Tag archives: statics

Engineers should definitely take a peek, and not only them!

1. Area Moment of Inertia

The second moment of area, also known as moment of inertia of plane area, area moment of inertia, polar moment of area or second area moment, is a geometrical property of an area which reflects how its points are distributed ...

A major loss in the for the philosopher community occurred last week.
The Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco passed away, and left a significant void in the intellectual elite of our times.
One of his most known novels was Foucault’s Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault).

Foucault’s pendulum is not just a great ...