/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4060645
I have a hard time grasping how something as old as math can be outdated. At the same time, I'm still weirded out by how the first editions of much of my text in EE fundamentals were originally written many decades ago.

Check your syllabus for the course textbook then hit up your campus library for it and other related texts.

Yep, photographic film has great resolution and films then were also shot and projected widescreen but pan and scanned for TV.

That's why they had intros that went "The following motion picture has been resized to fit your TV screen" and such.

It's the same as how I believe in a god that had to write the natural laws that govern the universe.

I mean, you can't just beat that natural efficiency. (See Animal Planet's The Most Extreme)

sage for religion

I reencoded the videos for my PSP and watch them on the train on my way to class. Saved my ass for calculus, matrices, and laplace transforms.

It won't help for special approaches though like it doesn't cover using laplace transforms for electrical circuits. There's also nothing on Fourier and Z Transforms.

You know you're fucked when Khan Academy can't help you and Wikipedia looks like gibberish.

>>2971355
This. You spend more time crunching numbers and analyzing than actually building things. If you're into it, I say study it then build things as a hobby.

My institute has great labs though that can give a lot of good hands on experience that will be useful when applying for a job right out of college so look into those at your univ.

What if yo go backwards?

There are still tasks that require a human to accomplish but a highly educated person can't waste time with. Hence, everyone else.

As long as the upper half continues running things and the lower half continues supporting.

also

>EE
>sports
>life outside of EE
>doin' it wrong

Turn off all sources, reduce network and get the resistance between a and b and there's your Thevenin and Norton resistance.

Electricity that isn't used is still produced in that 1 hour period. The energy has to go somewhere and it sure as hell isn't going back to the planet from the grid. That's right, I increased my consumption for 1 hour and it actually benefit the planet.

>>2763207
then it would be a falsehood, not an opinion.

Electrical Engineering.. maan, I just wanted to build things, not dick around with calculus and transforms and other abstract concepts. Someone please tell me it gets better.

>major in electrical engineering
>have friends in arts, humanities and social sciences because they're cool people
>no sex though cause I'm socially inept and that's only mildly related to my major

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_system

In my first semester of EE, our math was just ALL of high school math crammed down into one subject. Then we moved on to stuff like calculus, linear/matrix algebra and differential equations (laplace, fourier, etc).

If you can think logically and are diligent in studying, you'll make it. It's all about memorizing theorems, properties, and operations which you should be able to grasp with enough practice.

>>2625543
>China will never be as great as the West. Never.
btw, for now this is unsourced so don't believe me just yet but I remember reading that around the time the East was having its Golden Age with its palaces and silk, the west was still living in huts and wearing bearskins.

>>2625543
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_inventions

Tie it to a rope, make it spin, measure the tension. Do the math.

Is it possible to like, grab a bunch of neutrons and make an object that can't hold a charge, can't conduct electricity at all, can't be affected by magnetism, etc.

>>2572683
|x| means absolute value of x which is the distance of x from the origin or 0. Essentially, just make whatever's in it positive.

The Soviets aren't trying to do it anymore.

Would you look at that. I'm neutral as fuck. The test is flawed though because I'm not caught between personality types. I exhibit strong traits of both sides.

INTP in elementary (overachiever), INTJ in high school (got lazy cause I thought I was smart), ENTP when I entered college (became more social I guess), ISTJ now.

tldr: This shit is useless and I bet was written by INT* to circlejerk themselves.