HigherEd 2.0

Homework 7 is now available for pick-up outside my office. Please re-file your folder in alphabetical order after removing your work. Grade appeals for HW7 will be accepted until Friday Nov. 17. Average on this assignment is 15.16 +/- 6.75. There were 6 students who did not submit this assignment. […]

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Cables are important, although our coverage of them in class is limited due to time constraints. I urge you to consider what we said in class today, especially the example about the bridge span at the end of this module. You will have at least one homework problem on cables in the next […]

 Module 19, Nov. 6 2006: Download

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Exam 2 is scheduled for Thursday 11/9 at 6.30-8.30 pm in E303 Thornton Hall. If you have a hard conflict you must contact me ASAP! Some details:

4 or 5 problems, all from Chapter 5 and 6
bring 1 sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper, and you can write on both sides […]

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Here are the solutions to Homework 8.

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This is a basic shear and moment problem with distributed load. I know, this is a homework problem this week, but it’s such a nice problem that I thought it would make a good video. Have a look and carefully listen to what the procedure is, and to how I methodically go about […]

 

 Video solution: Prob. 7-50 [22:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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The solutions for Homework 6 and Homework 7 are now available. Have a look and use them as you study for the exam next week. Also, note that I accidentally included the solution to Prob. 6-48 in set 7, and I will include the solution to Prob. 6-78 in set 8 (to be […]

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This module contains our discussion of some of the very common problems/issues that you will face as you solve shear and moment problems. I hope that this will be a good resource for you to review as you do the homework, and that it will help remind you of some of the practical issues […]

 Module 18, Nov. 1 2006: Download

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I recently realized (yesterday, as I was grading and filing some homework), that I had not done a very good job of updating you on homework performance. On the other hand, some of you have not done a good job of retrieving your graded materials from the folders outside my office. So let […]

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Jama Coartney from the Robertson Media Lab in Clemons Hall will run several training sessions on how to actually create your podcast. It is insanely easy using GarageBand. Jama will train you in about 90 minutes to create your podcast, import the images, do the voice-over, sync the audio and images, add music […]

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