JEOPARDY!

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Click Once to BeginJEOPARDY!Structures and Forces


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• Each team will have until the music stops playing to write down their answer.

• Teams with the correct answer win the corresponding points.

• For the Daily Double all teams must first wager a point amount before the clue is given.

• The team with the highest score at the end of the game wins.


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Designing with Forces

Stable Structures

Mass and Forces

Mix and Mash


This is the strongest shape.


Triangle


In order to increase movement, you want

less of this force acting on the joint.


Friction


Spider webs are pulled very tight. They are high in this type of strength.


Tensile Strength


When a car bumper collapses in a

collision, this type of stress has occurred.


Bend/buckle


List 5 things you’d need to consider when designing a

tennis racket


Function, aesthetics, safety, cost and

materials.


When something is less likely to tip, we say that it is more

_______ .


Stable


The measure of the amount of matter in

an object.


Mass


The units used to measure mass.


Kilograms (kg)


Daily Double!!!


This particle attracts many other particles in all directions


What is rubber?


To completely describe a force,

you need to determine both _____ and size.


Direction

(ex. to lift a box, you need to exert a force

of 50 N upward)


The spring scale in the grocery store

was used for finding the mass of the fruit

to be purchased. Locate the error in

the above statement.


A spring scale is used for measuring weight, not mass. A balance is used for measuring mass.


This force stretches a material.


Tension


Mountains and feathers are

examples of these.


Natural structures.


Rivets, dowels and screws are all

examples of this type of joint.


Fasteners


Wind, people, and furniture are all examples of this type of external

force.


Live load


A teeter-totter has many scientific

aspects. Name 5.


1. Mobile joint at 2. Fulcrum 3. Rigid joint at handle.

4. Must have a high shear strength.

5. Friction must be high where handle connects

6. Friction must be low at pivot.

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