Summer Break

Thanks for the awesome year guys!

Enjoy your summer!

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Kinematics Vocab

Define the following:

• Acceleration
• Displacement
• Force
• Gravity
• Law of Gravitation
• Newton's Laws
• Newton's First Law
• Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Third Law
• Particle
• Velocity

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Material Properties Vocab

DUE WEDNESDAY (4/21/10)

Define the following terms either on paper or in a comment to this blog post:

• Acoustical
• Brittle
• Chemical
• Composite
• Compression
• Creep
• Crystalline
• Density
• Dimensional
• Ductility
• Electrical
• Fatigue
• Fracture
• Grain Size
• Gravity
• Hardness
• Inclusion
• Magnetic
• Mechanical
• Optical
• Phase
• Porosity
• Resistance
• Spatial Configuration
• Strain
• Stress
• Tensile
• Thermal
• Toughness

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Remote SSL-VPN

Log into Windows

• From Home: https://208.108.210.121/
• From CSHS: http://remote.cantonlocal.org/
  
• Accept all SSL exceptions
• Choose either Java or ActiveX; install all controls needed

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Categories of Materials

Our assignment today is to find the following information for the each of the material categories found below and compile your findings in a Word [OpenOffice] Document:

• Organics
• Metals and Alloys
• Polymers
• Ceramics
• Composites

There are 5 material categories:

• 4 Examples
• 4 Properties
• 4 Applications
• 4 Images

You'll have the whole class period.

The assignment is due at the start of class Monday.

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Strength of Materials

Define the following terms in a comment to this blog (due Tuesday):

• Buckling
• Centroid
• Compression
• Deflection
• Modulus of Elasticity
• Moment of Inertia
• Reaction
• Shear
• Strain
• Stress
• Tension

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Biggest Suspension Bridge

Wow

http://livelabs.com/

Statics ?'s

Answer the following:

1. Whats the difference between a scaler quantity and a vector quantity.
2. Whats a moment (in the context of engineering)?
3. What are the forces that act on a bridge and how is failure prevented?
4. What factors are considered for the type of bridge selected for a given location?

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

~Albert Einstein

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

~ Niels Bohr

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Write the magnitude and direction of the resultant vector addition on the chalkboard:

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Statics Vocabulary

Define the terms in a comment to this blog:

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

Thursday

Something to ease us back into the swing of things:

• Moving Atoms
• Wind Power

Now we're going to finish up the electricity packet.

Fluid Power

Fluid Power Test Questions:

• Study the following Fluid Power Laws
• Bernoulli's Law
• Boyle's Law
• Charles's Law
• Pascal's Law
• Here are my notes on the laws...

• Your assignment is to write a test-style question which covers each of the 4 fluid power laws.
• 1 problem per page.
  
• You MUST include a word-problem type description for the problem as well as a diagram.
• Use plain white printer paper of a self-made digital printout for the diagram.
  
• There must be some sort of mathematical calculation.
• Make it a multi-part question for extra credit.
• There must be at least one question using the metric system units, and one question using the standard system units.
  
• You must also include a solution to your problem.
• This is NOT an easy assignment.
• It is due Thursday

Tuesday - Still no Howard

Top-o-the-morning to ya!

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To start off today, we're going to have a short quiz. Please answer the following questions WITHOUT AN INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE!!!

FOR THIS QUIZ, PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A PIECE OF PAPER AND TURN IN TO THE SUBSTITUTE ME.

1. Compare and contrast conduction and convection.
2. Draw a diagram which illustrates conduction in action, draw a diagram which illustrates convection.
3. List 6 types of energy.
4. Define the following
   

• Viscosity
• Diaphragm
• Reciprocating
• Hydraulic Fluid
• Centrifugal

You have about 15 minutezs to complete the quiz.

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AFTER THE QUIZ...

• Study the following Fluid Power Laws
• Bernoulli's Law
• Boyle's Law
• Charles's Law
• Pascal's Law
• Here are my notes on the laws...

• Your assignment is to write a test-style question which covers each of the 4 fluid power laws.
• 1 problem per page.
• You MUST include a word-problem type description for the problem as well as a diagram.
• You must also include a solution to your problem.
• This is NOT an easy assignment.
• It is due Thursday

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Monday

Hello future engineers of Canton South. I will not be here the next few days, and thus will be communication with you all via the class blog site.

DUE THURSDAY:

• The thermodynamics assignment that I passed out last week is due in its entirety.
• If you lost or never received the assignment, DOWNLOAD THE ASSIGNMENT HERE, DOWNLOAD THE SUPPLEMENTAL R-VALUES HERE

For In-Class Today:

• Read THIS POWERPOINT. It is also located in /Shared/PLTW/Howard POE/Fluid_Power.ppt
• Define the following terms in a comment to this blog:

1. Accumulator
2. Actuator
   
3. Bernoulli's Law
   
4. Boyle's Law
   
5. Centrifugal
   
6. Charles' Law
   
7. Compressor
   
8. Diaphragm
   
9. Displacement
   
10. Dynamics
    
11. Filter
    
12. Fluid
    
13. Fluid Tank
    
14. Hydraulic Fluid
    
15. Kinetic Energy
    
16. Pascal's Law
    
17. Pressure
    
18. Pump
    
19. Reciprocating
    
20. Regulator
    
21. Statics
    
22. Temperature
    
23. Valve
    
24. Viscosity
    
25. Volume

For Tomorrow:

• Be prepared for a Thermodynamics vocab quiz.
• Be prepared for a Fluid Power vocab quiz.

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History of Space Travel

From yesterday's video, discuss what you feel to be the most significant development in thew history of space travel.

• What was the development?
• Who was involved?
• Why is it so important?
• What events led up to this development?
• What event followed from this development?

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Thermo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb05CaG7TsQ

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Quizlet

Answer the following in a comment to this post.

1. What is work?
2. Compare/ contrast conduction vs. convection.
3. What is an R-value?
4. List and describe 4 types of energy.
5. A calorie is a unit of what?
6. Why is a rabbit as it spins?

Answer the questions below, after defining the following terms:

• British Thermal Unit
• Calorie
• Chemical Energy
• Conduction
• Convection
• Density
• Elastic Potential Energy
• Electromagnetic Energy
• Gravitational Potential Energy
• Heat Capacity
• Heat Engine
• Infiltration
• Kinetic Energy
• K-value
• Mechanical Energy
• Nuclear Energy
• Radiation
• R-Value
• Thermal Energy
• Thermodynamics
• U-Value
• Work

1. How can I take the energy from a camp fire and use it to cool my ice chest?
2. How does a jet engine move an airplane?

DUE AT THE END OF CLASS TODAY

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MouseTrap Car Final Report

Mouse Trap Car Final Reports are due at the end of class tomorrow!

Materials to be submitted:

• Cover Page - Project title, picture, name, period, date, etc.
  
• Preliminary Sketches - paper and pencil concept development
• Inventor Model - Orthographic & Isometric views - must have dimensions
• Engineers Report - write a short report describing and defending your design
• Completed Vehicle - evaluated on: Matches drawing/model - Quality of construction

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