Rod in tension (25 pts) In a suspension bridge, cables are hung vertically to support the bridge deck. You are working on such a bridge and have to instrument one cable with 1 strain gage to measure the vibrations in the bridge. By sign convention, you select that the voltage of your 1/4 Wheatstone bridge is positive if the strain is positive (cable is in tension). Assume you have a standard Wheatstone bridge as seen in class.

(a) On which branch of the Wheatstone bridge will you connect the strain gage?

(b) You wish to increase the sensitivity of your measurement, by using a 1/2 Wheatstone bridge. Where will you connect the second strain gage in the Wheatstone bridge and how would you mount it on your cable?

(c) Could you build a full Wheatstone bridge to monitor the cable? Explain why.

(d) Could you still use 4 strain gages to increase your sensitivity? Draw how you would mount them on the cable and connect them on your Wheatstone bridge.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

eager to consume a lot of food? insatiable appetite?

explanation:

wht excerpt u need to add it

dependent clause!

example: "before the food gets cold"