Best general engineering books according to redditors
We found 6,203 Reddit comments discussing the best general engineering books. We ranked the 2,640 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 6,203 Reddit comments discussing the best general engineering books. We ranked the 2,640 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
One probably does not need to store vast quantities of data to get civilization restarted. For example, this book purports to be a good start: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
I've seen it suggested that Gray's Anatomy would provide a huge amount of medical knowledge. A handful of statements like "sickness is caused by living creatures too small to see," "everything is made from tiny indivisible parts too small to see individually," something about basic physics (at the F=ma level), something about the scientific method, something about fertilizer, and then evolution and genetics, etc might save people huge amounts of effort rediscovering technology, medicine, and so on. There was an interview circuit a few decades ago where they asked dozens of famous scientists what one (or three?) books they would want to survive nuclear war, and they all made quite a bit of sense.
You could probably kickstart the industrial revolution with one 10x10x10 room full of well-preserved textbooks.
Continued carbon emissions are putting humanity on an irreversible course for planetary devastation. If you want to get an idea of what the real world implications we may see from the 2, 3, 4+ ... degrees C of warming we are headed for in the coming decades barring radical action, check out Mark Lynas' book Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
This webpage summarizes some of the key points from Lynas' book:
A degree by degree explanation of what will happen when the earth warms
If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...
(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)
Medical:
Where there is no doctor
Where there is no dentist
Emergency War Surgery
The survival medicine handbook
Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine
Special Operations Medical Handbook
Food Production
Mini Farming
encyclopedia of country living
square foot gardening
Seed Saving
Storey’s Raising Rabbits
Meat Rabbits
Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step
Storey’s Chicken Book
Storey Dairy Goat
Storey Meat Goat
Storey Ducks
Storey’s Bees
Beekeepers Bible
bio-integrated farm
soil and water engineering
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Food Preservation and Cooking
Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing
Steve Rinella’s Small Game
Ball Home Preservation
Charcuterie
Root Cellaring
Art of Natural Cheesemaking
Mastering Artesian Cheese Making
American Farmstead Cheesemaking
Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse
Wild Fermentation
Art of Fermentation
Nose to Tail
Artisan Sourdough
Designing Great Beers
The Joy of Home Distilling
Foraging
Southeast Foraging
Boletes
Mushrooms of Carolinas
Mushrooms of Southeastern United States
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast
Tech
farm and workshop Welding
ultimate guide: plumbing
ultimate guide: wiring
ultimate guide: home repair
off grid solar
Woodworking
Timberframe Construction
Basic Lathework
How to Run A Lathe
Backyard Foundry
Sand Casting
Practical Casting
The Complete Metalsmith
Gears and Cutting Gears
Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment
Machinery’s Handbook
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
Electronics For Inventors
Basic Science
Chemistry
Organic Chem
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
Ham Radio
AARL Antenna Book
General Class Manual
Tech Class Manual
MISC
Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft
Contact!
Nuclear War Survival Skills
The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm
The Electrodynamics book by Griffiths is a standard textbook for a reason. He explains topics well and has good examples. This is the link to it.
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Children Electronics and Electricity books:
Newbie Electronics books:
Basic Circuit Theory books:
Analog Design books:
Digital Design books:
(download old edition)
Digital Signal Processing books:
Computer Design books:
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6800,
6809,
8080,
8085,
Z80,
68000,
x86
processors on Wikipedia.
8051,
ARM,
AVR,
PIC,
RISC-V
microcontrollers on Wikipedia.
Electronics Reference books:
Historical books:
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Current Electronics Magazines: (subscribe now)
Historical Electronics Magazines: (archives)
Historical Computer Magazines: (archives)
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Read all of his books.
The Demon Haunted World
Cosmos
Varieties of the Scientific Experience
Pale Blue Dot
The Dragons of Eden
Billions and Billions
His novel:
Contact
Yup, kinematics, basic orbital dynamics, and simple rocket equations are just algebra! Anybody interested should really check out one of the best Astro books out there: https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610
There are a few like this already but the one that sounds closest to what you're talking about is The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell. I'd start there for market research and ensure you're offering something in addition to this one.
The Art of Electronics.
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Years ago I got my 2 year degree in electronics. Afterwards I ran across this book and it filled in ALOT of blanks with more layman explanations.
That is advanced physics for you. If it were easy, there would be as many people in physics lectures as something like business administration. Most topics won't stick the first, second, or even third time around.
As for electromagnetics, I could recommend: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-4th-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562
Feel free to get an older addition.
Hey! I can relate exactly to where your'e coming from. I, some years ago, decided I wanted to get into building synths. I ended up getting a job at a pedal company and have spent more time learning to build and repair pedals than synths. I don't work there anymore, but it gave me a lot of perspective into the field as we also made euro-rack modules.
First up: I don't want to scare you off from this, but just want to give you a realistic perspective so that you go into this knowing what you are getting into. Making synths is hard and it's expensive. As far as electronic projects go, making a synthesizer is up there on the list. I've repaired powerplant turbine controller circuitboards that were simpler than some of the synths I've owned. This isn't to say, "don't do it!" but, expect to learn a lot of fundamental and intermediate stuff before you ever have something like a fully-featured synth that you built in your hands.
It's also expensive. A cheap synth prototype is going to cost a couple hundred bucks, easy, while a more fully-featured prototype could cost into the thousands to produce, and that's just to build one working prototype. If you want to make a run of products you're going to need money up front, and not a small amount. So, just be prepared for that inevitability.
One final note is that my perspective is broad (digital and analog) but is rooted in analog electronics because that's where I started. This isn't the only path you can take to get to where you want to go but honestly in my opinion, even if you're going to go mostly digital later, you need to understand analog.
