1. A truss is a rigid structure composed of straight members connected at joints that is statically determinate. 2. Trusses can be perfect, deficient, or redundant depending on the number of members compared to the number of joints. Perfect trusses have just enough members, deficient trusses have too few, and redundant trusses have excess members. 3. The document discusses the definition of a truss, different types of trusses, assumptions made in truss analysis, analysis methods including the method of joints and method of sections, and includes examples of solving for member forces using these methods.