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3 Types of frame residential bearing wall

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Bearing Wall

Heavy Timber

Light timber

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Live load

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Loads in a structure that involve movement

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How do bearing wall structures work

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Joist spread that weight out dispersing load to the bearing walls

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Number stamps on lumber are called

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Select Structural (lower grade is better)

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Girder

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Main beam that supports other smaller beams

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Sill Plate

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Lumber that is bolted to the top of the basement cement wall to attach the house

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Rim Joist

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Lumber on wall that the joists are attached to

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Trimmer Joist and Headers

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Rim joists that are used on openings in the floor for stairways

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OSB sf

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Oriented Strand Board

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Oriented Strand Board

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Pasted strips of wood often used for flooring

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Deflection Failure

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When joist bends angularly beyond breaking point

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Lateral Torsioning

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When a joist turns sideways and structure falls

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Platform structures use which kind of joist sizes?

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Long and tall but supported

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Studs are attached to floor and ceiling with

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Sole plate and top plate

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Header

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Wooden beam over there door

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Sheathing

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Wooden walls on studs that prevents buckling

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Truss

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Beam between rafters that holds it together

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Purposes of building envelope

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  • Sheds rainwater
  • Prevents ice pentration
  • Prevents groundwater infiltration
  • Removes internal moisture
  • Insulates
  • Fire resistant
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Roofing felt is usually sold in

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36 inch rolls

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Flashing

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Strips of sheet metal for preventing leaks at intersections

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Tar has been replaced with

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Housewrap, which is like an ikea bag.

It’s good cause it doesn’t let water through, but allows vapor to pass

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Cladding

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The outside layer like siding or brick

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Hydrostatic Pressure

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Pressure caused by the water’s own wet

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Aquifer

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Underground fresh water supply

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Algae blooms are caused by
fertilizer runoff
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Methods to deal with algae in reservoir
Copper Sulfate Mechanical filtering Limit water runoff Underwater aerator
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Anoxia cause and issues
Depletion of oxygen at the bottom of reservoir by copper oxide. Kills fish and anaerobic bacteria gives weird smell
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3 basic functions in water filtration plant
Clarification Filtration Disinfection
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Clarification steps
Filter out big things Coagulation with agitation (clumps things you don't want) Flocculation (clumps sink)
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Filtering steps
Filter with stones and coals Disinfected with chlorine, O3, or ultraviolet light
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Coal impurities
Hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen
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Coal layers and types
Peat Lignite Subbitumous Bituminous Antracite
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Long wall mining
Wall collapses behing machine as it mines coal
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The king of machines
Drag line
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Gasoline is mostly made of
C6-C8
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Fractionating
Boiling crude oil to collect only the right alkanes
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Fracking
Using a combination of liquids down a boar hole to extract more oil, but it is environmentally problematic
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Benefit of oil power plants
It uses the waste product of oil refinery that has no other use
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Natural Gas Power uses what instead of boiling water steam
Combustion Turbine (Jet) running on the natural gas combustion
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Combustion Turbine parts
Compressor, combustion system, turbine, driveshaft
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Advantages of gas vs coal power plants
Far less environmentally toxic Less footprint Easily shut off and on
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Fissile Material
Material capable of sustaining the chain reaction with nuclear fission Usually Uranium 235
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Hyperboloid Cooling Towers Cools with zero energy usage as the top collects cool air and bottom absorbs water.
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Penstock
Tube in a dam that transfers water to the turbine
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Enginerring Parts of a wind turbine
Turbine uses bernoulie's principle to use lift the blades up Nacelle is programmed to change direction and has a generator. Includes a gear box and keeps it at constant pace by rotating the blades
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Why 3 blades on a wind turbine
Only 6, then 3, then less power generation per blade making the extra blade inefficient
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Megawattage comparison of wind turbine to coal plant
1.5 mega watts to 1500 megawatts
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Two types of solar power
Solar thermal Solar voltaics
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How solar thermal power works
Thermal energy uses mirrors to heat an oil to 750 c which boils water to generate steam
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How Ivan Pah solar plant works
3 water towers are heated by hundreds of mirrors.
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Photovotaics
Uses solar radiation to cause photovotaic effect Free electrons cause a current
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Electrical Transmission Trail
Switchyard Transmission Feeder Regional Substation Local Substation (down to 120 volt)
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How to caculate size changes due to temperature
Thermal Deformation
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How does radio work?
Electrons when moving cause electromagnetic radiation
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Why are wires twisted and in rubber?
To limit electromagnetic radiation
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FM Radio Waves at 100 mhz are how long?
About 10 feet long
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Why can rain and fog affect signal strength?
The waves are so short that they can be degraded by rain and fog
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Things to know about low vs high frequency waves in radio
High frequencies can carry more information but are so short they cannot go far and are affected by interference
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Cell phone mhz range
700-2400 mhz
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Difference between a cell phone and walkie talkie
Cell phone uses two bands for two way communication Cell phones are digital
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How do cell phone companies manage millions of people within the same frequencies?
Space Division Multiplexing Areas are separated into hexagonal cells, the cells around use different frequencies
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Biggest difference between 1g data and 2g data
2g is digital, allowed text messages Incorporated time division multiple access
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Multiple Access
Frequencies and channels are split into time components so fast the user doesn't notice.
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3g updates
Code division multiple access (spread spectrum)
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Code division multiple access
Using full range of frequency spectrum but has a particular coding that only your phone recognizes Like recognizing only one voice in a noisy area
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If a phone doesn't find its System Identifier Number it will
Roam for one
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Closest and furthest points of a satelite to the earth
Perigee and Apogee
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Piston Strokes
Induction stroke Compression Stroke
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Carburetor
Regulate the amount of oxygen and fuel for combustion
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Fuel Injection
Sprays fuel into each intake port
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Alternator
Belt driven generator that provides power to the car
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Parts of bridge girder
Flanges (top and bottom) Web Diaphragm
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Belt and supenders engineering
Taking absolutly every reasonable precaution, and having a backup plan if it fails
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3 Types of Tunnels
Cut and Cover Bored Tunnel Immersed tube tunnels

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