codes. 
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Aerofoils: How Wings Work Engineering and Construction Assignment
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Ideally the that is immediate to the aircraft aerofoil is supposed to have zero velocity as a result of the air viscosity with the airspeed increasing as you move away from the aerofoil to a point where the velocity changes to a free stream value ( Technical Notes National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1939).
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What Speed Improvement Do Aerofoils Give to an F1 Car Engineering and Construction Coursework
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From able 2 results, it is clear that drivers can negotiate corners which are less sharp at higher speed with no danger of the car slipping but when the corner is sharp the safe speed of negotiating corners is lowered. At 500m radius corners, the F1 car is capable of moving at as much speed as that on a straight racecourse.
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Critical Issues in the Case of Clark and Company Engineering and Construction Assignment
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There is no agreement between its core departments that is engineering and marketing poses a major danger to the company’s operations. Looking at the observations and assessments made on the company’s marketing and engineering departments it is evident that the level of disagreements between the departments is very high.
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The Principle of ASET and RSET with Regards to Means of Escape Engineering and Construction Coursework
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A fire action is mandatory to be included in all buildings where there is a concern for fire safety. During fire incidence, it is important to ensure that there is enough fire marshals, security team, and building staff this being very important in ensuring that nobody moves back to the building unless permitted. 
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Conflict Between Engineering and Marketing Interface Engineering and Construction Assignment
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This assignment also discusses major obstacles in making the marketers and engineers work together in achieving the same methodology for project management is the lack of cooperative culture between engineering and marketing. Some engineers believe that they have the freedom of designing new products.
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Heat Exchanger Device Engineering and Construction Assignment
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Heat exchangers are the devices that are designed to facilitate the exchange of heat between two fluids with heat being transferred from the hot fluid to the colder fluid. In heat transfer of exchangers, convection takes place in each of the fluids while conduction is involved in the walls that separate the fluids.
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Computational Liquid Dynamics and Combustion Territory Design Engineering and Construction Research Paper
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There was also the observation of the various methods of applying water externally through the building. This method involved the use of fog stream into the fire compartment window, the streaming of fog from the floor below to the room window, and also an actual stream of water flowing from the floor below through the window opening.
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Purifying and Air Pipe Method: Energy Waste and Vigor Request for School Engineering and Construction Term Paper
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The power requirement has been calculated for each property type so as to ascertain the electrical demand for each. As a way of ensuring the power demand has been kept to a minimum value, all the power-consuming appliances will have low energy consumption. In order to calculate the power demand for each of the categories of power appliances.
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Modelling and Control of a 1st Order Process: Tank Heating Engineering and Construction Lab Report
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The first part of the experiment is related to determining these parameters through modeling the process equation and evaluating the transient response of the system output to a unit step change in the input of the system. The process is in the form of a small tank of water with an electrical heater.
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Construction Technology: Building Process, Loads and Forces in Buildings, and Failure Modes Engineering and Construction Assignment
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Bulk density is a property used to describe materials existing in form of granules, powders, or any other divide. It is obtained by dividing the mass of all particles by the entire volume occupied. Total volume occupied includes the actual volume of particles, internal pore volume, and antiparticle void volume. 
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Buildings, Materials and Fire Engineering and Construction Assignment
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When a metal is placed in an electrolyte there would be chemical actions depending on the relationship of the electrolyte and the metal itself. There would be an exchange of ions between the metal and the electrolyte. The reaction would either be anodic if the electro is lost or cathodic if the electro is gained.
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Material Properties Lab Engineering and Construction Lab Report
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Engineering materials have different mechanical properties. Hooke’s law tries to examine the characteristic properties by means of a drawn graph, where different materials exhibit similar characteristics. This study is important as it enables the right choice of material, to be used for a given specific purpose. (Hibbeler, pp132-133) 
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Aircraft Structures Experiment Engineering and Construction Assignment
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All the apparatus meant for this particular experiment were made available. These included a deflection measurement machine, load to be applied on the structure, a ruler for measuring lengths of the various framework members, and a four-bay statically determinate framework composed of rigid spring members. 
