Lab Report                                                                Name: ____________________

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Electric Fields

In step 9 you are asked to draw the conductors’ locations on the graph paper and label them with the voltage readings of your voltmeter.

In step 10 you are asked “How far does this path go? Sketch this pattern on your graph paper and label the line with the voltage you chose”

In step 12 you are asked to predict the path it would take by drawing a line with your colored pen or pencil.

Questions:

A.    What generalizations can you make from this exploration?

B.     Where would a positive test charge have the least potential energy?

C.     How much energy must you add to the system to move 1 electron 1 m in a direction along one of the equal potential lines?

D.    If lightning strikes a tree 20 m away would it be better to stand facing the tree, your back to the tree, or your side to the tree? Assume your feet are a comfortable shoulder width apart.  Explain your answer.

Note:  Your results will look different from the sample above since you will use a rectangular dish, place your conductors in different positions, and use a 1.5V battery, but it still illustrates the concept of electric field mapping.

Problem:

a. Analyze Ryan Boot Company, using ratio analysis. Compute the ratios on the bottom of the next page for Ryan and compare them to the industry data that is given. Discuss the weak points, strong points, and what you think should be done to improve the company’s performance.
b. In your analysis, calculate the overall break-even point in sales dollars and teh cash break-even point. Also compute the degree of operating leverage, degree of financial leverage, and degree of combined leverage.
c. Use the information in parts a and b to discuss teh risk associated with this company. Given the risk, decide whether a bank should loan funds to Ryan Boot. Ryan Boot Company is trying to plan the funds needed for 2011. The management anticipates an increase in sales of 20 percent, which can be absorbed without increasing fixed assets.
d. What would be Ryan’s needs for external funds based on the current balance sheet? Compute RNF (required new funds). Notes payable (current) and bonds are not part of the liability calculation.
Ryan Boot Company Balance Sheet December 31, 2010
Assets
Cash $50,000
Marketable Securities $80,000
Accounts Receivable $3,000,000 Inventory $1,000,000 Gross Plant & Equipment $6,000,000 Less: Accumulated Depreciation $2,000,000 Total Assets $8,130,000 Liabilities & Stockholders’ Equity Accounts Payable $2,200,000 Accrued Expenses $150,000 Notes Payable $400,000 Bonds (10%) $2,500,000 Common Stock (1.7 million shares, par value $1) $1,700,000 Retained Earnings $1,180,000 Total Liabilities & SE $8,130,000 Income Statement Sales (credit) $7,000,000 Fixed Costs* $2,100,000 Variable Costs (0.60) $4,200,000 EBIT $700,000 Less: Interest $250,000 EBT $450,000 Less: Taxes @35% $157,500 EAT $292,500 Dividends (40% Payout) $117,000 Increased Retained Earnings $175,500

*Fixed costs include (a) lease expense of $200,000 and (b) depreciation of $500,000. Note Ryan Boots also has $650,000 per year in sinking fund obligations associated with its bond issue.
The sinking fund represents an annual repayment of the principal amount of the bond. It is not tax-deductable.
Ratios that need to be calculated for Ryan Boot Company. The ratios shown are for the industry. Profit Margin 5.75% Return on Assets 6.90% Return on Equity 9.20% Receivables Turnover 4.35 Inventory Turnover 6.50 Fixed Assets Turnover 1.85 Total Assets Turnover 1.20 Current Ratio 1.45 Quick Ratio 1.10 Debt to Total Assets 25.05% Interest Coverage 5.35 Fixed Charge Coverage 4.62

Answer the following questions 2 SEPARATE WAYS –  BASED ON THE STORY BELOW
Some intellectual writers from Argentina said that it was because of the Barbarians that the country was in terrible shape and that it was because of them that they had Rosas, the dictator in Argentina, in power.
1.- What do you think of this terms? (base your answer on the reading)
2.- Do you think there is discrimination in this text and why?
3.- why do you think this is consider a Romantic Short Story?

El Matadero

The second section of this course deals with Romantisism in Latin America. It goes from 1810 to 1860 aproximately. The first reading is The Slaughter House (El Matadero), which was written two century ago by the Argentine poet Esteban Echeverria (1809-1851), is included today among the outstanding classics of Latin American literature. It is one of the very earliest works of prose fiction written in America by an American and dealing with American characters and background. A disciple of Byron who resided in Europe during a period of revolutionary upheavals and literary insurgence, Echeverria was a romantic poet and a liberal inspired by the new ideals of democracy. Any form of tyranny enraged him. ‘That is why he hated the Dictator Rosas and his

henchmen, the Federalists.

The Slaughter House is a genre painting reminiscent of Hogarth and Breughel in its grotesque realism and caustic details. But, above all, it is a virulent political diatribe against the Federalists and their Fuhrer Rosas, and, by indirection, a defense of the Unitarians, who championed the democratic tradition to which Echeverria was devoted body and soul.

Even if one overlooks its political and propaganda content, one may still consider The Slaughter House of great significance: it provides a picture, unsavory though it often is, of Buenos Aires in 1830, and it utilizes in its naive style a terse, colorful idiom peculiarly Argentine. But what is perhaps most remarkable is Echeverria’s strange juxtaposition of realism and surrealism, which makes the comparison to Breughel so striking. By way of illustration: into the filth and mire of the slaughter house, so truthfully depicted in the realistic tradition of the Spanish picaresque, suddenly falls the severed head of a child (surrealist surprise) while its trunk propped on a forked pole of the corral spouts blood from innumerable jets. Even the denouement-the undaunted Unitarian congested with anger, bursting like a ripe fruit has much of surrealism in it. In Echeverria, as in Kafka, unreality blossoms from the most mediocre, everyday reality.

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