If you have never messed with electronics much before I highly recommend the Make: Electronics book. I'm a hands-on person and this was the most effective book I found that let me study electronics fundamentals the way I wanted to; by making stuff! No matter which direction you go on (digital, analog, hybrid, DSP, SID, etc) you're going to want to know how to pick the right resistor, or how to pop an LED into a circuit, and this book will teach you that.
Solid follow-up books from there are Make: More Electronics, Practical Electronics for Inventors, How To Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic, and The Art of Electronics. All of these books are good books that touch on different concepts you will find useful, so I encourage you to look through them and decide for yourself which of these interests you.
Around this same time, I'd encourage you to start getting into kits. Honestly, before you build anything synth, I'm going to recommend you build some pedals. Effects pedals are fun and rewarding to build without being too hard. Start with a distortion circuit and work your way up from there. Once you can build a delay pedal without freaking out, move on to euro-rack kits, or other synth kits. While you're building these kits, don't just build them, play with the circuits! Try swapping components where you think you can, or adding features. One of my first kits was a distortion pedal with a single knob, but by the time I was done tweaking on it it had five knobs and two toggle switches!
Once you're feeling somewhat comfortable with electronics, then you can dive into the holy grail of analog synth design: Make: Analog Synthesizers this amazing book was written by the brilliant Ray Wilson who recently passed away. His life's goal was to bring the art of building analog synths into the hands of anyone who wanted to learn, and there is no better place to receive his great wisdom than this book. You should also check out his website Music From Outer Space along the way, but the book covers so much more than his website.
If you make through most or all of those resources you are going to be well-equipped to take on a career in synth-building! I'm personally still on that last step (trying to find the time to tackle Make: Analog Synthesizers) but hope within the next year or two to get that under my belt and start diving in deep myself. It's been a fun journey of learning and discovery and I wouldn't trade the skills I've gained in electronics for much.
Hope this helps, good luck!
The Art of Electronics 2nd Edition
If I recall correctly, in Pale Blue Dot, this question is answered in this way: It is very expensive and somewhat dangerous to send a person to the moon/space. You have to have a ton of life supporting equipment, and also have to have the equipment to return the person home. It is much safer and less costly to send robots out into space for scientific research, and leave them there - they can stay out there for years.
Climate scientist Michael Mann criticizes several of the claims in the article as overstated in this facebook post, though like most scientists he agrees with the general point that the consequences of climate change will be dire unless we take serious action (he has a book for non-scientists outlining the dangers and the politicization of the issue, The Madhouse Effect). And if anyone's interested in a book focused specifically on the best scientific predictions about the consequences of various amounts of warming, you could check out Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (see this post from one of the climate scientists on the realclimate.org blog, which gives it a positive review and says it accurately reflects the scientific literature on future scenarios).
I think our best chance of avoiding disaster lies in some combination of moving over to renewables and/or nuclear within the next few decades combined with massive production of carbon capture devices in the second half of the century, which could allow us to keep the warming to around 2 degrees or less. One important point is that without such massive deployment of carbon capture we don't really stand a chance of keeping it that low--check out the graphs here where the first two graphs show how fast carbon emissions would have to go to zero without any carbon capture if we want to keep warming to 1.5 degrees or less, along with a third graph showing how the decline can be more gradual if we have negative emissions later. The graphs are based on the "carbon quotas" for different amounts of warming on p. 64 of this IPCC report, and the quota for 2 degrees is not that much larger than 1.5 degrees (2900 gigatons vs. 2250 gigatons, only 29% larger) so the corresponding graphs for keeping it under 2 degrees wouldn't look too different.
The cause for hope here is that prototypes for carbon capture devices that remove CO2 much more efficiently than trees have already been built, see this article and this one, along with this interview with a physicist involved in the research where he makes the following point:
>My hope would be that we then would have a device that can take out a ton a day of carbon from the atmosphere. If you take out a ton a day, you would need 100 million air capture devices to take out all the C02 that we putting into the atmosphere today. And I would argue that it would be a lot less than that because we would also be capturing carbon at the flue stack, and not making the C02 in the first place by developing solar and wind technologies. ... There are about 1 billion cars out there. We are building 70 million cars and light trucks a year. So that kind of industrial production is quite possible. Eventually we should be able to produce an air capture device for roughly what it costs to manufacture a car.
I also think that another reason to be hopeful is that we may in the not-too-distant future achieve full automation of the production process for most mass-produced goods, leading to the possibility of self-replicating robot factories (what Eric Drexler calls clanking replicators), and I think the effect of this would tend to drive down the prices of all mass-produced goods--including things like carbon capture devices and solar panels--down to barely more than the cost of the raw materials and energy that went into them, so large-scale production of any good would be much cheaper. I talked more about this idea here.
Machinists handbook. It's a metal workers bible and a good reference for engineers. in fact, if you are in any way related to manufacturing (management, purchasing, planning) you should be familiar with at least some of the contents of this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-29th-Erik-Oberg/dp/083112900X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468480718&sr=1-3&keywords=machinist+handbook
also, kanabco and the virtual machine shop
http://www.kanabco.com/vms/library.html
He can get a used copy of the Fundamentals of Astrodynamics on Amazon for just $16.95
I have had good results with this book.
Practical Electronics for Inventors
If youre asking a question about a resistor and an LED, I bet you will have more complex questions about EE topics as you go forward. The book is good for engineering minds that havent studied EE in my experience. Plus the book is pretty cheap for the amount of knowledge inside.
You and OP need this book.
I recommend Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design.
