Recent content by Mr.Bigg

Ok so if I follow what you are saying, in ship two I observe the chord dispensing at .99447c, but I also observe many times the number of dots pass by than I would expect to at rest or in low speed. IE at .1c I would observed 1 dot (not correct with your numbers but I don't feel like doing...

The spindle wasn't really my concern. I was just trying to describe a way to freely release chord that would instantaneously be at the relative velocity of the two ships. I was trying to reconcile the fact that after the two ships come to a complete stop and one got walked the chord you would...

Right, the relative velocity is that on ship 2 (the one with the spindle) yes? But... if I have dispensed chord at a rate of .99447c, then my spindle has released .99447c*x length of chord yes? (x being the the time measured on the ship). Maybe I am measuring the weight of my spindle as it...

I have two spacecraft originating from the same point each at velocity .9c in opposite directions. One spacecraft has a chord attached to it rigidly. The other has a spindle attached that can freely unwind the chord with no friction. We can measure the speed of the chord unwinding on this...

Thanks, that makes sense. I guess I get caught up thinking, one can leave Earth and get to the planet (for the sake of argument with zero relative speed to the earth) 1000 years later and it would be 1000 years later for both planets. But that distinction doesn't really hold up when you have to...

So I was pondering long distance space travel. As I understand it, if you can accelerate a vessel, say over the course of a year, to near light speeds, you can cover very very long distances in a very short period of time(as measured on your on space ship) due to the effects of relativity...

How long should a statement of purpose be? I had an idea of what the optimal length would be, but I realize now it may be a bit long. The application for UT says it should be 2 pages or less. The online form let's you input exactly 2 full pages single spaced size 12 font. I wrote up my...

I'm applying for graduate schools (3 of them) and obviously I need to send my undergrad transcripts. But they do say all post secondary education. I took dual credit classes in High School that I got Longview community college credit and UMKC credit for. Do I need to list this these colleges in...

Thats a good warning, I'll be expected to graduate as fast as possible and maintain grades. I like research personally, but I don't think my employer will want to pay for me to do any, especially since they won't be sending me with a project. I may have to exclude any Universities that demand a...

Oddly enough, I think my manager may have listed a technical need in mems without having a real need, we work with miniature gears and systems, not really on micro or nano scale. So the closest thing would be micro-mechanics, not heat transfer or fluids or anything. I had heard about rice, nano...

guess the topic is a bit too specialized

Hey, my company may be sending me to get a masters in mechanical engineering, particularly for small electromechanical engineering. It's not quite MEMS, but I think MEMS best applies and that was specifically what my manager is asking for. So, what grad schools have good MEMS programs...