. . . it seems like a bad, bad thing that the only thing I was able to pull from that article was that it was missing a comma.
Mostly, I don't understand the importance. Structures aren't supposed to move in relation to each other, right? Except . . . things WILL shift, because that's just what things do over time . . .
And it seems like it'd be simpler to assume that things won't be moving when trying to work out a problem . . .
Then again, I guess I have the excuse that I haven't even graduated from high school. (Though I have a GED.) Damn. I need myself a college education. >Oh, oh, wait. I think I get it. Is this a way to make things so that they, in fact, won't shift? Like, it takes into account every conceivable force and counteracts it
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Statics are a physics thing were you deal with calculating forces on a stationary object. (So the net force has to be 0). Thus the reference to civil engineering, (civil engineers design buildings, which essentially amounts to one massive statics problem).
Though this lab was not as bad as some of the others. For one, the equipment only broke once.
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...It's one of those sophomore level engineer classes that seperates the would-be engineers from the rest.
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Mostly, I don't understand the importance. Structures aren't supposed to move in relation to each other, right? Except . . . things WILL shift, because that's just what things do over time . . .
And it seems like it'd be simpler to assume that things won't be moving when trying to work out a problem . . .
Then again, I guess I have the excuse that I haven't even graduated from high school. (Though I have a GED.) Damn. I need myself a college education. >Oh, oh, wait. I think I get it. Is this a way to make things so that they, in fact, won't shift? Like, it takes into account every conceivable force and counteracts it ( ... )
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Though this lab was not as bad as some of the others. For one, the equipment only broke once.
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