Objective: Students familiarize themselves with various engineering measurements
(length, area, volume, mass/weight, density) in the exploration of an engineering optimization
problem (maximization of volume).
Materials: Each student will need
- Scissors
- Heavy Tape (masking or packing)
- Thin-line marker or marking pen
- 4 sheets of 8.5 x 11 card stock paper, imprinted with a
graph-paper grid of 1 cm x 1 cm squares
- Web browser connection to the Volume Applet
- Web browser connection to the Graphit Applet
The exercise also requires
- Kitchen scale (5lb/2kg or 25lb/10kg)
- Sand (~4 lbs)
- Marbles (~4 lbs)
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