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Originally Posted by Greg Needel

i think you will like this and i had to do a similar thing when i took statics

Take a picture of a robot from last year (profile view) holding a tetra in the air and solve for the reactions at each one of the tires, or prove that it wont fall over. all you will need is the dimensions of the robot, the weight of the robot, weight of a tetra, and the angle of the arm (which can be done by trig). Take the photo into photoshop (or equivolent software) draw dimention lines on the picture and put that at the top of the page above the solution. Your professor will be impressed.

I've selected a problem very similar to this. Thanks for the idea. I had thought of it before, but to hear someone else mention it makes me think it is indeed a good selection.

For Ken, would you mind explaining why that is true? I don't intend to use that example in my report, but it seems interesting nonetheless.