Recent content by Jokerhelper

To be fair, I'm pretty sure in most places in Europe students take an extra year in high school, while their university degrees are usually 3 years long (13 years of primary and secondary school + 3 years of university, compared to 12 years + 4 years of university in North America). So in a way...

I don't understand the need for comments like these. If the OP is getting more bang for his or her buck by watching video lectures rather than attending in person, what's the big deal? Would it bother you if some of your students found ways to be successful other than attending your lectures?

I don't much about research jobs, but businesses are definitely hiring lots of engineers here in Alberta. One thing I can say is while I was applying for summer jobs in the oil and gas industry I came across plenty of postings requiring masters and PhD. With your petrochemical production...

I would laugh if a school today ever used this motivation to ban solution manuals, especially when considering some of the outrageous prices for the mandatory textbooks (even when many of these end up being useless) or the deals they reach with publishing companies that pretty much force us to...

If you're referring to electives outside of engineering, then I'm pretty sure you'll have a few ones. All engineering programs in Canada require a certain set and type of "complimentary studies" (CS) options outside of engineering. They're typically not completely free electives though, and...

:smile: I always get those terms mixed up

Some errors I've noticed: - To call the iostream library, you should use <iostream> - Many of the lines are missing a colon at the end and some have a comma instead - You've messed up some of the operators. Remember, it's count << and cin >> - Some of the lines are meaningless, like "sp...

Another way to look at this is to see that those equations can be derived from the coefficient of restitution formula: e = \frac{v^{'}_{2} - v^{'}_{1}}{v_{1} - v_{2}} Where e = 1 in an elastic collision, and e = 0 in a perfectly inelastic collision. All other inelastic collisions range in between.

You should probably show how you solved for time, because you clearly made an error at some point.

I'm pretty sure the other poster meant semester courses, not actual entire semesters. But the requirements certainly vary from school to school. In fact, my school's program doesn't require any subjects, though it recommends helpful subjects without taking them into consideration for...

Eh, I'm pretty sure in most cases calculus teachers are math teachers that just happen to teach a calculus class. At least that's how it was for my school. I guess a problem would be that schools might have to hire more math teachers, which would be unfeasible for many school districts that...

Tunnel vision? For most programs in college or university, math is certainly not a requirement, let alone calculus. Plus, not everyone goes to college after high school. I don't understand why you'd want to force all high school students to take an additional math class when only a tiny percent...

I have to say, that's one of the most pointless tests I've ever seen IMO. Since you can't see it, smashbrohamme, this is one of the questions: "A cube of sides 40mm is resting on HP with its base on HP such that one of its vertical faces is inclined at 30 degrees to the VP. It is cut by a...

The Cool Toys Degree! In all seriousness though, if you're interested in engineering my advice would be to find out what different programs you're more inclined to by finding out what topics are covered, what you might learn, and what are the different things people with that degree end up...

You would have to have some terrible luck (or more likely you did something wrong) if you ever happen to encounter an system of 6 equations with 6 unknowns in each equation. What will usually happen when you're dealing with a 3D system is that you'll have up to 6 equations to play around with...