Math Machines

Our non-profit organization has now been dissolved. COVID and other factors made it impractical for us to conduct workshops and carry on with other activities in the way we did before. Math Machines will continue, however, as a resource for educators and learners who are seeking (as we have) to build stronger links among the STEM fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
This page will continue to exist for a while longer as will our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/MathMachines
We are transitioning our website, https://www.mathmachines.net/, to a new format which will still provide access to our software, hardware designs and curriculum
Thank you for all you do to improve STEM education--and to help expand the integration to include Art and Medicine. STEM, STEAM and STEAMM live on!!!

In Anchorage horizontal accelerations can exceed 10 m/s^2. Learn more in our book "The Physics of Destructive Earthquakes" or our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC32QNLMCz69vTwKP8tWy19Q

Happy to announce that our book, The Physics of Destructive Earthquakes, is now officially published. At the moment, it is available in e-book form as part of a package of resources for universities, high schools and other institutions. Both print and Kindle versions will also be distributed on Amazon and elsewhere. We think the book includes lots of interesting and valuable physics stuff--for example how to find the horizontal acceleration which the building you are now in should have been designed to withstand. It also gives instructions for a bunch of hands-on STEM activities, such as how to design and create small-scale earthquakes that are effective in knocking things down. Many thanks to Bob, Richard and everyone else who was involved!! If you happen to buy a copy, all royalties go to Math Machines. http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-1-64327-078-4😀

The Physics of Destructive Earthquakes - Book - IOPscience This book is a concise introduction to the interactions between earthquakes and human-built structures (buildings, dams, bridges, power plants, pipelines and more). It focuses on the ways in which these interactions illustrate the application of basic physics principles and concepts, including inert...