Recent content by Tunalover

Could have fooled me. When I took dynamics in college this was never described. Perhaps you could provide a source or two that shows the solution to this problem?

Consider a simple single degree-of-freedom (SDOF) spring-mass-dashpot dynamic system with spring rate k, mass m, and viscous damping coefficient c. Dimension x is the absolute displacement of the mass. The base input translation is y. A dot notation indicates differentiation with respect to...

Well, with a very tedious process, I did a paragraph-by-paragraph screen captures and pastes into on MS Word document. I was very careful to capture every line of text in the document. A pdf copy of my LaTex Primer is attached.

Thanks but if you print that out it hides lines of text at the top and bottom of each page.

Thanks guys. I think I'm good now.

Yes of course. The search results are so big and the destinations so diverse...I went to a few places but couldn't find anybody to call.

Yes thank you. I was aware of that. It is not in a good "printable format" though.

Until this forum I had never heard of LaTex for writing mathematical expressions. Can anyone help me: A. find out where to download these programs. B. find someone who would be willing to provide guidance on installing and using these programs C. find LaTex and MathJax primers I can print...

The following link provides proper guidance on when to use a capital letter for a metric unit: https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/writing-metric-units Prefixes are capitalized at 106 and larger. All smaller units are lower case. nano=n pico=p milli=m deci=d kilo=k Mega=M Giga=G Tera=T

Man made surfaces only absorb part of the incident irradiance. Some is reflected. How much all depends on the solar absorptance of the particular surface.

The greatest solar flux I've found is from the US Department of Defense MIL-STD-810G Method 505.3 for the Hot-Dry environment. This provides a diurnal cycle (solar irradiation and ambient air temp on the same graph) with a total solar irradiation that peaks at 1120W/m2. The components of this...

Thanks Greg! Hey would it be OK to appeal for volunteer EE bloggers and authors for Electronics Cooling Magazine on here? ECM is non-profit. Thanks, Bruce

I'm just an old fart mechanical design engineer with a career in the electronics business. I do "electronics packaging" which has little to do with bubble wrap, cardboard boxes and the Shipping & Receiving Department LOL! Being "between jobs" right now, I'm writing a paper on electronics heat...