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What I'm looking for is references that could be handed to an electrical engineering EIT who hadn't worked professionally with audio equipment to help get them up to speed. Ideally, after working through the material, they'd feel confident at an entry level in any part of a project like, say...

My Google-fu has been failing me on this. I'm looking for a good variety of online resources and textbooks on the design of audio equipment. The level I'm looking for would be for upper-level undergraduate or intro graduate level electrical engineering. Topics must include how to best isolate...

Go to the library at a nearby university. Ask to talk to someone in the interlibrary loan department. They may be able to get you a scan or photocopy of the article, if they can find another library with it in their collections. It also depends on whether your local university library will do...

OP didn't mention energy source. That can be very relevant if electric heating is allowed. Some electric utility companies allow variable metering based on time of day or market prices on the spot. So, say you have a contract where one kilowatt-hour costs a cent or two less at night. Then it...

In order of cost and ease of finding, starting with free: Tom Judson has a nice PDF textbook on introductory abstract algebra called Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications: http://abstract.ups.edu/ There is a nice introductory Dover book by Pinter called A Book of Abstract Algebra...

I've noticed that a lot of papers these days don't include titles in their references. This grates on me, since it makes an article hard to use to survey what references are often used in a particular area. Often, what I want to do is retrieve a dozen articles in a field and compare their...

What work have you done on part (e)? Have you set up the problem on paper? Often, just writing down the problem statement, the given facts, and the relevant definitions gives you a good idea of where to start.

Reif should be good as a direct reference. If you want an undergraduate text as an additional companion, I recommend Schroeder. Sears and Salinger is okay also. Those are the only two I have good opinions of based on my experience. There may be many other good texts for intuition and review of...

Looking at the way it's used in that preprint, I think they may mean an optical diffuser.

Try the (free) OpenStax textbooks on algebra and precalculus. I've been using the OpenStax precalculus textbook as a source of problems and examples. It's pretty decent for the price. As mentioned above, make sure to do lots of exercises from any textbook you choose. If you run into trouble, or...

Book of Proof by Hammack is good. He offers a free PDF of it on his faculty website: https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/ There's a paperback version for about $22 if you prefer hardcopy. Most discrete mathematics textbooks can fill this role, also. The one I know best is older...

Strang is a good choice for your first introduction. Lax looks like a good choice from the table of contents. I'd also recommend referencing Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right while working through Lax or whatever other text you choose. Axler has an abridged PDF of that on his website. That...

The status and menu bar at the top of the page is rendering very wrong today in the Silk browser on my Kindle Fire HD 8. Here's a sanitized full screen screenshot:

There are two current branches of Thomas' calculus textbooks. Thomas and Finney is fine, has a flavor similar to a mix with something like Larson et. al. The other branch is the ones updated by Joel Hass. The early trancendentals versions of that branch feel a lot more like a proper updated...

Another option is to use a nonimaging solar heat collector (maybe something similar to the evacuated glass tube collectors on solar water heaters) to power an absorption refrigerator. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator Adding a fair bit of phase change thermal mass as...