The Small Bridge vs The 10 Pound Goliath
Hey Visitor, in this class called Urban Planning we talked about the physics and math behind building a bridge. The history of architectural artifacts in history, where compression & tension exists in the bridge, why we need to know these things; and the math formulas required like law of sines, cosines, Potential and Kinetic energy. After learning this we were asked to create a bridge that was able to support 10 Ibs while only building the bridge with glue sticks and 75 popsicle sticks. We didn't have a draft of the original building because we knew our idea will progress further and improve but the one that we ended up using is this. My partner and I had numerous conversations about the type of triangles we would use for our bridge. We believed that choosing the right triangles was crucial because they needed to support the weight effectively. The main challenge we faced initially was figuring out how to make the bridge stand. We decided to start by building a foun