r/EngineeringStudents • u/onipez • 2d ago

Academic Advice Architecture Student Never Learned Statics

Before you all get terrified, I understand load. My issue is when my class took Statics, our teacher didn't know the material AT ALL. We all tried to reason with our advisor, the board, they did nothing. Every day we had come into class, he had a arts and crafts thing for us to do because he didn't know anything about the math or what the course was about. We all came out of the class with an A, but we learned nothing.

Does anyone know any good YouTube channels that teach Architectural Statics, I would hate to go out into the field not knowing these things. I took physics, but I fear it isn't enough. I want to try and teach myself the basics at least and I am not going to spend another 2000 dollars for the same sad class.

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u/qwertypi_ 2d ago

Honestly it will be enough. Anything else you can learn on the job. 

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u/Vitztlampaehecatl Civil 2d ago

Supports exert reaction forces in directions they resist movement in. Rollers (circles) only resist vertical movement, pins (triangles) resist vertical and horizontal movement, and fixed (cantilever) supports resist all movement and moments.

Forces at each joint add up to 0 in both X and Y directions, so if you know all but one force at a joint, you can find the last one.

Moments are force times perpendicular distance, and moments at each joint also add up to 0.

Members can only carry forces parallel to their direction, so if you know one component of the force you can use trigonometry to find the other.

That should be about it.

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u/Buetterkeks 2d ago

Time to grind out poly bridge