Thursday, March 26, 2009

Statics

You have all of class today to work on the Activity that was handed out yesterday.


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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Statics











Define the following terms related to statics:

  • Abutment
  • Arch Bridge
  • Beam Bridge
  • Cable Stayed Bridge
  • Compression
  • Equilibrium
  • Force
  • Free Body Diagram
  • Friction
  • Impending Motion
  • Mass
  • Moments
  • Newton's Laws
  • Resultant
  • Scalar Quantity
  • Suspension Bridge
  • Tension
  • Vector Quantity
  • Weight

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