Materials Vocab

Define the following terms in a comment to this blog.

Save a copy for yourself for reference. Due Friday.

Material Categories:

• Alloy
  
• Carbide
  
• Ceramics
  
• Composite
  
• Compound
  
• Elastomers
  
• Element
  
• Ferrous
  
• Metal
  
• Nitride
  
• Organic
  
• Oxide
  
• Polymer
  
• Thermoplastic
  
• Thermoset

Material Properties:

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

Be prepared for a quiz later this week!

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Material Properties

For each of the following material categories, provide 5 examples.

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

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Follow these links...

Please follow THESE INSTRUCTIONS.... username: ssca, password: ssca.

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Welcome Back!

Hope that you all had a good break.

We're going to be spending a few more days studying statics.

WooHoo!

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Thank an Engineer

After I torture you with another statics problem, we're gonna check out these videos...

• MP3's
  
• Texting
• Wireless
• This guy suffered 8 assasination attempts before the man got him...

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StaticsTube

If you can understand and expound upon the ideas in THIS VIDEO, then you have my permission to sleep in class tomorrow.

And I'm definiately joking about the sleeping part.

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Mo' Statics

Here's the link to that online calculator, make sure you switch from radians to degrees.

Here's a link to an online triangle solver, for right angles, set Angle C to 90 deg. 

Today, we're reviewing the math review sheet and beginning an activity on free-body diagrams. 

Woot!

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Statics

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

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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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Robo-Wrapup

We're reaching the end of our robotics studies. 

Make sure that you have all Activities turned in (4.4a-4.5h)...

...BY THURSDAY!!!

Today is our last day to finish up with the Sumo cars.

Friday is when we'll actually be testing the cars.

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Activate

We should/ could be getting through Activity 4.5f today if we really work quickly. 

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RoboPro

Today we're starting the RoboPro Tutorials...

Fischertechnik

Fischertechniks

Check this out...

This too...


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I ROBOT

We're starting our unit on control systems today.

The circuit assignment is due tomorrow.


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Electricity

Let's solve this circuit.


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Electricity Vocab Terms

Do By Friday for Homework.

Define the following electrical terms by posting a comment to this blog or by hand.

1. Analog
2. Current
3. Digital
4. Generator
5. Hysteresis
6. I/O
7. Interface
8. Load
9. Magnetism
10. Memory
11. Motor
12. Ohm's Law
13. Parallel
14. Power
15. Processor
16. Receiver
17. Rectification
18. Relay
19. Resistance
20. Semiconductor
21. Series
22. Solenoid
23. Strain
24. Stress
25. Switch
26. Synchronous
27. Transducer
28. Voltage
29. Watt's Law

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Electricity

We're starting a new unit on Electricity today.

Check out this Java applet...


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Friday

Today is for Fluid Power presentations.

The take-home is due Tuesday.


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Fluid Power Wrap-Up

Yeah... I thought you'd go for a take home quiz...

To conclude our work on fluid power, I'm going to let you guys do some of the fun stuff...

Your assignment:

• Due first thing on Monday (02.09.09)
  
• Write a "test-style" question for each of the 4 Fluid Power Laws.
• Each question must include a clear problem statement and a diagram.
• example:

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Fluid Power

Today's assignment is NOT to be done in groups:

• Draw a schematic diagram (single view, not to scale) of your group's fluid power system.
• Label all of the items, subsystems, elements, and other stuff in your diagram.
• On a seperate sheet, write a paragraph about how the fluid power laws fit into your system. Consult the PowerPoints that I handed out for details on the laws.

btw: Your PoierPoints should be completed for tomorrow.


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Monday

Continue on with the fluid power research.

Each group should upload their work at the end of class.

These should be done by the end of class tomorrow.


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Lo Siento

Lo siento, pero no aqui hoy.

With that being said, you should all be hard at work with your Fluid Power research.

**Just a reminder**
I want to see your progress at the end of class Monday!
NO EXCUSES!!!


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Welcome Back

We're still working on the Fluid Power Activity today...

New Terms

Define the following:

• Accumulator
• Actuator
• Bernoulli's Law
• Boyle's Law
• Centrifugal
• Charles' Law
• Compressor
• Diaphragm
• Displacement
• Dynamics
• Filter
• Fluid
• Fluid Tank
• Hydraulic Fluid
• Kinetic Energy
• Pascal's Law
• Pressure
• Pump
• Reciprocating
• Regulator
• Statics
• Temperature
• Valve
• Viscosity
• Volume

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MIDTERM

Your comprehensive Midterm exam is scheduled for Wednesday @ 7:49a-9:10a.

You are permitted a 3"x5" piece of paper for the exam as a cheat sheet {equation sheet}.


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