Do-It-Yourself Engineering. Episode 2, Exploring the Science of Structure
(2019, original release: 2017)

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Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2017
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (34 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
6756767
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

Get started on DIY project number two: use cardboard to build a tower capable of supporting a 100-pound gravity load and a 10-pound lateral load simultaneously. This exercise closely replicates problems faced by real-world skyscraper designers. In this lesson, use vector math to analyze the forces exerted on each structural element of the building

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Stephen Ressler

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2017

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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