Question

Imagine you are part of a group of engineers who need to test a scale model of a footbridge. It will be a $\frac{1}{20}$120 scale model of the bridge. The footbridge will cross over a busy road and allow people to cross the road safely. How could a relatively small design error of 2 centimeters in the model system cause a significant problem in construction of the bridge?

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Answer 1

The problem will be because:

The error in the construction of the bridge will be actually 40 cm.

Step-by-step explanation:When you, as an engineer, listen about a scale 1/20, it means that for each 1 cm in the model, it will be 20 cm in the real footbridge (20 times upper to the scale model), then how the error in the model is 2 cm, the real error is 40 cm, in this case, imagine that you didn't know that the bridge will have an error of 40 cm, which is approximately 1,31 ft, from a side of the bridge you begin with the correct measure, and the other side you use the measure with the error of the 40 cm, the result is that when you going to finish the bridge in the center, this won't match, making more expenses to correct that big error.