The Mis-Education of Mathematics Teachers made a huge impression on me, in particular its emphasis on content knowledge and the fundamental principles of mathematics. More recently, the following comment by Ian Stewart has persuaded me to put more emphasis on the visual aspects of the subjects I teach:
> One of the saddest developments in school mathematics has been the downgrading of the visual for the formal. I'm not lamenting the loss of traditional Euclidean geometry, despite its virtues, because it too emphasised stilted formalities. But to replace our rich visual tradition by silly games with 2x2 matrices has always seemed to me to be the height of folly. It is therefore a special pleasure to see Tristan Needham's Visual Complex Analysis with its elegantly illustrated visual approach. Yes, he has 2x2 matrices―but his are interesting. (Ian Stewart, New Scientist, 11 October 1997) (source)
I'll commend the added effort on this one and give it another once-over.
>Before the DC-X, nobody believed rockets could land themselves with precision and reliability.
I will have to mark this one with a big fat [citation needed]. Although I can't quite speak for the folks who worked rockets in the 90's, in principle I see little reason why seasoned experts would be inclined to think of the task as impossible. Intriguing perhaps, difficult certainly, but the problems involved in that kind of landing functionality are well-defined in the propulsion and control theory literature from which a solution must be derived.
What the DC-X provides is an important proof of concept - I see little benefit in trying to analyze how useful that design is relative to any other given one. Although, as a point perhaps of historical interest: there was a "Delta Clipper" full-size vehicle in the plans as a follow-on to the DC-X, with some rather familiar promises of low-cost access to space and large savings through reusability. Some things are just posters, some things become prototypes, and some things end up as something more - that's the reality of aerospace designs if not engineering designs in general. I do have to say that based on the studies I've seen from the 90's, shelving the Delta Clipper concept was definitely the correct decision at that time.
>At this point, reuse was likely not saving over a couple million per launch, as pre-B5 boosters were not optimized for reuse.
I would like to draw attention to a pattern of thought I've coined "the refinement fallacy." That is, the general assumption that the next version will iterate away the relatively fundamental problems with this one. Although the next version could certainly support improvements, it's easy to assume that such improvements will lead to radically different performance even when there is little evidence to support that that is the case. Bottom line: improvements and refinements do not by default resolve fundamental problems.
For the next segment, I'd like to start by collecting a couple of questionable assertions:
1.
>Musk said that reuse was 50% cheaper, however, by the end of this, it would likely be more accurate that the final pre-B5 reuse only saved up to 30%, and that was the expectation from B5.
2.
>Block 5 is the final version of Falcon 9. It is reportedly built for 10 flights with minimal refurbishment and 100 flights over its lifetime, although there is speculation that B5 will be used through 200-300 launches IF Starlink becomes a thing.
3.
>All of these help improve rapid reusability and the amount of times a booster can be used. it is likely only now, when B5 is being mass-produced (in rocket terms) and reuse is down that reuse of the booster can create cost saving with reuse being worthwhile. This is also the point where that 50% savings over making a new one can be reached, which would probably give up to 25% total cost reduction (this takes into account the costs of maintaining and using the ships and their respective equipment).
The problem with each of these claims is largely the source material: not what the average individual would describe as credible. The first and third claims seem relatively tame on their face - statements of economics and of the efficiency of a certain project. The second one is significantly more absurd - one that couples absurdly optimistic performance assumptions with associated claims of economies of scale. Generally, it's easy to make anything seem feasible if you take highly optimistic assumptions about future growth and best-case performance, and that can honestly be somewhat meaningless.
In truth, we have a credibility problem to address here. We don't have detailed financial information about a private company's business, so we have to look at the evidence we do have:
The lack of verifiable numbers, and the consistent rightward shift of the "next iteration will wave a magic wand and erase the problems" mentality is a key facet of the refinement fallacy approach to these topics. Although there is not exactly hard proof available one way or the other (which does leave lots of leeway for speculation), the partial evidence provided does provide sufficient room to warrant significant skepticism.
>A common rebuttal to reuse and SpaceX making money is that ULA makes way more profits than SpaceX. While true, this statement does not take into account the lower prices that SpaceX offers compared to ULA and where that money is going.
What is perhaps more meaningful here is the matter of structural profitability. Generally, more budget services do make a smaller per-unit profit than the more expensive units; the former makes up for the difference in volume. But more meaningful is the more fundamental factors: is the business, including its forward-looking development plans, funded primarily by its operating profits, or by an influx of external capital? Investment is always a staple of large capital expenditures, but there is a massive difference between supplementing a healthy business profit with some external cash for faster development and relying on that money to just keep on top of the current batch of tasks without clearly achievable milestones to turn the trend around (often depending instead on pie-in-the-sky promises of grand successes). One may ask, which do we actually see here?
>Currently, SpaceX is the only launch provider with commercially viable reusable launch vehicles. But it won't be that way much further into the 2020s. Future competitors include: Blue Origin's New Glenn, ULA's Vulcan-Centuar, and possibly China and India.
Launch vehicle reusability has been a long-pursued topic in well-developed space programs all over the world. That has been the case for many decades, it will continue to be the case for years to come. However, two things become quickly clear:
Bold claims about a radically different future generally are far too presumptuous, assuming a world of highly optimistic possibilities without sufficiently considering the more immediate (and generally more mundane) economic and political conditions under which they operate. Again, some things end up as just proposals or prototypes, some things become something more; what a different world we would live in if all the promises of the past decades came true. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Just me, but I do have a book recommendation: Fundamentals of Astrodynamics - a fairly elementary, but highly informative, book on the principles of orbital mechanics. Great both for learning the basics at an engineering (as opposed to hobbyist) level, and as a reference if you happen to work with the stuff on a daily basis.
Griffiths for Quantum Mechanics and E&M
Taylor's Classical Mechanics
Kittel & Kroemer for Statistical Thermodynamics
These are the only ones I can attest to personally, they're for undergraduate level understanding. Kittel&Kroemer can seem dense and difficult to understand at first, but once you work through problems and spend time on each chapter, it will become apparent how efficient the book is.
