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I guess it depends how big a dipping bird...jbriggs444 said:If you can blow up the sun, powering a dipping bird may not be high on your list of tasks remaining to be accomplished.
I guess it depends how big a dipping bird...jbriggs444 said:If you can blow up the sun, powering a dipping bird may not be high on your list of tasks remaining to be accomplished.
Vanadium 50 said:Its probably worth pointing out that when engineers cheat, people die.
When Ferdinand Sauerbruch [a famous surgeon] had Max Liebermann [a famous painter] portray him, he soon found sitting too long. But the artist reassured him: "There's no other way. If you make a mistake, the green lawn will cover it up the next day. But you can see my mistake hanging on the wall for a hundred years."berkeman said:From a thread in Academic Guidance where we were trying to help a struggling Engineering student who kept alluding to using cheating to get by...
Vanadium 50 said:Its probably worth pointing out that when engineers cheat, people die.
It's a very good point. I remember very distinctly the Kansas city walkway collapse, and it really came down to a poor engineering decision. The original design should have been fine.berkeman said:From a thread in Academic Guidance where we were trying to help a struggling Engineering student who kept alluding to using cheating to get by...
Mike S. said:Odd. Why is Google your friend if you're looking it up in Wikipedia?
PeroK said:I would describe your theory in tauro-scatological terms.
PeroK said:I would describe your theory in tauro-scatological terms.
I stole it from Tom Wolfe, in The Bonfire of the Vanities.gmax137 said:That one took me a few minutes.
It probably helps if you click the up-arrow in the quote to see the context of his reply.gmax137 said:That one took me a few minutes.
I tried that, and still sat and stared at it until the light bulb lit.berkeman said:It probably helps if you click the up-arrow in the quote to see the context of his reply.
You have one of those energy efficient bulbs that take a while to brighten?gmax137 said:I tried that, and still sat and stared at it until the light bulb lit.
Chicago Police: Who called the Police?DaveE said:Do I quit, or do what my idiot boss wants?
Dullard said:This might be a chance to teach the most useful general rule in all of science:
(Some of it) + (The rest of it) = (All of it)
Sadly, this is all too true.DennisN said:And no-one gets banned on PF. They get liberated from the tyranny of the forum rules.
epenguin said:"I confess that I get tired of HW problems that are trying to trick the students instead of focusing on the key analytical issues."
here's the link. A simple flattened-out redraw of the circuit is all that's required. Not a trick, but simple stereometric insight. Admittedly unrelated to key analytical issues.epenguin said:"I confess that I get tired of HW problems that are trying to trick the students instead of focusing on the key analytical issues."
DaveE in "Find the current through a complicated circuit"
(However I am not saying that that problem is an example of this artificiality.)
The "mindless book-work level analysis" you refer to is in the realm of physics HW assignments or circuit simulators. The real working analog EEs have their hands full with schematics of real world, complex circuits to deal with.ergospherical said:This statement is pretty misguided. The problem in that thread is typical of Olympiad-style papers (viz: circuits with a few little twists or exotic geometries), designed to make the student think instead of chugging through the mindless book-work level analysis.
DaveE said:It's a math puzzle, maybe a lesson in recognizing symmetry, that is all it's good for.