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This document contains the assignment details for MECH 260-102. Students are asked to write short biographies and contributions to mechanics of materials for 16 scientists and engineers in two separate problems. The assignment is due on September 22, 2010 at the tutorial session.

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This document contains the assignment details for MECH 260-102. Students are asked to write short biographies and contributions to mechanics of materials for 16 scientists and engineers in two separate problems. The assignment is due on September 22, 2010 at the tutorial session.

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MECH 260-102 Assignment 1

(Due on 22 September 2010 at the Tutorial Session)

Problem 1
What does the subject Mechanics of Materials concern? What is the importance of this
subject in engineering?

Problem 2
The following are some scientists/engineers who have made important contributions to
the subject of Mechanics of Materials:
Archimedes (287-212 B.C.)
da Vinci (1452-1519)
Galileo (1564-1642)
Newton (1642-1727)
Bernoulli (1667-1748)
Hooke (1635-1703)
Euler (1707-1793)
d’Alembert (1717-1783)
Lagrange (1736-1813)
Coulomb (1736-1806)
Laplace (1749-1827)
Poisson (1781-1840)
Saint-Venant (1797-1886)
Castigliano (1847-1884)
Galerkin (1871-1945)
Timoshenko (1878-1972)

For each person,


(i) Write a short biographical sketch (one paragraph, not more then 10 lines)
(ii) Indicate the important contributions he made to the subject of Mechanics
of Materials (one paragraph, not more than 7 lines)
You may obtain the necessary information through on-line search or literature review in
library.
Note: You should not simply copy what I have given in my ppt presentations.

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