Past lessons
Listing of Lessons. Sorted alphabetically A-Z:
Activity - Shake It Up
This activity is design for students to learn about the mechanics behind, and the effects of a phenomenon known as resonance. Understanding resonance in structures and components is important in many disciplines of engineering.
1 rig available- Discipline:
- Civil Engineering,
- Provider:
- UTS::Engineering & IT
Project - Design and Test of Controllers
This lesson contains an example project utilising the shake table rig. Students are asked to analyse control values of displacement by experimenting and studying the effects of several vibration modes on a shake table.
1 rig available- Discipline:
- Civil Engineering,
- Provider:
- UTS::Engineering & IT
Static and Kinetic Friction
This remotely conducted laboratory experiment demonstrates how general textbook theory can be employed to determine the magnitude of a physical constant commonly used in engineering applications.
No rigs available
- Discipline:
- Physics,
- Provider:
- UTS::Engineering & IT
Tension and Compression Forces in a Beam
This lesson is designed to further student understanding of tensile and compressive forces in structural beams. Specifically, to identify beams under tensile and compressive loads and how inertia affects the amount of deflection.
No rigs available
- Discipline:
- Civil Engineering,
- Tags:
- compression,
- elasticity,
- tension,
- Provider:
- UTS::Engineering & IT