Learning Styles, Strategies, and Age in Second Language Acquisition

Learning Styles and Strategies in Second Language Acquisition

Personality Factors in Second Language (L2) Differences (how people perceive information):

  1. Process: Common among humans (association); aptitude (Gardner’s Theory) [the ability in the nine intelligences].
  2. Styles: Consistent individual preferences; characteristics of intellectual functioning; personality type (visual, tolerant of ambiguity, reflective).
  3. Strategy: Mode of operation for achieving goals; planned design for controlling certain
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Stability of Equilibrium and Buckling Analysis of Struts and Columns

Stability of Equilibrium and Buckling Analysis

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Ch.7 notesStability of Equilibrium – Consider a slight displacement from the equilibrium position of a rigid weightless bar. The equation -(kLsinΘ)(LcosΘ)-P(LsinΘ)=0 simplifies to P=kLcosΘ or P=kL. Three cases are considered:

  1. If P < kL, the bar force restores the position.
  2. If P = kL, the spring force cannot restore the position, and Pc=kL is the critical load.
  3. When P > Pc, the bar collapses.

Consider an imperfect system: kL(sinΘ-sinΘ0)(LcosΘ)

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