Journal Entry Day 5- Technical Drawing Part 3

1. Describe a design process you have used. Include all of the phases involved and some information about each phase that illustrated how you reached your decision.

When designing a webpage, one has to first make aout a sketch, where you can get a general idea of what the website is going to look lik.e Then, I setup the tables so that the layout is how it is supposed to look. After that, I add in the images and backgrounds to make it nice-looking ( and similar to the way that I designed it to look ). Lastly, I populate it with content, and then I publish it.

Journal Entry Day 6- Entry 1

1. How did the lake affect the placement of your building? Did you consider a possible flood plain when you placed the building? Were there other effects that the lake had on your building’s placement?
We don't want to place the structure on the lake, and we wound't want to place it too close, because if the lake were to flood, the house would be screwed.

2. How did the slope of the terrain affect the placement of your building? Did you consider access to the building both by car and by foot?
If there was an earthquake, the building may slide off of its foundations and into the lake so we tried to place the building on the flattest part of the terrain as possible.

3. How did the sun help determine the placement of the building? Will the windows on the south-facing facade be a problem with the hot summer sun?
The sun helped us to determined that the house should be placed near the hill to the south, so that the southern-facing windows would not get as much sun as the northern.

4. What role did the evergreen trees play in the selection of your building’s location? Were you able to use them as buffers for the northeasterly winds?
We did not have any evergreen trees with the terrain.

5. How were views from inside the house considered when placing your building?
The views should be over the lake.

6. What affected the placement of your building the most and why?
The slope affected the building the most, because the flatter the slope, then the less it costs, and the less chance of danger from any natural disasters.

Journal Enrty Day 10- Entry 1

Compression - 1. What happens to the height of the column?
The column gets shorter.

Compression - 2. What happens to the column as the load increases?
The column gets shorter and the base widdens becuse the material cn no longer go downward so it moves outwards.

Compression - 3. How does the added midpoint support increase the load capabilities of the column?
The column doesn't compress as much, and is able to support more weight.

Compression - 4. From the activities, would you conclude that when designing a compressive member, it is important to take into consideration how long the column is, or provide a center support for stability against buckling?
Yes, it is important to consider how long the column is, because if it is too long and has too much weight on it, then it will buckle.  If a weight constraint is put upon the colum this can be prevented.

Tension - 1. As the inner tube experiences tension from the forces of your hands, what happens to its length? How much does the inner tube change?
It gets longer.

Tension - 2. Does the length increase more, less, or is it the same? How much does it change?
The length increases less, becuase there is less material being stretched.

Tension - 3. In both activities, would you say that one hand experiences more force than the other or are they about the same? With the inner tube, do your hands equally apply the force, or is one area of the inner tube experiencing more force than the other?
The hands apply differing amounts of force becuase one hand will always be stronger than the other.

Tension - 4. From these activities, would you conclude that the change in length of a tensile member, one that is capable of being stretched or subjected to stress, is proportional to total length of the tensile member? What types of materials would you determine would be good under tension?
Yes, because the length depends on how much material there is available to stretch and the amount of tension enforced upon said material. Good materials that have these properties might include plastic and rubber.

Bending - 1. Place the two blocks on the table 34" apart and place the yardstick on top of the two blocks so that it is laying down, not standing up. Apply a downward force to the middle of the yardstick and describe what happens.
The yardstick bends down into a convex form due to the downward force upon it.

Bending - 2. As the load increases, what happens to the two blocks? What is causing the two blocks to kick out, the bending, or the applied force?
The blocks move outwards because as the force from the bending reaches as far as it can go the base will widden and  redistribute the force throught the object.

Bending - 3. Does it bend more or less, than it did while it was on its side?
It bends much less.

Bending - 4. If you were constructing a building with wood floor joists (beams to which the boards of a floor are nailed), what would be the best way to place them, standing up or lying down? Why?
I would lie the boards on their side, so that they would be able to withstand more downward force.

Journal Entry Day 13- Entry 1

1. Most of the students live with their parents in the skyscraper suburb. The school must be located within walking distance of public transportation. How does your design relate to public transportation?.
We have to place it close to the locally available public transportation, bus or train, so that the students of the high school can easily go between school and home.

2. Near which outdoor activities have you located your building? How do you envision the students using these resources?.
The school is close to the “Prototype Pool”, “Potential Energy Park”, the “Laser Lake”, and “Bernoulli’s Bike Path”. The students would be able to use recreation such as canoeing, swimming, and biking, respectively. They could also be used for studies of the subjects that they may have; kinematics, physics, biology, etc.

3. The parents of "technologically challenged" children are concerned that their kids are undereducated and need more exposure to technology-oriented activities. The mayor wants to know how your school plans to rectify this problem in the selection of the school’s location.
They are close to the “Inventor’s Island”, the name of a place that seems like there would be many technological advances occurring.

4. What would you name the high school?.
“Technotown High School” – the name of the town, with High School appended. Always works.