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Did you know that casino dice are generally hand made? Or that they are perfectly cubical to within one five-thousandth of an inch. That's some pretty impressive engineering. It seems that dice have been in use for quite some time, and show no signs of being replaced any time soon. Find out some more interesting facts about this simple implement. |
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Monday 29 October, 2007 07:09 PM |
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Engineers can find many uses for non newtonian liquid. Essentially it is a liquid which changes it's viscosity depending on whether it is being agitated or not. What on earth does that mean? Well it means you can have some fun with it (there are probably some actual uses for non newtonian liquid too but I'll leave that up to you to come up with).
And it turns out that for the sake of playing about with some of this liquid yourself it is very easy to make.
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Monday 29 October, 2007 12:06 AM |
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Well you remember back in school when you learnt about the pythagoras theorem and it was pretty cool (well maybe you didn't but if you're an engineer you probably did). You learnt about the areas of triangles and all was good, then along came funky software and you probably haven't used it since.
Turns out this nifty little formula may be a little more useful than you expected. Run your eyes over this a few times and see how you can take advantage of this formula in investigating the relationships of many other items.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 06:10 PM |
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I saved the image and cut the 2 squares out and put them side by side and they are in fact the same yet no matter how much I look at the picture I just can't see the two as being the same shade.
This is really quite cool and I wish I could come up with an engineering application for it.
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Wednesday 24 October, 2007 08:02 PM |
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As strange as it may sound, in a group of 23 people, the odds are greater than even that someone else in that atleast 2 of them have the same birthday. Doesn't quite sound right to me but there you go.
How does this relate to engineering? It doesn't really except to illustrate that probabilities aren't always what you might expect.
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Sunday 21 October, 2007 09:56 PM |
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