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Entries from January 2007

Homework 1 assignment and open thread

January 19th, 2007 · 24 Comments

This is homework assignment 1. Due date is Friday 1/26 at NOON.
All problems are from our textbook.
Review of statics: 1-5, 1-11, 1-17, 1-23
Stress: 1-34, 1-38, 1-59, 1-65
Clearly, there are lots of other problems in the text, so you have plenty of opportunity for practice on these types of problems. Feel free […]

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Tags: MAE 231 Strength of Materials · Homework (MAE 231)

A shear and moment reminder…

January 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I have had some students already asking for a small refresher on some statics contents. This is great–I really hope you will all take an honest accounting of what you are and are not confident about concerning statics. If you have troubles, I am happy to discuss and get you on the path […]

 
icon for podpress  Shear and moment example, Prob. 7-50 from Statics: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Tags: MAE 231 Strength of Materials · Video Solutions (MAE 231)

Seriously, let’s not have this go to our heads…

January 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Yet another small article about our little contest has appeared, this one in the E-News for January 2007. This is a repackaging of the article originally written by Brevy Cannon, and it gets the word out to an even broader audience. There is a rumor that one of the podcasts from the ENGR […]

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Tags: Uncategorized · MAE230 Statics · Podcast Project (MAE 230)

Module 1 podcast and feed instructions

January 17th, 2007 · 5 Comments

This is the podcast for lecture module 1. You should download this file to your desktop by right clicking, then open it in iTunes or Quicktime.
You can subscribe to the podcast feed by opening iTunes, clicking on “Advanced>Subscribe to Podcast”, then type in the URL in this screenshot. Note that you […]

icon for podpress  Lecture module 1: Jan. 17 2007: Download

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Tags: MAE 231 Strength of Materials · Lecture Modules (MAE 231)

Book information and current course syllabus

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

I wanted to post two links for books in the CE 231 course. Click here for our textbook, and click here for a Schaum’s outline with lots of solved problems and practice problems. Obviously it’s important to have access to the textbook, especially since all our homework problems will be from the book. […]

icon for podpress  Module 24: an example lecture podcast: Download

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Tags: MAE 231 Strength of Materials · Announcements (MAE 231)

The Explainer…

January 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Just wanted to let you know that we will have a new category on the blog coming soon…The Explainer! It will be the location for alternative coverage of certain topics, deeper explanations of things, and also links to related issues we may not have covered very deeply in class. I may even occassionally […]

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