Recent content by Kyle Gonterwitz

One physical application of the laplace transform that helps to explain the phsical significance is in automatic flight control systems in aerospace applications. In an oversimplified nutshell... Flight control surface responses can be measured and plotted in Bode Diagrams. Laplace transforms...

Swingsets, hammocks and metronomes are good for pendulum motion examples for kids between to describe relationships periods, length and moment. Musical instruments vary the musical pitch buy opening and closing holes or changing the length of airflow or the length of a string vibration...

I have a fun example I remember from high school physics involving inertial physics associated with ripping off the desired amount of toilet paper from the roll. First you slowly pull the tissue with hopefully less force than will break the perforated sheets and enough force to get the roll...

Flight level 600 is at 60,000 ft which is the upper boundary of controlled airspace, that would be the practical, lowest possible altitude. Search for the relationship between altitude and atmospheric pressure to find that relationship, then go as high as needed to optimize a design based on...

Is this a trick question? I think the lowest possible altitude of a satellite orbiting the Earth would be just above sea level. The satellite would have to achieve escape velocity, have thrust available to overcome drag, and have to be able to navigate around landmasses, but technically that...

Given the fact you work for a "dirt burning" company :wink: that potentially uses ArcGIS I'd start right there with python and the arcpy libs. With the ArcGIS support and examples available for python scripting, geospatial data analysis and visualization, in my opinion your path to developing...

+1 for eclipse, there used to be a TOAD plugin that was really good for oracle database development, but I have not seen that plugin lately, I think it reached it's EOL. Still, Eclipse has some SQL developer tools and if you are learning Java then it's also good for that purpose too.

Jupyter! also known as Iron Python notebooks.

Hi Everyone, I'm the latest new guy for now. I like and am interested in: Transportation Engineering and Temporal Linear Referencing and Geo-spatial Information Python, AI and GIS/Spatial Databases Aerospace Engineering and all things aviation related Experimental Aircraft Association and...

Sparx Enterprise Architect is also a good tool for this purpose, its mostly comparable to ERwin. Different people have different preferences for tools that do things like this, my preference is for Sparx so that's mostly what I use. Waterfall vs Agile/Scrum I would think would depend size and...