Most engineers have this on their desk
https://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
>but I'd highly recommend getting a decent grammar book and learning English grammar properly.
Strunk & White - The Elements of Style. It's cheap (and probably available at damn near any library), you can probably read it in a day, and it will cover the bases for most things you'll need if you're not being explicitly tested on the fine details of the language. If OP is still in school, it's also very, very likely that at least one English teacher in their school has a copy.
You can read the original text by Strunk here for free, if you're seriously hard-up for cash. It is now nearly a century old, but it's still a fine reference.
I mean Dragon with a Second stage is on the cover of Rocket Propulsion Elements in the eighth edition
and a F9 Dance Floor on the ninth
that's a kind of big one already
Personally, I think the best place for a lay-person to start getting a technical grasp of electronics is from the "Navy Electricity and
Electronics Training Series" (NEETS) modules. The modules don't always describe the electrical behavior in a rigorous physics/engineering based way, but instead, they provide more practical explanations and applications. The best part is that they are freely available here.
As a next step, the standard go-to book is The Art of Electronics, which while it is a little pricey, covers a greater breadth of topics at a greater depth.
edit: typo.
It's a fantastic book. No need to get all of them though, this is a pic of the third edition (2015), the second edition (1989), and the first edition (1980). You can skip the first and second.
The Art of Electronics. Otherwise, his textbooks should suffice.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Machinerys-Handbook-Toolbox-Franklin-Holbrook/dp/0831130911
It's up to 30
If visualizing complex analysis is your thing, I'd suggest "Visual Complex Analysis" by Tristan Needham.
I took a look at your previous posts, here some pointers.
First: Basics.
Second: Writing.
> Mom walks up to me and says I looked a little disoriented, and I just say its nothing. I don't know why, but that creeped me out.
What creeped you out? Your mom's asking you? Or the events before?
> "Hey! I thought it would be fun to go see a movie, so we are going to the 10 o'clock showing of the new star trek movie tonight. I can't wait to see you and your brother again." He said. "Wow. Okay..." I said. Not even a hello or goodbye.
much easier:
> "Hey! I thought it would be fun to go see a movie, so we are going to the 10 o'clock showing of the new star trek movie tonight. I can't wait to see you and your brother again." He said.
> "Wow. Okay..." I said.
> Not even a hello or goodbye.
Lastly: Make us hear and feel things. Give us a chance to feel what you feel
> When I hear tapping. And then water. Then, without warning, the toilet flushes in a bathroom that has always been manual flush. I hear walking, she shadows, the lights flicker, and I hurry up to wash my hands and get out.
This should be three or four paragraphs rather than four sentences. Where does the tapping come from? How loud is it? How did you notice it first?
What does "And then water" mean? You heard water flowing somewhere? You saw water on the floor, running into your stall?
You hear WALKING and you tell us nothing about it? Silent? fast? did you see feet? Did it sound like bare feet or hard soles?
You need to paint a picture that we can see, hear, smell and touch.
That is the actually my main point: How to format your writing and spellcheck should be the minimum and are required for any story to be worth reading. Learn that, there is no way around it. Look at stories you like and see why they are good - your formatting should never be in the way of your story.
But what you need to practice is to paint that picture. Try to sit down and describe one simple mundane thing. Try to describe, as in-depth as possible, what it feels like to sit on your chair. Describe the scene you see out of your window - not just "there's a house", instead make that house visible for someone thousands of miles or hours away. Try to describe what your mother's footsteps on the corridor sound like. Where are they? How does the volume change? Are they hurried or does her heel strike the floor hard? Are they louder if she carries heavy objects?
When you are able to do that you can take the stories you wrote and develop them from a summary of your experience into a full-blown story. Tell the tale, and of course feel free to add some more fiction to make it creepier. Maybe you did see feet, or maybe you did hear something soft rubbing along the window or door or maybe even your stall. Don't limit yourself to "reality".
tl;dr (1) Learn proper formatting - simply by reading more and by trying to figure out when and where it works and when and where it doesn't. Look at a book or story you enjoy and see how the paragraphs are layed out. Also get yourself a copy of Strunk & White. (2) Practice painting that picture (in all senses, not just visually). Then you will get places :)
Try a Pocket Ref. It's so packed full of amazing stuff. So much information, tables, charts, graphs, conversions.... super useful.
Buy this book - you can do the calculations yourself if you're interested in learning how they're done:
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334804519&sr=8-1-fkmr1
It's cheap too.
Well, electronics is a huge field, and especially if you're going to get into software radio, basic fundamentals of amplifiers and modulation techniques is a must. Don't get discouraged though, internet is abound in information.
Here are some books that may help to start:
The Art of Electronics
Especially if you can get the used Cambridge Low Price Edition. Either way, it's a good book for fundamentals, a classic too.
This book is ok:
Communications Receivers
For general electronics knowledge, some undergrad EE textbooks are solid gold.
Here's one that's great:
Circuits, Devices and Systems
Edit:
Another excellent resource for folks dabbling in electronics are these free simulators:
Paul Falstad's Circuit Simulator
Hades
The above are great before one gets to dip into SPICE.
Play Kerbal Space Program (seriously). Then pick a book (like this one), it's a much better way to go.
Your post has too little context/content for anyone to give you particularly relevant or specific advice. You should list what you know already and what you’re trying to learn. I find it’s easiest to research a new subject when I have a concrete problem I’m trying to solve.
