Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Vocab Terms and Definitions

Blog post 3 
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2. Titanium
Alloy
Densile Strength
Hardness
SEM(Scanning Electron Microscope)
Alpha Phase
Beta Phase 
3. Overall, to find sources was not much of a problem because I had already had some prior research when it comes to titanium alloys. I got some handy textbooks from my dad in OSU which have a lot of meaningful information in them. Overall, since the textbooks are complex, I am skimming and picking some of the most important information I can, because obviously I am not giving a PHD thesis or anything. I just have to give the reader a basic understanding of aerospace application. 

I have learned how to differentiate between a credible source and an uncredible one. I have also learned how to pick information that I need relatively rapidly through the process of skimming, so I save myself time and also make my information more concise and understandable. At this point, I think I have all the sources I need, and I don't need anymore. Overall, the only secondary questions that I am having trouble with are the ones that concern the history of Titanium, because although I have learned a lot by working with them, I never went to great lengths to find out information like "who is the person who discovered Titanium", or "what year was it discovered?". 

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