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Combustion 1 Aerodynamics Turbomachinery Robotic Manipulators: Kin, Dyn and Control Mechanical Engineering 4th Year Project Cybernetics and Society Introduction to General Relativity Graduating semester; determined to cram as much as possible into my brain.

Not to mention deflection issues. You need the force balance setup to be fairly rigid so that the flow is not affected, or deflects out of alignment so that you may be measure lift as drag, and so on and so forth.

By gravity sensor do you mean it should be capable of measuring the acceleration due to gravity g where you have it? So it might read 9.804 m/s^2 at someplace in the world and 9.808 m/s^2 somewhere else.

I'd check out a text by Azuma, "The Biokinetics of Flying and Swimming". It includes an inviscid model for a flat plate undergoing pitching and heaving motion, typical in flapping flight. You can extend the model however you like for your application, as the mathematics are not too complex. I...

3rd year mechanical engineering, doing math minor though so taking an extra class. Mechanical Design 1 Mech Eng. Project Heat Transfer 1 Fluid Mechanics 2 Intro to Control Systems Microeconomics Applied Real Analysis

more mechanical engineering oriented, but it has the Rankine cycle. http://www.mhtlab.uwaterloo.ca/courses/me354/index.html

Homework Statement I am trying to figure out how to take the gradient of a vector function in polar and spherical co-ordinates. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I am aware of how the gradient of a vector function in cartesian co-ords looks, simply the second order...

A PhD in math and physics could do an engineers job... After they did a engineering degree. But it would really depend on the job. A PhD in math or physics would not be adequate to do any type of detailed mechanical or structural design from scratch. It would be sufficient for design testing...

I had Quantum 1 with Norbert at UW. Seemed to be a nice enough fellow, decent lecturer, good humoured, and gave a very mathematical introduction to Quantum. As you no doubt know, Waterloo is home to the institute for quantum computing, if you are into quantum computing or information then it...

Here is the confusion. Newton's 3rd law describes in the simplest case, two objects in contact with each other will exert equal and opposite forces on each other. For example, if the force F on your box is caused by your hand pushing the box to the right, then there will be an equal force from...

ah, thank you, very good. I have a transformation B: Rn -> R2 that works nicely, and the generalization follows quite easily.

Homework Statement http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/743/93134049.png Homework Equations Just the standard linear mapping properties and theorums. The Attempt at a Solution I have already solved part A by considering the transformation A: Rn -> R | A(x) = a.x where x is a...

My schedule for Mech Eng. Numerical Methods and PDE's Manufacturing Processes Fluid Mechanics 1 Thermodynamics 2 Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines Also going for a Applied Mathematics minor and am taking Continuum Mechanics Linear Algebra 2

Go see him in person? I do not think there are that many professors who give students summer positions and scholarships just to be nice. He must of liked you somehow, or needs the help really bad!

ITT tech is there to make money. I do not think they care as much about education as about attracting students to their programs. They only offer Engineering technology degrees I think, which I don't think qualifies you to call yourself an engineer, at least in Canada, not sure how it works in...