But anyway, I’m going to assume you studied up through single variable calculus and are reasonably motivated to put some effort in with your reading. Here are some books which you might enjoy, depending on your interests. All should be reasonably accessible (to, say, a sharp and motivated undergraduate), but they’ll all take some work:
(in no particular order)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (wikipedia)
To Mock a Mockingbird (wikipedia)
Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design
Geometry and the Imagination
Visual Group Theory (website)
The Little Schemer (website)
Visual Complex Analysis (website)
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (website)
Music, a Mathematical Offering (website)
QED
Mathematics and its History
The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics
Proofs from THE BOOK (wikipedia)
Concrete Mathematics (website, wikipedia)
The Symmetries of Things
Quantum Computing Since Democritus (website)
Solid Shape
On Numbers and Games (wikipedia)
Street-Fighting Mathematics (website)
But also, you’ll probably get more useful response somewhere else, e.g. /r/learnmath. (On /r/math you’re likely to attract downvotes with a question like this.)
You might enjoy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/2mkmk0/a_compilation_of_useful_free_online_math_resources/
https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/top/?sort=top&t=all
I'm assigning you some required reading.
The Blue Book of Grammar
The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need
The Elements of Style
Thank me later.
Buy yourself of copy of the art of electronics. Pick one or two topics from that book every day and read about them. It covers pretty much every aspect of EE without going into an insane amount of detail. Use that to narrow your focus once you find something that really interests you. EE is a huge area of engineering and you’re not gonna like all aspects of it but the art of electronics is a great start.
The Art of Electronics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_FeY5BbNKDNXSF
Edit: to add on to this. Adafruit has a ton of more entry level friendly tutorials and stuff. Find a component on their store and they’ll have tons of projects and tutorials using those components. They don’t get much in to how it all works. You’re going to have to read for that. Kahn academy is pretty good at explaining stuff too.
Machinery's Handbook. I'm an ME student and my dad's an ME. He gifted me this saying it was an important reference book and he was not wrong.
Shigley's is great for learning how to design and why you design the way you do. It's the book I used in college and still reference at work. I'm not so sure it'd be great for a novice engineer. For a more practical approach, I'd recommend a few below (not necessarily in this order):
A nice free reference manual that includes all sorts of design equations is the NCEES reference handbook. I used it back when I took my FE exam (the first exam you take before you become what's call a "Professional Engineer" in the US). It's a nice PDF to have around, though it doesn't go into a lot of explanation as to what the equations are.
A few web resources I use are: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/, http://www.roymech.co.uk/
I'm sure I'll think of some more and, if I do, I'll update this post.
Hope that helps.
A few degrees warmer is about how much we can stand. So, with that few degrees comes at least a few feet of sea level rise, likely more. So coastal areas that tend to be the highest populated, are going to need to retreat from the coast. That's going to be a huge economic burden. How is that burden born? Best left to economists I suppose....
Also, California and the west will tend to get drier, which will affect agriculture and I would venture agricultural costs. The mid-west is also slated to become drier, this is at a time when the Ogallala aquifer is being sucked dry, so we are going to be running out of a pretty precious resource in large chunks of the US. Further abroad, with melting glaciers hundreds of millions may be left without water. The middle east is supposed to also dry up. This is likely to create a humanitarian crisis.
There could be significant changes in disease distributions as well. With things like malaria, Zika, etc. becoming more prevalent in the US because of a spread of their vektors (e.g., certain tropical mosquito species).
Depending on the severity, much of the Amazon rain forest may dry out, though there is some good debate around that topic. Coral reefs laregly won't be able to keep up, which could crash some fisheries and ecosystems. Forest diseases may be more prevalent (e.g., emerald ash borer in the eastern US that is wiping out ash trees), and extinction rates are thought to spike, with 20-30% of species at risk of extinction.
Check out a book 6 degrees. I haven't read it yet, but it's on my wish list - supposed to be a good run down of the catastrphe that 6 degrees of warming will bring - basically an end of civilization as we know it. Some respected scientists think that the population will end up crashing to 1 billion in the next century..... that will cause some chaos...
Six Degrees by Mark Lynas. Great book, he read 3000 papers on the effects of climate change and summarized them, with extensive references. One chapter per degree C.
At 3C it just looks disastrous. At 4C the survival of modern civilization starts to look doubtful. At 6C it's hard to imagine our species surviving to any meaningful extent.
Introduction to Electrodynamics
Rocket Propulsion Elements
/u/another_user_name posted this list a while back. Actual aerospace textbooks are towards the bottom but you'll need a working knowledge of the prereqs first.
Non-core/Pre-reqs:
Mathematics:
Calculus.
1-4) Calculus, Stewart -- This is a very common book and I felt it was ok, but there's mixed opinions about it. Try to get a cheap, used copy.
1-4) Calculus, A New Horizon, Anton -- This is highly valued by many people, but I haven't read it.
1-4) Essential Calculus With Applications, Silverman -- Dover book.
More discussion in this reddit thread.
Linear Algebra
3) Linear Algebra and Its Applications,Lay -- I had this one in school. I think it was decent.
3) Linear Algebra, Shilov -- Dover book.
Differential Equations
4) An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations, Coddington -- Dover book, highly reviewed on Amazon.
G) Partial Differential Equations, Evans
G) Partial Differential Equations For Scientists and Engineers, Farlow
More discussion here.
Numerical Analysis
5) Numerical Analysis, Burden and Faires
Chemistry:
Physics:
2-4) Physics, Cutnel -- This was highly recommended, but I've not read it.
Programming:
Introductory Programming
Programming is becoming unavoidable as an engineering skill. I think Python is a strong introductory language that's got a lot of uses in industry.
Core Curriculum:
Introduction:
Aerodynamics:
Thermodynamics, Heat transfer and Propulsion:
Flight Mechanics, Stability and Control
5+) Flight Stability and Automatic Control, Nelson
5+)[Performance, Stability, Dynamics, and Control of Airplanes, Second Edition](http://www.amazon.com/Performance-Stability-Dynamics-Airplanes-Education/dp/1563475839/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315534435&sr=8-1, Pamadi) -- I gather this is better than Nelson
Engineering Mechanics and Structures:
3-4) Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics, Hibbeler
6-8) Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures, Bruhn -- A good reference, never really used it as a text.