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Mechanical Systems Reliability Engineering and Construction Assignment
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The choice may be determined by adding variables like cost which may not necessarily rely on cash but may also be dependent on time. A relationship between the cost of the component and its reliability may be determined as a first priority. Furthermore, the cost function of the components needs to be quantified.
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Fires in Buildings Engineering and Construction Assignment
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On 20 November 1992, a fire incident took place in Windsor Castle to the west of London, which is one of the official residences of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The fire has destroyed some of the essential parts of the building along with severe damages to the building. The fire broke out because of spotlight ignition in a curtain. 
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Introduction to Combustion and Fire Engineering and Construction Assignment
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In solid-state, the molecules are closely arranged with strong intermolecular forces that give rise to a fixed shape and volume. In liquids, intermolecular attractions keep the molecules in close proximity but not in a fixed spatial relationship, i.e. liquids have a definite volume but lack distinct shape, taking shape of their containers.
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Chronological Design and Development of Construction Project Engineering and Construction Coursework
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A concrete frame is a beam frame system and is very economical in the building. It does not require finishing, painting, or fire protection. It forms suitable structures for warehousing, community halls, and sports halls. The frame consists of reinforced concrete fixed to the columns. Reinforced concrete frames have a thermal expansion.
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Construction Management and Fire Safety Engineering and Construction Essay
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Essentially, for the roofing, the material necessary for this area is the use of Celotex insulation, which can stay as long as roofing for the area without developing any complications. This is because it has high performance with high thermal requirements. Actually, the roof is the only area that is not easily accessible for repairs and it is better to have stronger roofing.
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Geotechnical Race Mesh and Incline Determination Engineering and Construction Coursework
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From the calculations, it can be concluded that the earth dam is well designed in terms of stability with the downstream slope being slightly more stable than the upstream. The F.S. in both cases is higher than the recommended values and this makes it possible to use change soil parameters without the slopes reaching the unstable zone.
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Designs Solutions with the Architect and Building Control Officer Engineering and Construction Assignment
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Glass is a supercooled liquid that has an amorphous property and this is what makes it react to heat in a different manner as compared to other materials. As metals change from solid to liquid quickly on exposure to heat, glass takes a long period of transformation and on maximum heat, it resembles a semi-liquid material.
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Fire Investigation on Scarborough Civic Hall Engineering and Construction Coursework
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From the entire mentioned incident we are able to conclude that the fire outbreak may have been caused by the defective electrical appliances and fitting within the hall, Furthermore, the public reported that member within the congregation had been burnt during the occasion by a heater, and the personality was not identified within the given time. 
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Combustion and Fire: Assessment Engineering and Construction Assignment
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Whenever a chemical reaction involving adding oxygen to the compound and losing electrons occurs, the same is oxidation while a complex chemical reaction involving oxygen so as to break the combustible organic compound into carbon-di-oxide and water accompanied by the release of heat and light, the reaction is termed as combustion. 
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Enclosure Fire Dynamics Engineering and Construction Assignment
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Radiation can be described as the process in which energy travels through space to be absorbed by another body. Some features associated with radiation include electromagnetic wave spectrum, black body (emissive power and spectrum), opaque objects, and some laws that define thermal radiation (Mahan, 2002, p. 89). 
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Aircraft Design: Turkish Airports Specifications Engineering and Construction Assignment
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The slot on the other hand is located at the front or back of the wing and adjusts the airflow to the wing hence enabling the wing to function more effectively. Powered high-lift devices influence the airflow on the wing’s exterior by using airflow emanating from the engine hence modifying the flap’s function. 
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Electronic Components Engineering and Construction Assignment
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Because we have the frequency generator 1 kHz with amplitude 8V and Vl=-7.6V. Vi=+8V, one can be used as the lower level of the input while the other the higher level of output and where there is a simulating circuit of higher 2, R2=4.7k we will apply the sine generator to the input frequency of 1 kHz and amplitude 8V.
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