General introduction to the TEACHWARE programs.

These programs were developed to illustrate several important concepts in
the area of mechanics of materials.  All of these programs were designed 
to be user-friendly yet versatile enough to be of use to practicing engineers.

UNITS
	There are no inherent units in any of the TEACHWARE programs.  The user
must supply values in consistent sets of units.  That is, if a length is input
in meters, then all of the lengths for a particular problem must be entered in 
meters in order for the calculated values to have meaning.

VALUES
	The values to be input, and those output, can have engineering suffixes
attached.  That is, instead of entering "10000000" for the Young's modulus
of aluminum in English units, one can simply enter "10M" or even "10000k" 
instead.  All of the common engineering suffixes from "T" (10^12) to "p" (10^-12)
are supported.  To enter æ (10^-6), press <ALT>+230 on the numberpad portion 
of the keyboard.
		       
COPYING TO DISKETTES
	These programs are standard DOS programs and can be run on any DOS computer
with at least 640k of base memory and VGA graphics.  You are welcome to copy these 
programs for your own use.  You will need a diskette with at least 475k of free
space for all of the programs in this directory.  The programs can be run directly
from the diskette.  If you copy the programs to a hard drive, be sure to include
the file "EGAVGA.BGI" in the same directory as the program file to be run.

PROBLEMS
	Please report all problems, suggestions and comments regarding these 
programs to Professor M. A. Latcha, 109 DHE, 370-2203.