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Milty's Mag Page Two ------------------------------------------------ Me Dept. Past and beyond me the world flows. For a year I am withdrawn from events while, like a battery being charged, or cattle being fattened, my mind is unceasingly engineering. Nine months have gone: three school terms. And now, January, I have a free week in which to pant for breath, lick my wounds, and hitch up my pants for the final three months. In April will come the end and the beginning. The year of learning will be over, and we will be sent out to make our way in the amy again. For me that junction point has much more significance than the completion of a courseof training. For me, that commencement will be the monumental, mind-shaking climax of eight years of effort. Open the windows and shout up and down the treet. Milty is getting a degree! Math Dept. One of the major fascinationsof electricity is the number of brands of mathematics which are used to solver circuit performance. Ordinary integration and differentiation you perform without batting an eye. Differential equations crop up constantly. You can solver them either as straight differential equations, or use the more mechanical and convenient methods of Heaviside's operational calculus, or the Fourier Transformation. In the simplest work in AC circuits you learn to handle sine waves asrotating vectors. This involves the algebra of complex numbers. (Numbers of the form A plus B, where j is the square root of minus 1.) Taylor series comesalong incidentally and when you hit non-sinusoidal waves, Fourier Series hits you. When you get up to long transmission lines and ultra-high frequency conductors, you learn what to do with tri onometric and hyperbolic functions of complex numbers. It is when you start solving networls by means of Kirchoff's Laws that the fun really begins. You get a buch of simultaneous equations -- one equation for each mesh. Two equations aren't bad. Three are slightly tough. Four and up are difficult, and when the coefficientsare complex numbers, as they are in the general case, it is simply impossible. If you have much patience youcan use determinants. If you have a marvel of an instructor like Bill Huggins, you learn Tensor Analysis. To the uninitiated, a page full of tensore analysis as worked by an electrician looks like a dismembered crossword puzzle. A simple multiplication looks like this:
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Milty's Mag Page Two ------------------------------------------------ Me Dept. Past and beyond me the world flows. For a year I am withdrawn from events while, like a battery being charged, or cattle being fattened, my mind is unceasingly engineering. Nine months have gone: three school terms. And now, January, I have a free week in which to pant for breath, lick my wounds, and hitch up my pants for the final three months. In April will come the end and the beginning. The year of learning will be over, and we will be sent out to make our way in the amy again. For me that junction point has much more significance than the completion of a courseof training. For me, that commencement will be the monumental, mind-shaking climax of eight years of effort. Open the windows and shout up and down the treet. Milty is getting a degree! Math Dept. One of the major fascinationsof electricity is the number of brands of mathematics which are used to solver circuit performance. Ordinary integration and differentiation you perform without batting an eye. Differential equations crop up constantly. You can solver them either as straight differential equations, or use the more mechanical and convenient methods of Heaviside's operational calculus, or the Fourier Transformation. In the simplest work in AC circuits you learn to handle sine waves asrotating vectors. This involves the algebra of complex numbers. (Numbers of the form A plus B, where j is the square root of minus 1.) Taylor series comesalong incidentally and when you hit non-sinusoidal waves, Fourier Series hits you. When you get up to long transmission lines and ultra-high frequency conductors, you learn what to do with tri onometric and hyperbolic functions of complex numbers. It is when you start solving networls by means of Kirchoff's Laws that the fun really begins. You get a buch of simultaneous equations -- one equation for each mesh. Two equations aren't bad. Three are slightly tough. Four and up are difficult, and when the coefficientsare complex numbers, as they are in the general case, it is simply impossible. If you have much patience youcan use determinants. If you have a marvel of an instructor like Bill Huggins, you learn Tensor Analysis. To the uninitiated, a page full of tensore analysis as worked by an electrician looks like a dismembered crossword puzzle. A simple multiplication looks like this:
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