Essays on Balsa Wood

Chapter 11, pg. 427: Denver Goes Alfresco

- What type of problems was the consolidated city-county government of Denver, Colorado, experiencing with documented management before instating the Alfresco ECM system?

Before the introduction of the Alfresco ECM system, the consolidated city-county government of Denver, Colorado experienced many problems with the documented management system. Before introducing the Alfresco ECM system, more than 70 of the consolidated city-county government used 14 different documented management systems, none of which could communicate or interact with each other (Laudon & Laudon, 2012).

The information Technology department had to manually supervise many stand-alone autonomous IT units with their own systems and standards. Using a decentralized system created problems, including document sharing, document security, and the ability to audit record keeping functions, especially financial records and scanned ...

A glider is defined as heavier than air aircraft supported in the air by dynamic air reactions against its lifting surfaces. Normally, its free flight does not depend on an engine. Most of the gliders do not have engine, though the motor gliders have engines meant for extending their flight when requires and some are powerful allowing them to take off. Because of their specialized use, gliders are quite different from powered airplanes. This is made obvious by several characteristics. One is the completely different arrangement of the landing gear, a result of the lightweight of the aircraft and the ...

Prototype Description

The glider prototype has a standard tail and is going to include regular wings made of paper that will act as a representative of an actual glider. Two pieces of wood of the same length are joined to meet at a ninety degree angle. Another two pieces of woods are added to support the glide structure.

Construction

The Balsa glider prototype is constructed using four pieces of wood. Two pieces wood of the same length (each 30cm in length) are attached together at an angle ninety degrees. The two remaining pieces are placed variably to cross each other and meet at the ninety ...