Friday, February 22, 2013

Activity 2.1.7 Week 7

This week we worked on calculating Truss Forces. Something that was useful that I learned was 2J=M+R. The J meaning joints, M: members and R: reactions. Thus helped us solve static determinacy.




Thursday, February 14, 2013

Trusses

This week we took on Trusses! We worked on taking the angles and lengths of each of the parts. At times it was a but confusing, but we got through it.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Moment Calculations

Wednesday in class, we worked on calculating moments. Probably the most difficult part was converting from grams to newtons. Though my group was successful in completing the task!