Read the Fine Print
Educational Use
Working individually or in groups, students explore the concept of stress (compression) through physical experience and math. They discover why it hurts more to poke themselves with mechanical pencil lead than with an eraser. Then they prove why this is so by using the basic equation for stress and applying the concepts to real engineering problems.
- Subject:
- Engineering
- Geometry
- Life Science
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Jeffrey Mitchell
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014