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World's Largest Buffalo

World's Largest Buffalo is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand World's Largest Buffalo rather than just read about it. In short: World's Largest Buffalo is a sculpture of an American bison located in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States, at the Frontier Village. It is visible from Interstate 94, overlooking the city from above the James River valley.

Key takeaways

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Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect World's Largest Buffalo to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of World's Largest Buffalo from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

World's Largest Buffalo is a sculpture of an American bison located in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States, at the Frontier Village. It is visible from Interstate 94, overlooking the city from above the James River valley. The statue is a significant tourist draw for Jamestown and the source of its nickname, The Buffalo City.

Description The sculpture is 26 feet (7.9 m) tall and 46 feet (14 m) long and weighs 60 short tons (54 t). It was constructed with stucco and cement around a steel beam frame shaped with wire mesh. The sculpture is complete in many respects of detail. It is sculptured after a male bison in mid-stride and is anatomically correct.

History The sculpture was commissioned in 1959 by local businessman Harold Newman, designed by Elmer Petersen, Jamestown College Art Professor and sculptor, and constructed under Peterson's supervision by professional construction workers and community members. The final construction cost was approximately US$8,500 in 1969; a significant overrun from initial estimates closer to $4,600. The concrete slab that lies under the sculpture was added later and was not included in the initial cost. When originally constructed, the statue stood alone on a hill south of Jamestown. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the city began expanding the site with the collection of a small number of historic buildings moved there in an attempt to recreate the look of a small Midwestern town in the 1800s. Named Frontier Village, the project has grown over the years to encompass several acres (hectares) with a complex of buildings and other attractions, including the National Buffalo Museum. However, the Buffalo remains the featured attraction. In June 2007, the city of Jamestown received a grant of $16,500 from Hampton Hotels' Save-A-Landmark program to refurbish the buffalo. The money was used to repaint the buffalo to look more lifelike and to enlarge the horns. Original designer Elmer Petersen directly oversaw the renovation. On July 24, 2010, the World's Largest Buffalo was named "Dakota Thunder", after a contest that drew more than 3,500 entries.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with World's Largest Buffalo

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what World's Largest Buffalo claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to World's Largest Buffalo before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about World's Largest Buffalo ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of World's Largest Buffalo

In research: World's Largest Buffalo appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses World's Largest Buffalo in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: World's Largest Buffalo is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1959 establishments in North Dakota, 1959 sculptures, Animal sculptures in North Dakota, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for World's Largest Buffalo outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study World's Largest Buffalo in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what World's Largest Buffalo means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does World's Largest Buffalo matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study World's Largest Buffalo?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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