G) Introduction to the Mechanics of a Continuous Medium, Malvern
G) Fracture Mechanics, Anderson
G) Mechanics of Composite Materials, Jones
Electrical Engineering
Design and Optimization
Space Systems
Thanks!
link for anyone interested: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
If you want a textbook Introduction to Elementary Particles by Griffiths has quite a bit in it and has some nice examples worked out. Should be in a university library.
Learning electronics is a lot like music. There is an insane amount of information, but if you get an economic working knowledge under your belt, you can really do some amazing things. In order for you not to get lost in the rabbit hole, I will provide you these methods of learning practical hobby electronics.
First, is simply just a suggestion. There are two "domains" of electronic thinking and analysis: digital and analogue. Fuck analog right in its dumb face. The math used in analog is fucking super duper hard, and analog circuits are prone to interference problems. Digital is where you want to be. It's vastly simpler to use programmable digital parts, and analyze digital circuits. Don't get lost in AC equations of capacitor, or the god damned transistor equation (seriously, fuck that. )
Okay here is how I learned hobby digital electronics:
First buy this, and go through all the examples in the workbooks. When you learn electronics you 100% HAVE TO DO HANDS ON LEARNING! DONT LEARN IT FROM A BOOK! MAKE CIRCUITS!
https://www.amazon.com/Radio-Shack-Electronics-Learning-20-055/dp/B00GYYEL8I
At the same time, read this (which is a good topical explanation, and free):
http://jacquesricher.com/NEETS/
And buy and read this (which is an EXCELLENT formal introduction into the physics):
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336
Also you are going to learn how to program, which is an entirely different topic. Programming and hobby electronics make you a master of the universe, so it's worth it. I learned programming in the electronics domain and it was awesome. I made a microcontroller FM synthesizer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TvuzTK3Dzk
So basically, the way I learned programming in general was self-teaching with books. Again, you have to do it hands-on. Actually complete the examples in the books, and you'll be fine.
First, learn procedural c programming using C primer plus. Buy an older version so it'll be super cheap:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0672326965/ref=sr_1_3_twi_pap_1_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465827790&sr=1-3&keywords=c+primer+plus
Next, learn Object oriented programming using head first java. They do a great job of tackling OOP, which can be a difficult thing to learn.
https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465827860&sr=1-1&keywords=head+first+java
You're overwhelmed because they're deep topics. But, seriously, its the most fun shit ever. You'll love learning how to do it.
No, neither this book nor The Art of Electronics is good for beginners. I recommend Practical Electronics for Inventors. (Ignore the "Inventors" part, the book has nothing to do with that.)
There's "A Mathematical Coloring Book": http://www.lulu.com/content/4858716 (free download!)
Somewhat more serious, I like "Visual Complex Analysis": http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complex-Analysis-Tristan-Needham/dp/0198534469/
It isn't a website, but Strunk and White is an incredibly valuable resource for any writer.
I did learn all of this stuff from experience. Honestly, I had a little bit of a tough time right out of college because I didn't have much practical circuit design experience. I now feel like I have a very good foundation for that and it came through experience, learning from my peers, and lots of research. I have no affiliation with Henry Ott, but I treat his book like a bible . I refer to it just about every time I do a board design. Why? because it's packed with this type of practical information. Here's his book. I bought mine used as cheap as I could. At my previous job, they just had one in the library. Either way, it was good to have around.
So why should you care about electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)? A couple reasons:
Anyways, it's definitely worth looking at and is a huge asset if you can follow those guidelines. Be prepared to enter the workforce and see rampant disregard for EMC best practices as well as rampant EMC problems in existing products. This is common because, as I said, it's not taught and engineers often don't know what tools to use to fix it. It often leads to expensive solutions where a few extra caps and a better layout would have sufficed.
A couple more books I personally like and use:
Howard Johnson, High Speed Digital Design (it's from 1993, but still works well)
Horowitz and Hill, The Art of Electronics (good for understanding just about anything, good for finding tricks and ideas to help you for problems you haven't solved before but someone probably has)
Last thing since I'm sitting here typing anyways:
When I first got out of college, I really didn't trust myself even when I had done extensive research on a particular part of design. I was surrounded by engineers who also didn't have the experience or knowledge to say whether I was on the right path or not. It's important to use whatever resources you have to gain experience, even if those resources are books alone. It's unlikely that you will be lucky and get a job working with the world's best EE who will teach you everything you need to know. When I moved on from my first job after college, I found out that I was on the right path on many things thanks to my research and hard work. This was in opposition to my thinking before then as my colleagues at my first job were never confident in our own ability to "do EE the right way" - as in, the way that engineers at storied, big companies like Texas Instruments and Google had done. Hope that anecdotal story pushes you to keep going and learning more!
Machinery's Handbook - 30th Edition. It's commonly referred to as the "Machinist's Bible". It's not so much an instructional book as it is a reference; however, I've learned so much from it. It's got detailed information on taps and dies, milling, turning, welding, heat treating, machine shop economics, mechanics and physics, measuring, properties of materials, and I could go on. It's kind of expensive, but it really is worth every dime. Look around online for good deals, I got mine (30th Ed - Toolbox Edition) for about $65 new on Jet.com. The only differences between the Large-Print and the Toolbox-Edition are the size of the book and the size of the print. The full size book is 7"x10" with larger print, and the toolbox is 7"x4.5" with fairly small print. They both have the exact same content. If you have poor vision, buy the full size for sure. If you're going to be a metalworker for a living, or even just a weekend machinist, you'll keep this book for the rest of your life.
Mostly YouTube videos and online articles. One book in particular I do recommend however is "Practical Electronics for Inventors". Tons of great information, but may be a bit too much if you're a complete noob.
