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Stress, Strain and Hooke's Law
Students study Hooke's Law and stress-strain relationships. In this spring lesson students create a strain graph in Microsoft Excel.
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Detecting Breast Cancer
Students develop a painless means for identifying cancerous tumors. In this imaging lesson students list the information that may be needed to answer the problem.
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The Structure of DNA
In this the structure of DNA learning exercise, students read a passage about the structure of DNA in bacteria and then relate that information to answer the questions given.
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Determination of Tensile Stress-Strain Common Properties in Materials
Students demonstrate the relationship between stress and strain, then graph stress-strain curves for various common materials. Students interpret graphed results and discuss differences in mechanical properties of materials.
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Canadian Sports Massage Therapists Association
Homepage of professional sports massage therapists in Canada. Basic information on sports massage therapy benefits, training courses, books, and recent journal articles are all included.
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Kids Health: Repetitive Stress Injuries
Repetitive stress injuries are a result of the overuse of a particular body part. This uncomfortable feeling can be treated and prevented. Learn what you can do in this article to avoid such an injury. Links to similar sites are also...
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Kids Health: Dealing With Sports Injuries
Injuries resulting from overexertion while participating in sports are inevitable. However, by understanding how they can be prevented, cared for, and their recovery time, you can become better prepared. Links to related articles are...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fancy Feet
Students use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem - shoe engineering! Working in small teams, students design, build and test a pair of wearable platform or high-heeled shoes, taking into consideration the stress...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Deformation: Nanocomposite Compression
Students learn about nanocomposites, compression and strain as they design and program robots that compress materials. Student groups conduct experiments to determine how many LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT motor rotations it takes to compress soft...
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Teach Engineering: Applying Hooke's Law to Cancer Detection
Students explore Hooke's law while working in small groups at their lab benches. They collect displacement data for springs with unknown spring constants, k, by adding various masses of known weight. After exploring Hooke's law and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: You Be the Radiologist!
In addition to the associated lesson, this activity functions as a summative assessment for the Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer unit. In this activity, students will create a 1-D strain plot in Microsoft Excel depicting the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Detecting Breast Cancer
This lesson introduces students to their task of developing a painless means of identifying cancerous tumors. Solving the challenge will depend on an understanding of the properties of stress and strain. After being introduced to the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Stress, Strain and Hooke's Law
This lesson offers an introduction to Hooke's Law as well as stress-strain relationships. Students will first learn the governing equations. Then students will work through several example problems first individually, then as a class. In...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!
This lesson culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, students must depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a graph in Microsoft Excel. In addition, students will design a...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Elasticity
Over 30 equations which define quantities which server as measurable parameters of an object's elasticity are given. Some equations are derived and the derivations are explained. Highly technical!
Savvas Learning
Prentice Hall: Elasticity and Fracture
From the Prentice Hall companion web site for the Giancoli Physics textbook. A series of interactive questions on the topic of elasticity and fracture. Questions 11 through 19 pertain to the stress-strain relationship for elastic...
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Grant Design: Glossary of Materials Attributes Breakdown
This resource contains a lengthy list of definitions of a variety of material properties related to solid strength and elasticity. The definitions are accompanied by equations and metric unit information.
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Kids Health: Knee Injuries
If you're involved in sports and your knee becomes injured, chances are you'll have to sit out. Learn more on this site about the types of knee injuries, what doctors do to fix the injury, and how they can be prevented. Links to similar...
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Kids Health: Strains and Sprains Are a Pain
In addition to describing how one might get a strain or sprain, this article offers well-organized, clear advice for those caring for their sprained or strained muscles. Links to related information included.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Geological Stresses
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How geological stresses affect rocks.
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Kidshealth: Broken Bones, Sprains, and Strains
What happens when you break a bone or get a strain or sprain? Find the answer at this website, and also find instruction sheets on first-aid care for broken bones, strains, and sprains.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Stressed and Strained
Students are introduced to the concepts of stress and strain with examples that illustrate the characteristics and importance of these forces in our everyday lives. They explore the factors that affect stress, why engineers need to know...
Learn Engineering
Learn Engineering: Theories of Failure
This article and video will introduce students to the theories of failure. Learn the equations used for maximum principal stress, maximum normal strain theory, shear strain energy, and total strain energy. The article discusses all...
University of Virginia
University of Virgina: Structural Behavior and Design Approaches
From the Introduction to Structural Design web site. A page of well-written lecture notes on the various structural qualities of building materials. A comparison is made of the strength, stiffness, stability and ductility of materials,...