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Right. I have an algorithm to draw in a 2-dimensional case, but need to find where points intersected by an arbitrary plane in 3 space would lie in 2 space. So the steps are: 1. Define plane. 2. Find points that lie on plane. 3. Come up with transforms that make x, y, z dependent only on...

I know the plane that intersects the three points, or rather it's defined by the 3 points. What I want to do is construct and color a plane out of polygons, which is easy to do for a 2-dimensional case but not an arbitrarily rotated 3d case. I need coordinate transforms from the generalized 3d...

Homework Statement This is actually a programming assignment, however it's very math involved. Given a set of points in R3 (x,y,z coordinates plus a weighted value) that are known to be coplanar, I need to draw an appropriately rotated, scaled, and colored plane intersecting the data. We...

The 10 hours a week of homework wasn't so bad, but it was a bit surprising for a 2 credit course. The course material was always very crammed together and the professor's teaching of it wasn't much more than "here's some formulas, now memorize them" without even derivations or conceptual reasons...

I'd say it takes a lot of courage and confidence in ones own mathematical ability to throw out contemporary thinking and replace it with something of your own conception. The math may seem simple now, but I don't think performing calculations has ever been considered particularly hard, it's...

It's not many more (like 1 or 2 classes more) and I'm not sure at what level each deals with the material, but my school's EE department is primarily focused with VLSI, power supplies/sources, conservative design, and carbon nanotubes. I can't say how that compares to other schools, but I...

Are you kidding me? Those classes Maxwell listed are freshman through junior level courses at my school! Aren't, at least data structures and algorithms, pretty close to the basics of comp sci? Then again, I have a friend who's going to Princeton, and the curriculum he has to follow is much...

Heh, sorry about the format I wrote the original post in, the 'proper' way to write a technical report was getting drilled into our heads at the time so I found it somewhat humorous to extend the format to my post. Anyhow, I've since switched to a dual major in comp sci and physics. I'm already...

Thank you for the reply. So a physicist and an electrical engineer can still be involved in the same fields? I'm more interested in the math type of work anyway, but I wasn't sure how much demand there was for people who stick mostly to number crunching.

Introduction I'm currently a sophomore electrical engineer in college, and I'm trying to decide if I should stick with the major or switch to physics. More importantly, I'm concerned with what the decision would mean for my long term future. Executive Summary Right now, I'm not too far into...