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Page 1: Hydraulic Arm - TeachEngineering · Title: Microsoft Word - arm journal.doc Author: Elissa Milto Created Date: 6/19/2006 10:52:00 AM

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Hydraulic Arm

Engineered by

Designed by

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Please describe the challenge in your own words.

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Here are some things I found out about hydraulic arms.

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Here are the answers to the “Arm Investigation” questions.

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These are two different ideas we came up with for our hydraulic arm.

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We have chosen to build an arm that looks like this. I will build ______________________ ______________________ My partner will build ____________________________________________

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Here are the steps we completed as we build the arm. ________________________________________________

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The arm has to pass these tests: 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 3.___________________

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We tested our arm and the following happened.

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Describe one part of your arm that you had to redesign.

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Tell about a good idea you got from someone else.