Crash Course Engineering

Skyscrapers, Statics, and Dynamics (1x26)

Air date: Nov 29, 2018

What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying? Today we’ll explore statics and dynamics, and what they mean for the structures we design. We look at the idea of static equilibrium, forces, and torques, and how free body diagrams can help us make sense of it all.