Word: modulus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taught by Associate Professor Erik Mollö-Christensen. First, Mollö-Christensen holds a lottery, and the number each student draws corresponds to something in the lab-a piece of wire, a piece of plastic tubing or of plywood. Working in pairs, the students are required to determine the modulus of elasticity of the material they drew. Two students, working with a piece of brass, determined its elasticity by measuring the speed at which sound passed along it. Explains Mollö-Christensen: "They can do it any way they want to-so long as they find out." On another project...