Topic 9.5
Learning Objective: I will understand traversable networks.
Key Vocabulary-
network: a diagram consisting of arcs (branches) connecting points or nodes (junctions). A network may represent a real-world situation, such as a road system or electronic circuit. Sometimes the nodes are called vertices.
traverse the network: the process of tracing each path of a network without going back over any path a second time.
Look at the bus route below. This is an example of a network. Engineers and designers work together to form the best and most economic way for a bus to travel.
Definition of a Traversable Network
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A “Traversable Network” is one where we can find a route through the
network, along the edges, that uses all of the edges only once.
A network is said to be traversable when it is possible to start at a
“Vertex” (or “Node”), and trace out the whole network without having to
retrace over any of the connector “Edges”.
The following is a Traversable Network, because we can easily get
around the Network traveling along each Edge (or connector) only once.
Now watch the video about traversable networks:
Are these shapes traversable? Remember if you can traverse the network, you will go across each path without going back over any path a second time.
Here is our flipchart from class about networks:
Topic 9.5