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    Programs PHD in biomedical engineering? Or just MAsc

    'm right now in my 5th year of engineering science (electrical and computer) and I'm pretty much lined up a spot in grad school at my same school with a shorter than average completion time for it. The research is in cardiac anatomy and biomedical imaging. I've been doing some towards my ugrad...
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    Computer Engineer: Jobs, Branches & Careers

    Well I'm a 4th year student hehe. Not too far off from graduation and with some work experience under my belt in the form of a couple of coops. Sadly though, 4 years... way to be impossibly optimistic. It's usually a 5 year program following curriculum. The thing with engineering is that its...
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    What Experiments Can We Do with Complex Numbers and AC Power?

    How much calculus do you know? (the more the merrier!) Looking at those pictures you should have enough data for the low pass and high pass filters. But, what worries me is what you chose for the time constants. What you need to do is plot the voltage across the resistor vs. the voltage of the...
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    Finding x(t) with Given Coefficients

    Meh. Nm. i read ahead and used the Fourier transform pairs table. Also noting that j^k gives exp(j*k*Pi/2) which is just a phase shift to the square wave.
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    Finding x(t) with Given Coefficients

    Okay. so i have a problem that I'm finding tricky to work backwards from. I'm given the coefficients Period 4 and x(t) is continuous. a_{k} = 0 if k=0 a_{k} = j^k*sin(k*Pi/4)/(k*Pi) if k!=0 Supposed to find x(t). Now I've tried a few things but have come up with many different...
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    LaTeX Help with Putting Figures Side-by-Side in LaTeX

    try checking into various packages such as placeins. Figures are "floats" so you really have to force it to go somewhere using tables or whatever.
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    Learn Fortran for Mechanical Engineering: Beginner's Guide

    matlab is derived from fortran and much of the syntax is swappable. Matlab is interpreted.. Perhaps mech eng's only learn 2 languages or so but us electrical engineers learn many more. Perhaps its because we design integrated circuits and electronics though. Still i hate it when people...
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    MATLAB Help me Solve MATLAB Projectile Problem & Write an m-file

    If you haven't already figured it out, there's nothing much to an .m file. Since i do not warez matlab, I'm using vim (a text editor) and octave. Basically what goes in a .m file is something like this function returnValue = f(x) returnValue = 2*x^2 + 3*x+2 end format long %for...
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    MATLAB Restoring Matlab File After Unwanted Overwriting

    heh, last night (long night, ended at 3:30am, got to love engineering) at the end of everything i was using octave (GNU/Matlab :P) and i was piping the results out to a text file, but tired me hit tab (in bash) and piped over my MATLAB file :(
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    Managing a Huge Array on a Unix/Linux System

    rgrig is right. Secondly, with disk accesses it will be even slower.
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    AMD vs Intel: Choose the Better CPU for Optimal Performance

    Well, actually tons has changed but i agree its still a ****ty ISA (8086 was bad when it was new). The AMD64 is quite nicely cleaned up by adding a few more GPR's etc in 64-bit mode. They didn't go as far as i'd like but they took advantage of lack of backward compatibility.
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    What Determines Particle Amplitude? Examining Photons and Interference

    What, if anything, determines the amplitude of a sub-atomic particle. A specific question is do all photons have the same amplitude? I would assume that at least photons of same color do, since i can observe the destructive interference.
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    Maple How Do You Find Max and Min Values in Maple?

    Yeh, but there's still saddle points to deal with. (2nd derivate check) Look it up in a good calculus textbook and the write out the procedure in maple...
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    Way to systematically solve gate problems?

    What type of problem. Are you just trying to read ahead in preperation for school?
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    Language suggestions for writing an app

    gcc-'s goal is portability not speedyness so there are issues in the architecture that make it difficult for optimization. Intel's compiler is just about one of the best you can get, especially for AMD cpu's. Java has a run-time profiller and can optimize on the fly. That was one of the...
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