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Bridge Building
Spring '02
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1st Period Bridges
2nd Period Bridges

I hope he knows what 
he's doing because 
that just looks weird.

Callie wonders "How long will it be before 
Courtney realizes I glued him to the table?"

Boy I wish this involved horizontal trajectories
... I could use the challenge!

The ladies step aside from building the bridge to allow Jay, who felt left out, to glue one stick.
 

Now, if we take what we learned in calculus about derivatives and apply it to the force distributed on the compression truss, we can maximize the tension forces leading to the abutments and ...
(yeah, right)
 

Holly looks on with confidence
(or is it amusement?)
On to Page 2 ... the completed bridge designs.