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I think this is an excellent educational resource for younger students, and I'm trying to find out more about high quality versions of these videos that may still be in use anywhere. https://animatedscience.co.uk/eureka-physics-videos-2 I have 2 pressing questions. 1) Where to locate these...

I believe this method would be applicable in all situations, though perhaps unnecessary. If you post one of those sun gear and planet gear problems, I'll take a look and see if I can apply it.

Yes, it is. If you think about it, the rim of the carrier gear is traveling with a constant speed relative to its axis, and where it makes contact with the other surrounding gears, one velocity is v_c + \omega r , and the other is v_c - \omega r . It thereby follows that v_c would be the...

Thanks @dpatnd, I'm sensing a rather high amount of anxiety around this question for you, and I'd urge you to focus on the glass being half-full rather than half-empty. If you need to be an EE major to take the three classes you mentioned above, then by all means, the switch you've made is...

@dpatnd, I've been thinking some more about the things you've written on this thread, and I'm feeling more prescriptive today. I tend to agree with @vela's sentiment shared above, with a couple of caveats. First of all, there's no shame in changing majors, and I'm pretty sure it remains doable...

I completed my master's degree during a really bad job market, and lacking strong EE industry ties (I'd done one summer internship at HP Labs in the printing technologies division, with mixed reviews), I returned to my former industry in a much more production line-oriented capacity. Several...

I'm late to this thread, just joined PF the other day. @dpatnd, I'd say you've received a lot of great feedback here, even if some of it was worded a bit harshly. Having been raised in a culture that trades in shame as a parental negotiation currency, I recognize that, silly as it may be to...

I worked this out from first principles and came up with ωout = ##\frac{31}{57}##ωin. Your mistake was in the assumption that ωout = ωS2. The annular gear A2 is turning as a result of the movement from the first stage, and so C2 will have a movement that is determined from both S2 and A2...

Are you still seeking an answer for this? I see that it was posted some weeks ago.

Thanks @PeroK, much appreciated! I'm very happy to have found this community.

In a prior life, I was a top physics student working toward an undergraduate major in Physics. I completed my program but lost my sense of direction along the way, and I've been wandering with poor aim ever since. I launched my professional career in software technology related to computer...