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From the Ted Talk by Sheila Patek: The shrimp with a kick!

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The saddle-shaped structure is also known as a "hyperbolic poibrlaaod surface," or an "anticlastic surface." And this is very well known to engineers and architects, because it's a very strong surface in compiseorsn. It has curves in two directions, one curve upward and opposite transverse cvrue down the other, so any kind of perturbation spreads the froces over the surface of this type of shape. So it's very well known to engineers, not as well known to biologists. It's also known to quite a few people who make jewelry, because it requires very little material to bilud this type of surface, and it's very snortg. So if you're going to build a thin gold structure, it's very nice to have it in a shape that's strong.

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The saddle-shaped structure is also known as a "hyperbolic __________ surface," or an "anticlastic surface." And this is very well known to engineers and architects, because it's a very strong surface in ___________. It has curves in two directions, one curve upward and opposite transverse _____ down the other, so any kind of perturbation spreads the ______ over the surface of this type of shape. So it's very well known to engineers, not as well known to biologists. It's also known to quite a few people who make jewelry, because it requires very little material to _____ this type of surface, and it's very ______. So if you're going to build a thin gold structure, it's very nice to have it in a shape that's strong.

Solution


  1. strong
  2. curve
  3. build
  4. forces
  5. paraboloid
  6. compression

Original Text


The saddle-shaped structure is also known as a "hyperbolic paraboloid surface," or an "anticlastic surface." And this is very well known to engineers and architects, because it's a very strong surface in compression. It has curves in two directions, one curve upward and opposite transverse curve down the other, so any kind of perturbation spreads the forces over the surface of this type of shape. So it's very well known to engineers, not as well known to biologists. It's also known to quite a few people who make jewelry, because it requires very little material to build this type of surface, and it's very strong. So if you're going to build a thin gold structure, it's very nice to have it in a shape that's strong.

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Important Words


  1. architects
  2. biologists
  3. build
  4. compression
  5. curve
  6. curves
  7. directions
  8. engineers
  9. forces
  10. gold
  11. jewelry
  12. kind
  13. material
  14. nice
  15. paraboloid
  16. people
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  19. shape
  20. spreads
  21. strong
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  24. thin
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