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541
These websites also have lots of great info:
http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/
It was called "The Art of Electronics"
Here's the Amazon link.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_yd.UBbKSAF1SH
assuming you have all the fundamental physic, you can start with the textbook from allaboutcircuits's textbook. A introduction to electronic book. It is about 2000 pages covering all basics of electronics. I think it is a great read and easy to understand, written for beginners.
After that you should read Make:AVR programming. It is quite enjoyable read and I read it in 2 sitting. A computer engineering book specifically targeting microcontroller. And as the name imply, it is about 8 bit AVR which is easily the most popular arduino variant. It covers a lot of detail on microcontroller basics and underlying electronic concept and working principles.
To supplement the above book, read a atmel datasheet on one of their microcontroller (atmega328 is a good choice).
For optional knowledge you can try Make's Encyclopedia Of Electronic Components It basically covers all electronic components and introduce you to it. I didn't like too much because you cant read it as a book but should use it as a reference to a particular component you are interested it. It is a great way to broaden your scope on what components is available to you.
Then for the advanced stuff you can read the The Art of Electronics By many it is consider the holy grail of electronic textbook. But I think it is difficult to read without an formal EE education.
Machine Design by Norton
Theory of Machines and Mechanisms by Shigley
are considered the two bibles on machine design and are common in machine design courses.
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by Ashby
The Machinery's Handbook is a must have and I assume you already know about this.
Mechanisms and Mechanical Designs Sourcebook is good to help spark ideas or solve problems. There are other books along the same lines.
There's information on tolerancing and machining in The Machinery's Handbook especially. I'm not sure on other resources for those. There are books on manufacturing processes that'll discuss the tolerances capable and design limitations.
I polled Reddit once, asking which books everyone would recommend. This one was by far the most suggested, followed by Practical Electronics for Inventors. I was gifted both last Christmas, but still haven't found the time to open them up. I'd like to go on a vacation somewhere cozy, and just power through this one.
The "... for Inventors" book is more something that you'd reference on an as-needed basis. Not as much teaching and instruction as this one.
Here you go:
Between those texts, you will have everything you need to know about stress analysis and design in products.
David J. Griffiths: E+M book, QM book.
Chances are you recognize him now?
Old retired guy here......
On my bucket list, I thought I'd take a shot at learning some physics from the bottom up. Here are some observations from someone who tried to learn it without any worries about needing it for a major or trying to get into grad school.
First, elementary physics labs stink. Sometimes you get stuck with a bad lab partner. Other times the equipment is in really bad shape and simply will not work so that the experiment will do what it is supposed to do. If you get a lab assistant who does not know what he/she is doing - and there are quite a few of those - you can forget about a decent lab experience.
Second, intermediate physics labs can be great. I was teamed with an undergraduate I still refer to as Mr. GoldenHands. He could make any piece of lab equipment do what he wanted it to do and what it was supposed to do. I would do calculations and draw graphs while he got the data out with only a little help from me. Furthermore, the lab assistant we had was actually a full professor of physics who was an experienced experimentalist. What my partner did not know about the equipment, he did. Great course.
Physics exams are unnecessarily hard. In a Mathematics exam, students are usually asked about material they have some shot at solving. They will be asked for definitions or statements of theorems that they have seen. They will be asked to answer questions about material they already have seen. In a physics exam, you will get a question completely out of left field that seems to have no relation to anything you have studied previously. No wonder average grades on exams sometimes in the thirties or forties.
Physics professors in undergraduate classes frequently have curricular tunnel vision. "This is the mechanics book. I will go through the book chapter by chapter frequently skipping chapters I do not like. If somebody ask me a question I can not answer such as 'What is the difference between the Lagrangian and Newtonian formulations of mechanics and why is one preferable to the other?' I will brush it off."
(I actually asked this question and got brushed off.) Don't do that!
SLOW DOWN!!!! Physicists seem to be very interested in moving through a course at a breakneck pace that does not allow for any time for internalizing a subject. I'll give an example. Look at Introduction to Electrodynamics by David Griffiths. On page ix of the third edition, Griffith's says that the book can be covered "comfortably in two semesters." A little later, he talks about one semester courses finishing chapter seven. OK. I took a one semester course from that book. The professor skipped chapter one - it was only mathematics, so that was ok by me - and then went like a house-afire and ended the first semester at the end of chapter 10. He did not make any attempt to make the material intuitive. (I had a terrible time with current density.) He just motored through it symbol by symbol and expected everybody to understand. We didn't. (I am going to take another course in electrodynamics at another university some day just so I can understand Maxwell's equations. For me there is nothing riding on this except intellectual curiosity. For other undergraduates, the type of course I just described was a killer.)
I'll stop now but I am sure there are other who could chime in with other problems.
Bottom Line: I like physics and I intend to learn more, but physics teaching should change.
Don't read Feynman. While it's extremely dense and good, it's also very unconventional and hard to understand if you don't know where it's going already.
I'd suggest Griffiths or Zee's Nutshell. While both are technically textbooks, i think you can read them very well without necessarily understanding all calculations.
Of course, those are damn expensive so you should better look for them in a library.
I would recommend Introduction to "Elementary Particle Physics" by David Griffiths
Its generally considered a higher-level undergrad book, but as a PhD student I still look at it from time to time, especially if I want to teach a specific subject. He will review the SR and Quantum for you, but at a level that you'd want to have seen it before. There's calc and a little bit of linear algebra, but at such a level that you could learn them for the first time through this text (assuming you've had SOME Calc before)
From there, the next level is sort of "Quarks and Leptons" by Halzen and Martin, which people are generally less excited about, but I enjoyed it.
