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Vocabulary Pre-Test

Center of Gravity

Stability & Base

30-second Wooden Tower - Tallest Tower Wins

Balance a Textbook on One Finger

Find The Center of Gravity (CG)

60-second Sport Stacking Cup Tower - Tallest Tower Wins

Newspaper Towers

Newspaper Tower versus The Leaf Blower Investigation - Stability

How to Draw a Double-Bar Graph

Newspaper Tower Stability Graphs

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Structures & Stability Quiz 1

Understanding Concepts Page 153, #1+2

9 Blocks Investigation - Magnitude & Plane of Application

Did You See That? - An Exercise in Observation & Estimation

Mean Median Mode Range Minimum Maximum

Static Loads & Dynamic Loads

Lunar Lander

Tension, Compression, Torsion, & Shear

Structural Projects

Egg Support Newspaper Towers

Stronger Beams

Building Bridges Investigation - The Truss

 

 

 

 

 

Structures & Stability Vocabulary

arch	center of gravity	compression	dead load	frame
stability	structure	live load	magnitude	force
plane of application	shear	base	stable	tension
truss	torsion	weight	span	balance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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