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You might like this book: (Make Electronics: Learning by Discovery) https://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Charles-Platt/dp/0596153740/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382849585&sr=1-1&keywords=make+electronics

Generally with ICE the larger the displacement the lower the rpm at which it makes max torque. If you want more torque without having to rev the engine just get a bigger engine. Here's a 14 cylinder diesel that makes over five million foot pounds of torque at only 102 rpm...

Something like this? https://www.amazon.com/MC2-Simple-Physics-Balloons-BallsGo/dp/1606521675/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377821100&sr=1-3&keywords=e+mc2

It is unlikely he would be allowed to take the FE exam without an accredited engineering degree or any experience in the field.

For reference I use GIECK Engineering Formulas https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Formulas-Kurt-Gieck/dp/0071457747/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375038772&sr=1-1&keywords=gieck+engineering+formulas . It's a hardcover book but very small (4.5 X 6.0 inches) and light so it doesn't bother me to...

Thank you very much Hypersphere. You have made me aware of my need to study the concept of multiplicity and multiple roots.

I am new to Mathematica and I'm not sure if I'm using it properly but sometimes the output doesn't make sense to me. I Hope someone can help me understand or correct my usage. When solving trig equations Mathematica's Solve[] function gives the correct list of solutions but some of the...

Larson's Calculus text includes a preliminary chapter to introduce the student to data/function modeling and many subsequent chapters include a few of these modeling problems. Usually the problem will provide a brief set of data (x,y coordinate values) and then ask the student to use technology...

Everything looks cleaner, crisper, more inviting. Posts seem easier to read, quotes stand out more. Overall it looks a lot better. Great Job guys!

You might check out the following books from the O'Reilly Head First series: https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362814681&sr=1-1&keywords=Head+First+Java...

I don't think that's childish at all.

There are a couple of websites that attempt to provide popularity rankings for programming languages: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language Both indexes agree that (currently)...