Recent content by rhimmelblau

Looking for a algorithm I could punch into my calculator or include in a piece of code.

Is there a formula to calculate what date it will be in a certain number of days? I've tried to work this out on my own but don't know what to do with those pesky leap years. Say you figured out that a comet you want to see will have its closets approach to Earth again in 50,000 days, and you...

So if I have a radius that I need to search and a distance each successive turn should be from the last, then I can use the arc length equation s=0.5*a[theta*sqrt(1+theta^2)+ln(theta+sqrt(1+theta^2))]. So I would plug in "a" equal to my distance/2*pi, Then theta would be how many turns I go...

Hi I'm working on a project where I need to develop a flight path to cover a circular area. I was thinking of having the plane follow an archenemies spiral. I found that the general equation in polar is r=a(theta)^1/n My question is if I have a specific distance I want each spiral to be from the...

Hi guys. I want to write fortran programs in eclipse. All I have done so far is install eclipse with Photran (which according to google should allow me to). What do I need to do now to be able to compile and run a sample code? I am trying to run this: program hello_world implicit none...

So I am an Aerospace engineering student and we are learning FORTRAN right now (you can all thank Boeing for that). I had gotten used to writing in Visual studio with the nice visual debugger and compiler. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a student version of the FORTRAN debugger for VS, so I...

I am a freshman in college currently and I am looking for a comprehensive textbook that could teach my how to design a hydraulic system to operate in a robot. I'm on a battle bot team and we came up with a really ingenious idea for a weapon, but the only way for it to deliver the kinds of forces...