Anincreasing number of production processes are being controlled by machines rather than men.
7.Increasing the number of machine-controlled production processes we shouldn't forget of the difficulties involved. 8. You have certainly heard of their having increased the number of machine-controlled processes.
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1. The cinema being built in our street is of modern design. 2. Being built of stone and plastics the cinema will look fine. 3. This is a good beginning. 4. Having taken the examinations, he went to his native town. 5. Examples being given by the teacher in class help the students to understand the rule. 6.He read the document without looking at us. 7.Technique having reached a high stage of development, new methods of work became possible. 8.He succeeded in presenting the necessary material. 9.He displayed great skill in designing this new device 10.Ring me up before going to the University. 11.Reading books is a necessary part of our studies. 12.Without constantly studying it is impossible to learn to translate original texts. 13.Having been asked for the book, the librarian promised to look for it. 14.This man was greatly interested in collecting minerals. 15.A great many young people studying at various educational establishments combine work and studies. 16.By doing so he helped me greatly. 17.The students were writing when we entered the room. 18.All the students having finished the translation in time, j we could check it in class. 19.The conversation was interesting, many physicists taking part in it. 20.The painting represents a young girl. 21.Who does the cooking in your family? 22.Many bridges over the river having been built, it became possible to reach the distant part of the region. 23.Would you mind switching on the TV set? 24.He failed bringing us the necessary materials. 25.Having achieved the necessary results, we decided to describe them in our article. 26.Learning rules without examples is useless.
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Brownian motion is named after the Scottish botanist, Robert Brown, who discovered it in 1827. He was making a routine examination under a microscope of some pollen grains suspended in water when he noticed they were all vibrating. [Vibration is a movement first in one direction and then back again in the opposite direction. It is exhibited, for example, by a swinging pendulum. Random vibrations are exhibited by the molecules in matter. Any simple vibration is described by three factors: its amplitude, or size; its frequency, or rate of oscillation; and the phase, or timing of the oscillations relative to some fixed time.] At first Robert Brown thought this was because they were alive, but the same thing happened with small particles of dye that were obviously dead. The smaller particles moved around more than the larger ones and there was no sign at all that they would ever settle down. We now know that this motion is due to the bombardment of the particles by molecules of water (or any other liquid or gas in which they are suspended). The bombardment takes place from all directions and normally the resulting forces on the particle cancel out. With a very small particle, the number of molecules hitting it will also be smaller. Exact cancellation of the forces is therefore less likely to occur, making the particle move. The movement of molecules was quite unknown when Brown made his discovery. This had to wait till Maxwell had worked out the kinetic theory about 40 years later. Relating the kinetic theory to Brownian motion had to wait another 35 years, when in 1905, Einstein published a theoretical analysis of Brownian motion. He saw it as a crucial test of the kinetic theory, even of the atomic/molecular nature of matter. Previous discussions of the phenomenon had all been qualitative—Einstein demonstrated that careful observation of Brownian motion could reveal the actual size of molecules, that is, find Avogadro’s number. Einstein worked out all the mathematical details. His formula predicted the distance the particles would move in a certain time according to their size. He was even able to relate this to the size of the molecules causing the motion. Soon after, experiments confirmed Einstein's theory and gave good values of molecular and atomic sizes. Even though the atomic theory of matter was 100 years old by this time, there were still a few eminent scientists who thought that atoms were merely a convenient fiction. Einstein's analysis of Brownian motion finally convinced even the last remaining diehards that molecules really did exist, for here was the first time that their effect could be directly observed rather than deduced.
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