Recent content by Guy Madison

I honestly think the reason is cost and availability, I can buy a bottle of argon about 3 miles away from my house... there are other gases used for glass panes that are closer together like krypton but that's kind of expensive. There are better solutions but what is good enough? Think about...

Well there is angular momentum, the ball when it hits a surface with friction will convert angular momentum into deformation so that would account for an additional boost.

Argon is probably used because it's so commonly available for welding operations and used for numerous other applications, why use anything else?

Did you check out problem books in mathematics by springer? There's a load of titles available.

Smirk :) My grandfather made all his children take a full course of calc / physics, he was paying the bill and expected something in return. No business majors in the family though... just doctors / engineers / finance majors.

Isn't that great :) people tell me you're so smart because your dad was so smart... I respond back.. listen.. my mother took full calc / physics set for nursing in a time when women didn't become doctors. I expect both of my daughters to take a full calc / physics tour of duty if I am paying the...

Looking at the table of contents it's actually not too bad, about 200 pages of classical mechanics and the rest on various modern subjects. Any physics text should not be stuck in the time of Newton, unless you are going to be a mechanical engineer. The continued focus on subjects like these are...

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I found that college physics courses spend way too much time on classical mechanics and not enough on applicable technologies like electronics (not charges), general relativity or quantum mechanics which the really cool side of physics. It's like learning to play the piano, the longer you stay...

It's useful, but almost zero people in IC design will design at the gate level. If you are an IC designer you work with verilog / VHDL or whatever and that's compiled down to a gate library. Gate libraries are very specialized and bound to the process the IC will be manufactured on. If you want...

As I tell my children, google search for the top 10 paying degrees. http://www.affordable-online-colleges.net/top-10-valuable-engineering-degrees-employers/ Two of my classmates in EE were physics majors, they found it was tough to get a job without getting a Phd so they took the EE route...

I think EECS is more like computer engineering, not like a full blown analog EE degree. I have worked with a few of them, they all glaze over when you start describing a switching power supply and waveguides. For more of a challenge go analog EE and a CS degree and toss some digital stuff in...

Yeah.. I have no idea why a Civil Engineer would be learning Cauchy Goursat theorem and complex integrations, I didn't know Civil Engineers took a full calc series. My sister-in-law is a CE and she gets that deer-in-headlights look when I talk about math so I keep it simple.

Math is about learning how to think, that's the biggest hurdle for most people.

Maybe you missed my point, but that's exactly what I am saying. You put a coal plant away from cities. I am not anti-coal or all that, my dad made a lot of money building specialized stainless steel components for coal fired plants in the midwest. If we are looking for polluters the media...