SpaceX Applicants Are Asked To Solve This Question

>pounds are mass
No, imperial is retarded and the mass is in slugs, so whatever your pounds are divided by 32.2ft/s^2 i think

Honestly, the worst thing about imperial is going through the tables looking for tolerances

>being such a brainlet that units are actually a problem
Not gonna make it.

Prove that this is a SpaceX applicant question and not a homework thread

Are you retarded?

yes

literally any civil engineer can do this. Mechanicals too.

inb4 engineers are shit memes

Just eyeballing:
Case 1 critical failure at c and or d
Case 2 no issues safety factor .85
Case 3 non critical failure at e or f

>t physicist
Can anyone post results?

>using imperial on space rocket related stuff

GEEEZ, THANKFULLY THAT NEVER WENT WRONG

Really? Any physics undergrad can solve this in

>safety factor .85
>not a problem

>imperial units

>▶Copy/pasting homework threads from Reddit

You're retarded.

If you cant parse an engineering problem down so you can solve it by hand, you don't understand it.

Shit I've designed 40 storey buildings by hand in an afternoon while some other retarded fuckhead spent two days ''building le fe model".

Came to the same conclusions too....

Good luck finding a physics grad with any knowledge of steel grades, strengths or an understanding of welds...

>inches
>lbs

>Any physics undergrad can solve this in

>0.85

Seems like a rather difficult exam question on a mechanical design course. Although we weren't allowed to use software for that exam.

>>using imperial on space rocket related stuff
>GEEEZ, THANKFULLY THAT NEVER WENT WRONG
Using Standard put men on the moon. It's mixing in Metric that fucked things up.

Remember: Standard is descended from the standardized English system, which the French were deliberately being incompatible with when they designed the first version of Metric out of jealousy for English industrial efficiency.

Metric was anti-standardization from the start: they looked at the biggest established industrial base and chose to be incompatible with it. You can tell as well that Metric was thrown together in a rush, full of clever-sounding ideas that don't work so well in practice, while Standard developed out of sober consideration and minimal interference with established units which had emerged naturally as convenient for everyday living.

It's Metric that will be abandoned in the end, neither scientific enough nor human enough to last the ages, while Standard marches on alongside new units more convenient for specialized scientific use, like light years and AMUs.

Am I getting the geometry right?

is this b8

The Apollo Program and Falcon 9 both used Standard units.

Suck it, Metric-bitches.

>Not being capable of using both comfortably
Don't worry, by the time your sophomore year is over you'll have a handle on them if your school's not shit.

I'm in my senior year and I still can't use imperial units properly. I've learnt several times but keep forgetting because I have no reason to use them except for the occasional question on an exam by an asshole professor.
The imperial system is fucking retarded and anyone that uses it should feel ashamed.

please tell me you're not a civil undergrad

>Wanting to be a SpaceX engineer
Lel

This.
>inverse.com/article/31478-spacex-settles-underpaid-workers-lawsuit-for-4-million

Yep. I work right next to them at KSC and all I hear are horror stories.

>case 1
fail at A

>case 2
fail at B

>case 3
fails everywhere.

this post literally makes me regret we didn't nuke the holy fuck out of you

Nope, mech engineering undergrad.

>Came to the same conclusions too....
gives me slightly more confidence in my non-linear FEMs

How is this hard?
If I was an US citizen then I would have a job at FaggotX, ez.

git gid fgt

stfu retard, my backwater shithole country does not even acknowledge the existence of space.

THE WORLD IS SO FUCKING SHIT, kys.

is imperial units a grad level course in burgerworld?

no u poorfag

Stop replying to me, cock sucker.

get that h1b or die poor

YOU STUPID FUCKING RETARD... YOU CAN'T GET A H1B TO WORK AT SPACEX BECAUSE YOU NEED TO GET SECURITY CLEARANCE

ALSO US DOESN'T RECOGNISE MY FUCKING DEGREE

FUCK YOU!

>Feel free to use any references or software
>Document your work as you would for a real-world analysis
So screencaps of Veeky Forumstards helping me solve it?

Nautical miles > Kilometers > Miles when it comes to measuring distance traveled and velocity.
Deal with it.

So you dont even have a real degree then
M8 just end yourself

git gud mexicunt

Guesses with some order of magnitude calculations:
>1. failure at A, guessing non-catastrophic
>2. not sure if failure, but would be at B
>3. guessing it buckles

This is what americans actually believe

all you did was provide the likely mode of failure, which is literally like 0.01% of the difficulty of the problem
literally you:
>1: probably fails
>2: no idea
>3: no idea

and france

How is this done? I did a chemical engineering degree and can't remember shit so I can't do it

babby-tier beam theory should do the trick

spaceX doesn't use metric

what that a bungled question, a statement or what?

It's taught in elementary.
I fail to understand how it can be hard for people to understand.

>imperial units
>sophomore
>being a burger