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The important thing is to learn the material - not to graduate "on-time." Once you get into your first job, no one is going to care how long you took to graduate college. And when you interview for your first job out of school, your potential employer is going to care more about what you know...

Wolram's original post was this: So, first, I don't see anything here where he is requesting low calorie recipes. Second, he is soliciting advice about good ideas for food that is healthy, nutritious, and tasty. I'm no doctor or nutritionist, and I advise everyone to do their own research...

Depends on a lot of factors: age, marital status, kids, finances, personal goals, career goals, etc. I'd say that if you are single, if you are motivated, if you enjoy math, and if you have the means to study engineering, you should do it.

That looks right to me. So, then you should be able to get the voltage across each of your capacitors and the charge on each capacitor.

What are you using for V? Be careful. Think about what a capacitor looks like after a long time, and think about what the circuit looks like after a long time.

I think redrawing helps to be able to discern which elements are in parallel. When current can go through multiple parallel paths, it will divide up in such a way that the voltage across each of the parallel paths remains constant - as can be verified by Ohm's Law, KCL, and KVL.

The acceleration of an electron in a real conductor is not constant. I think when subjected to an electric field, the speed of the electrons increases monotonically up to its "steady-state" drift velocity. If the applied field is not changing (DC), then after an initial transient time, the...

You can always use MATLAB and the appropriate MathWorks toolboxes. I have found that MATLAB applications engineers are always extremely helpful. If you are thinking of FPGAs, you can use VHDL or Verilog. I used VHDL in Altera's Quartus II environment. To do EMC / EMI evaluation of a...

So? You can conduct a thought experiment with this ideal, and then, based on Maxwell's equations, you can derive boundary conditions between an ideal conductor and free space.

As you have observed, we obviously disagree.

An ideal conductor has infinite conductivity.

Some people here are opining that you should just go ahead and have sex whenever you want. I would give the opposite counsel. There is something very special about purity - something very special about marriage. I counsel you to first deal with your various issues. Second, wait until...

##e^{-x}## is not periodic (unless x is imaginary, in which case you have a real periodic function and an imaginary periodic function). As Dr. Courtney said, check out angles of inscribed triangles within the unit circle. You keep going around and around. ##1## revolution for every ##2\pi##...

It looks like a capacitor, but I don't know what that semicircle is at the end of it.

Are you planning on going to graduate school? Would you ever have the opportunity to take the 4th course? Honestly, if possible, take all four courses. I didn't take DSP in college, and I wish I had, but I also don't know when I would have. My schedule was so full. Tough choices. All...