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Fairly Fundamental Facts about Forces and Structures
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Students are introduced to the five fundamental loads: compression, tension, shear, bending and torsion. They learn about the different kinds of stress each force exerts on objects.

Subject:
Physical Science
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Douglas Prime
Date Added:
02/17/2017
Forces All Around
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Through a series of three lessons, each with its own hands-on activity, students are introduced to 1) forces, loads and stress, 2) tensile loads and failure, and 3) torsion on structures—fundamental physics concepts that are critical to understanding the built world. The associated activities engage students through experimenting with hot glue gun sticks to experience tension, compression and torsion; the design of plastic chair webbing strips; and problem-solving to reinforce foam insulation "antenna towers" to withstand specified bending and twisting.

Subject:
Physical Science
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Date Added:
02/17/2017
Investigating Torque
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This lesson focuses on torsion as a force acting upon structures. Students will have the opportunity to design something to withstand this force.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Douglas Prime
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Make Today Beautiful
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This is what our friend, Mr. Rogers has taught us. Life lessons of love and compassion for all. 

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Reading
Author:
Graci Mills
Date Added:
04/28/2020
Mechanics Map Open Mechanics Textbook
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Open textbook in statics and dynamics for engineering undergraduates. Covers particles and rigid bodies (extended bodies), structures (trusses), simple machines, kinematics, and kinetics, as well as introductory vibrations. Includes text, videos, images, and worked examples (written and video).

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Adaptive Map Digital Textbook Project
Author:
Agnes d'Entremont
Douglas Miller
Joan Kowalski
Majod Chatsaz
Jacob Moore
Date Added:
03/11/2019
Mechanics & Materials I
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This course provides an introduction to the mechanics of solids with applications to science and engineering. We emphasize the three essential features of all mechanics analyses, namely: (a) the geometry of the motion and/or deformation of the structure, and conditions of geometric fit, (b) the forces on and within structures and assemblages; and (c) the physical aspects of the structural system (including material properties) which quantify relations between the forces and motions/deformation.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Livermore, Carol
Schmidt, Henrik
Socrate, Simona
Williams, James
Date Added:
09/01/2006
Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time
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The "small wonders" to which our course will attend are moments of present time, depicted in the verbal and visual media of the modern age: newspapers, novels and stories, poems, photographs, films, etc. We will move between visual and verbal media across a considerable span of time, from eighteenth-century poetry and prose fiction to twenty-first century social networking and microblogging sites, and from sculpture to photography, film, and digital visual media. With help from philosophers, contemporary cultural historians, and others, we will begin to think about a media practice largely taken for granted in our own moment.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
English Language Arts
Film and Music Production
Graphic Arts
Literature
Reading Literature
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jackson, Noel
Date Added:
09/01/2010
Sum It Up: An Introduction to Static Equilibrium
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Students are introduced to static equilibrium by learning how forces and torques are balanced in a well-designed engineering structure. A tower crane is presented as a simplified two-dimensional case. Using Popsicle sticks and hot glue, student teams design, build and test a simple tower crane model according to these principles, ending with a team competition.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Alison Pienciak
Nicholas Hanson
Stefan Berkower
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Wimpy Radar Antenna
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Students reinforce an antenna tower made from foam insulation so that it can withstand a 480 N-cm bending moment (torque) and a 280 N-cm twisting moment (torque) with minimal deflection. During one class period, students discuss the problem, run the initial bending and torsion tests and graph the results. During the following class periods, students design, construct and test sturdier towers, and graph the results.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Brad George
Douglas Prime
Date Added:
09/18/2014