Assessment - Please give an SII of your team performance up to this point in the course.
Free-writing – Please discuss one or two
points in our analysis of the bicycle and
Reading Quiz #1
Assessment – Please give an SII on your performance for the homework in this course so far. How well do you follow the procedure used by the book, how well do you show your work, what % of problems have you completed, etc.
Free-writing – Please write down what
you view as the two or three most important points about performing force
analyses for systems of forces acting on an object. Expanding on your points by illustrating with an example may be
helpful.
Reading
Quiz #2
Free-writing
– Please
note one HW problem in the last week that was relatively easy for you. Describe the problem, how you solved it, and
why it was easy. Contrast this with one
HW problem in the last week that was very difficult for you. Describe the problem, what your points of
confusion were, and how you resolved the problem to reach a solution.
October
3, 2005
October
5, 2005
October
10, 2005
None - no writing topic today
October
12, 2005
Assessment – Please assess your
performance in any or all aspects of the course up to this point. How are you doing in terms of achieving your
goals and how will you make sure to achieve them as we go on?
October
17, 2005
Reading
Quiz #3
October
24, 2005
Assessment – Please assess your use of
the break to move forward on your design project, get caught up on all of your
assigned hw to this point, and make sure you are comfortable with the concepts
in the course.
October
26, 2005
Free-writing – Please explain how to
determine the x,y,z moment equations when applying the equations of equilibrium
to a system.
None – no writing topic today
November
2, 2005
Reading
Quiz #4
Assessment – Please give an assessment
of the work available to look at for the design project of the OTHER team at
this point (a few days before design report #2 is due).
November
9, 2005
November
14, 2005
Exam
November
16, 2005
None
– no
writing topic today
November
28, 2005
Free-writing – Please describe one aspect
of frame analysis that seemed different from what you had done in general
equilibrium analysis and one aspect of machine analysis that you have not done
before along with how you expect to incorporate your new machine analysis
concept into the static equilibrium procedures for analysis that you have been
performing.
November
30, 2005
December
5, 2005
Free-writing - Describe the similarities
and differences between the method of joints and the method of sections.
December
7, 2005
December 12, 2005
Free-writing
– In your own words, how do you go about determining the normal, shear, and
bending moment in a beam?