Enabling law students to understand business concepts: reflections on developing a business case study for corporate law

© 2019, © 2019 The Association of Law Teachers. For many law students the study of corporate law presents several challenges. In addition to mastering the complexities of corporate legislation and case law, corporate law subjects provide many students with their first detailed introduction to business terminology and processes. For many students without previous backgrounds or studies in business, understanding such concepts can prove challenging. This article discusses the development of a business case study that was incorporated into the teaching of corporate law at the University of Technology Sydney from 2016. Drawing upon the extensive literature on strategies for teaching law to business students, the article explains how the business case study was pitched to progressively develop students’ understanding of business concepts covered in corporate law. A series of voluntary online surveys were used to evaluate students’ perceptions of the usefulness of the business case study in developing their understanding of business terminology and processes, with the overall feedback being highly positive. In light of the findings from this evaluation project, the article concludes by suggesting some strategies for corporate law teachers to consider in order to help students develop their understanding of business concepts

The feasibility of sea surface temperature determination using satellite infrared data

Sea surface temperature determination feasibility using satellite infrared dat

The Use of Satellite Cloud Photography to Infer Oceanographic Phenomena

Several years of satellite cloud photography were examined to determine to what extent oceanographic phenomena might be revealed through their influence on the local cloud structure. The region of the Peru Current was selected for the study. As anticipated, indications of known oceanographic features including the Peru Current itself and local upwelling centers were noted. Previously unknown features such as an apparent band of warmer water off the Peruvian coast and anomalous patches of calm water in mid-ocean were also found. A seasonal cloud climatology for the Peru Current area was developed. The importance of coordinated studies using satellites, ships and aircraft is emphasized

Two-dimensional colloidal fluids exhibiting pattern formation

Fluids with competing short range attraction and long range repulsive interactions between the particles can exhibit a variety of microphase separated structures. We develop a lattice-gas (generalised Ising) model and analyse the phase diagram using Monte Carlo computer simulations and also with density functional theory (DFT). The DFT predictions for the structures formed are in good agreement with the results from the simulations, which occur in the portion of the phase diagram where the theory predicts the uniform fluid to be linearly unstable. However, the mean-field DFT does not correctly describe the transitions between the different morphologies, which the simulations show to be analogous to micelle formation. We determine how the heat capacity varies as the model parameters are changed. There are peaks in the heat capacity at state points where the morphology changes occur. We also map the lattice model onto a continuum DFT that facilitates a simplification of the stability analysis of the uniform fluid.Comment: 13 pages, 15 figure

Ideal Bose gas in fractal dimensions and superfluid 4^4He in porous media

Physical properties of ideal Bose gas with the fractal dimensionality between D=2 and D=3 are theoretically investigated. Calculation shows that the characteristic features of the specific heat and the superfluid density of ideal Bose gas in fractal dimensions are strikingly similar to those of superfluid Helium-4 in porous media. This result indicates that the geometrical factor is dominant over mutual interactions in determining physical properties of Helium-4 in porous media.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure

Spontaneous orbiting of two spheres levitated in a vibrated liquid

In the absence of gravity, particles can form a suspension in a liquid irrespective of the difference in density between the solid and the liquid. If such a suspension is subjected to vibration there is relative motion between the particles and the fluid which can lead to self-organization and pattern formation. Here we describe experiments carried out to investigate the behavior of two identical spheres suspended magnetically in a fluid, mimicking weightless conditions. Under vibration the spheres mutually attract and, for sufficiently large vibration amplitudes, the spheres are observed to spontaneously orbit each other. The collapse of the experimental data onto a single curve indicates that the instability occurs at a critical value of the streaming Reynolds number. Simulations repro- duce the observed behaviour qualitatively and quantitatively, and are used to identify the features of the flow that are responsible for this instability

Veritas & Vanitas: A Journal of Student Writing for MTC & OSU

A journal of creative nonfiction produced by students at the Marion campus of The Ohio State University with contributions from the students and faculty at the Marion campus of The Ohio State University and Marion Technical College

Reduced thermodynamic description of phase separation in a quasi-one-dimensional granular gas

We describe simulations of a quasi-one-dimensional, vibrated granular gas which exhibits an apparent phase separation into a liquidlike phase and a gaslike phase. In thermal equilibrium, such a phase separation in one dimension is prohibited by entropic considerations. We propose that the granular gas minimizes a function of the conserved mechanical variables alone: the particle number and volume. Simulations in small cells can be used to extract the equation of state and predict the coexisting pressure and densities, as confirmation of the minimization principle. Fluctuations in the system manifest themselves as persistent density waves but they do not destroy the phase-separated state