Download - 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy
![Page 1: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
1.1.1 Systems and Synergy
![Page 2: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
What do these, and the previous pictures, have in common?
![Page 3: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
They are all Systems
![Page 4: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
What is the meaning of the word system?
![Page 5: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
A system is something that:
Is made up of individual component parts
that work together to perform a particular function
A bicycle is an example of a system
![Page 6: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
But if the parts of the bicycle are piled up in the middle of the room, they cease to work together and thus stop being a system
![Page 7: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
So a system could be...?
![Page 8: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
All systems!! A building a flower an atom a political party a car your body furniture an electric circuit
![Page 9: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
One of the most fascinating characteristics of any and all structures is the characteristic called SYNERGY
SYNERGY
![Page 10: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
SYNERGY Synergy is: The only word in
any language that describes the behaviour of systems in this way:
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
![Page 11: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Another way to say this is : Even if you know all
the parts that make up a system you still cannot know or even predict how the whole system is going to behave or work.
Can you give an example of this??
![Page 12: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
The Human Body If you take all the stuff
that makes up a person, you would find that we are made up of:
Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon, Water, Calcium, Sodium, Magnesium, Sulfur, Iron and many other elements. The total cost of all of these things at the store is about……????
![Page 13: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
That’s right. About $ 1.00.
You could never be able to explain YOUR behaviour or all the things that YOU do, or all the different aspects of you, if you looked at just the stuff that makes you up. Never in a million years.
This is what we mean by SYNERGY.
$ 1.00
![Page 14: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Even if you looked at the next level up…the Cell
Even if you knew what all the cells in your body do, you still could not describe YOU.
Something very unique and new and unpredictable happens when the parts of a system work together.
![Page 15: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Bring different ideas Together
One of the best places to find ideas for structural systems is in NATURE.
Nature always uses the most economical, efficient and reliable structural systems
![Page 16: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Ecological Systems follow the laws of synergy as well.
It is the interrelationships between the parts that produces the behaviour of the whole.
Ecosystems Ecological Systems
![Page 17: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Two basic processes must occur in an ecosystem:
1. A cycling of chemical elements.2. Flow of energy.
TRANSFERS: normally flow through a system and involve a change in location.TRANSFORMATIONS: lead to an interaction within a system in the formation of a new end product, or involve a change of state.
![Page 18: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Components of a system:1.Inputs such as
energy or matter. Calories
Protein
Human
Body
![Page 19: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
2. Flows of matter or energy within the systems at certain rates.
Human
Metabolis
m
Calories
Protein
![Page 20: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
3.Outputs of certain forms of matter or energy that flow out of the system into sinks in the environment.
Calories
Protein
Human
Metabolis
m
WasteHeat
WasteMatter
![Page 21: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
4. Storage areas in which energy or matter can accumulate for various lengths of time before being released.
Calories
Protein
Human
Metabolis
m• fat • insulation • muscle fiber• hair, nails• enzymes
![Page 22: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Inputs and Outputs
![Page 23: 1.1.1 Systems and Synergy](https://reader034.vdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022051219/56816150550346895dd0d926/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Parsons show page 71 Labels!
Symbols for Drawings