Recent content by Oppenheimer

Anyone else studied with the OU? Thanks for advice "jspenuk". I had no idea that I could do the degree with the OU over 3 years. I assumed that the time scales in the route planner and the course guides were rules rather than guide lines. That is very interesting. If that is the case then it...

That is so true. I was never that good at physics at school, mainly because the I wasn't great at maths. But I was massively interested in it. There is a surprising point in any mathematicians career where you suddenly "get it". Then everything becomes easy. Physics is logical, and with enought...

You're right, I rather stupidly hadn't thought of it in that way. That makes sense in terms of fluid dynamics. The air will stack up and stay in the runner building pressure, but surely the pressure oscillating pressure wave will still have the same issue that I mentioned i.e. it will not...

Helmholtz resonator? Intake manifold design Hi guys, I'm doing a bit of research into engine intake manifolds. The information I've found so far looks staright forward, but it's given out by turners and cottage industry designers, rather than engineers or physicists, so it's basic. I...

Any ideas for home study second degree? Hi guys, I'm one of the many thousands of people that did completely the wrong degree and I'm now stuck wanting to do Mech Eng, which I should have done the first time around. I enrolled at Bristol Uni a couple of years ago, but had to drop out during...