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During the chаnge оf shift repоrt, the dаy shift nurse gets а repоrt on the assigned patient, who has 1 liter of IV fluid started at 0300 to infuse over 8 hours. The IV has tubing that has a drop factor of 15 gtt/mL. To ensure that the IV is infusing on time, the nurse would expect to count _______ gtt/min and approximately _______ mL of fluid in the IV bag at 0800.
The reаsоn the Eаrth did nоt оutgаs its carbon dioxide as Venus did was because of ____.
Pаssаge 1 Light Engineering [A] We use light tоdаy fоr everything frоm laser eye surgery to telephone technology. In fact, our lives are built around light, and our daily existence is continuously shaped by light, which dates back to the beginning of time. [B] Charles Townes was showing a helium-neon laser in his laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. "This is a very pure, straight beam." He has hundreds of lasers, including some that arrive in the mail as gifts, lasers smaller than matchboxes, and green lasers that are soothing to the eye. All of these lasers are descendants of technology that Townes and his brother-in-law Arthur Schawlow invented in the 1950s. [C] Light normally spreads out rapidly in all directions, but a laser coheres and amplifies the light in a narrow beam. The key to producing this beam is the basic atomic principle that says that a photon, the fundamental particle of light, can be captured or emitted by atoms. When an electron changes from a high-energy state to a low-energy state, its atom will emit a photon. A laser exploits this process. [D] A laser starts with a crystal or other medium whose atoms are prone to high-energy excitement. These atoms are hit with light, causing their electrons to do a little dance. When they calm down, they release excess energy as photons. Then those photons induce more electron dancing, which creates a chain reaction, producing more photons. It is physics, not magic, that causes more light to come out than went in. [E] At first, some expressed concern that the invention of lasers would begin a new era of military death rays. However, Townes and Schawlow were not sure how technology might take advantage of their invention a half century ago. They just knew they had figured out a way to make light shine strong and straight. [F] It is hard to overstate the usefulness of a tool that makes light shine straight. "People used to kid me, 'Lasers are a solution looking for a problem,'" Townes says. He thinks about that every time he goes to the checkout line at the grocery store, where light is used to scan the price of every product. When you make a long-distance phone call, your words are transmitted by laser light along a fiber-optic cable. A laser reads the CD in a CD player. "When a friend comes to me and says laser surgery saved his eyesight, that's a very emotional thing," Townes says. [G] The world's largest laser is an hour east of San Francisco in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The laser is actually 192 individual beams of light, grouped in bundles of four, which travel the length of a building 213 meters long and 122 meters wide. Each laser bounces off a mirror into a target chamber, which is a nine-meter diameter sphere that looks like a giant golf ball from outer space. [H] Inside the chamber, the laser beams crash into a gold-plated cylinder containing a gas-filled pellet. The gases in the pellet, under the pressure of all this light, compress to the point where they induce nuclear fusion. "The goal is to create a miniature star in the laboratory," says Ed Moses, the NIF project manager. In the long term, scientists at NIF hope to use this information to produce cheap, pollution-free electricity. [I] According to physicist Vaughn Draggoo, "NIF will produce more power in a one-nanosecond laser pulse than all the power generated in the rest of the world at that moment." How can light be such a useful source of energy? "Because you can compress a lot of light's energy in a very small point," says Moses. Children discover this when they play with a magnifying glass on a sunny day. Light has no volume, and photons have no charge, so when they are concentrated into a very small space, they do not repulse each other like negatively charged electrons do. "They don't bother one another," says Moses. [J] The telecommunications industry loves light. When you visit Lucent Technologies Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, a sign says, "Welcome to Photon Valley." [K] Kathy Szelag, a vice president with Lucent's Optical Networking Group, told me, "People like my parents think we're in the Star Wars part of optical networking. We're really in the crude oil part of optical networking. We're just at the beginning." Bob Windeler, an optical-fiber researcher, added, "The amount of information you can put on a fiber more than doubles every year." In theory, a single fiber could someday transmit every phone call on Earth simultaneously. [L] Lasers are used to beam different wavelengths of infrared light down a single fiber. Each wavelength is its own data channel. Right now, a fiber can carry dozens of these channels, but that could become thousands or even millions. "It's as close to a miracle as there is," says Dave Bishop, Lucent's vice president of optical research. [M] George Gilder, a technology expert, has declared that light technology will lead to a communications revolution. "You can envision a point where everyone in the world could have his own wavelength," says Gilder. "You'd have one wavelength that connected you to the person you wanted to address in Vienna or Tokyo or Tierra del Fuego, and this wavelength could easily accommodate three-dimensional images. You could have conversations in which you forget that the real person is not present. You see a face, and the image saturates your own optical capabilities." [N] Modern physics emerged from the study of matter and light. Modern cosmology, including the revelation that the universe is expanding, came from the detection of faint galactic light. [O] Some scientists predict that computing will eventually be based on light. Computer engineers could create devices that use light beams instead of silicon chips. Light could become the main power source for long-distance space travel. The spaceship would have an ultra-thin sail to catch the "wind" of light beamed from an Earth-based laser. In theory, such a craft could accelerate to a sizable fraction of the speed of light without carrying fuel. [P] It is certain that light will remain extremely useful for industry, science, art, and our daily lives. It is an amazing tool, a carrier of beauty, and a giver of life. It surely has a very bright future.