After that, the top standard that even theorists seem to love is "High Energy Hadron Physics" by Martin Perl, where there are parts of that text that I still struggle with.
These:
How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets by Christ North and Paul Abel.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence Krauss.
Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan.
Foundations of Astrophysics by Barbara Ryden and Bradley Peterson.
Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program by Pat Duggins.
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield.
You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station by Chris Hadfield.
Space Shuttle: The History of Developing the Space Transportation System by Dennis Jenkins.
Wings in Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle, 1971-2010 by Chapline, Hale, Lane, and Lula.
No Downlink: A Dramatic Narrative About the Challenger Accident and Our Time by Claus Jensen.
Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences by Andrew Chaikin.
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin.
Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA by Amy Teitel.
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module by Thomas Kelly.
The Scientific Exploration of Venus by Fredric Taylor.
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe.
Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her by Rowland White and Richard Truly.
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Bradley Carroll and Dale Ostlie.
Rockets, Missiles, and Men in Space by Willy Ley.
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Clark.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
Russia in Space by Anatoly Zak.
Rain Of Iron And Ice: The Very Real Threat Of Comet And Asteroid Bombardment by John Lewis.
Mining the Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets by John Lewis.
Asteroid Mining: Wealth for the New Space Economy by John Lewis.
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris.
The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe Report by Timothy Ferris.
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandries by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson.
The Martian by Andy Weir.
Packing for Mars:The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach.
The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution by Frank White.
Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler.
The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne.
Entering Space: An Astronaut’s Oddyssey by Joseph Allen.
International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems by Hopkins, Hopkins, and Isakowitz.
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene.
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin.
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age by William Burrows.
The Last Man on the Moon by Eugene Cernan.
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz.
Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
The end
This was what my prof used in college
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486600610/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_0.eJAb3FG9KQ0
I liked it a lot, but that may have to do with him being an amazing teacher and not the book itself lol
This book was my textbook for my Spacecraft Dynamics course and honestly is awesome. It's not light reading, but if you just want to understand it, this is the book to read. There should be .PDFs online for free
You have to "bootstrap" somewhere. At the VERY bottom is generally NOT a productive or practical way to do it. We used to have a joke in EE school: "If want a good laugh, ask a physicist to design a circuit for you". The reason it's funny is they'll start designing from quantum mechanics or Maxwell's equation as they usually don't ever learn all the tricks we have in EE to "short-circuit" the process.
Basically start with analog circuits (Ohm's law) for DC, advance to AC and then to circuits and systems. You can go deeper but at the start frankly most people will get wrapped around the axle and give up first.
Everything from Grand Unification up to your iPhone is built on approximate models with assumptions that are not strictly correct all of the time if ever. In electronics you have circuits bounded by Quantum Mechanics and Maxwell's Equations as "actual physics". You can't actually use these for 99% of anything practical so these are not the best starting points.
Instead you use approximate models like Lumped Equivalent Model (which is what resistors, capacitors and inductors are: that resistor in your hand - it's not real - just an approximation). But you don't really want to learn that up front.
However if you want a reference that goes into the physics of electronics I'd recommend The Physics of Information Technology. Not cheap so borrow it from a library first.
But ONLY use it when you get that itch to naively dig into the physics for a quick dip or overview or orientation. Otherwise use regular electrical engineering (EE) intro analog circuit textbooks or something like Horowitz' Art of Electronics
Unless you have a physics or engineering degree TPIT will still go straight over your head mostly (the author is an MIT professor and he relatively gentle by BSEE/BS Physics standards on the math but it's brutal if you haven't had several years of university math).
The Art of Electronics, 2nd Edition. You can easily find free pdf versions of the book online just by typing "the art of electronics pdf" into google. Or you can purchase the book on sites like amazon for ~$100.
Best online resource: All about circuits
Best Book: Art of Electronics
Best starting projects: Working with the basic stamp (though any other microcontroller kit would work just as well)
IMO you want Bate's Fundamentals of Astrodynamics.
I don't want to speak out of turn, as I wasn't alive at the time, but my professors claim to have learned everything on this bad boy. It's great for getting a grasp on the concepts and well worth the 15 dollar price tag even just to put on your shelf to sit there and look cool. I got it with that in mind and it's become my go-to. Admittedly, computational approaches have changed the standard regarding some of the info in this text but the core concepts are there and it makes the content approachable.
Whenever a movie is portraying a technical subject, they usually massacre the topic. I've a degree in Physics, I'm a computer techie for my day job, and I'm a huge science geek - so I cringe a lot at the movies. A LOT. Unless the most technical or scientific object in the movie is a stone hammer, in which case I may cringe only a little.
But whereas essentially all such movies get 100% of the technical topic wrong, Gravity is more like half-and-half. And the half that they "got wrong" was the one that would have made the movie boring and would have made large parts of the narrative impossible (or difficult to tell in a non-documentary). I was actually very impressed and excited with all the parts they got right. I loved it, all the while being very aware of the physical impossibilities popping up across the narrative.
Yes, I know about horribly expensive orbital plane changes, and Hohmann orbits, and the narrow re-entry window, and all that stuff, so don't even start it. If you want accuracy and physical realism, break out Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, by Bate, Mueller & White, and splurge on. But this movie ain't it, never was, never will be. And that's just the way things ought to be.
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P.S.: The main topic of the movie was rebirth. Not gravity, not space flight. Rebirth. Learning to let go of past (as Clooney's character literally says at some point), and being born into a new life. There's even a fetal position with an umbilical cord somewhere in the movie (not literally, but broadly suggested by a lingering shot of Sandra Bullock), and then later all sorts of emerging from dark waters with red mud all around, in case the metaphor needed any more emphasis. It was not even too subtle.
As to what "gravity" is a metaphor of - well, it should be obvious by now.
I started with circuit bending. I took a student-taught class as part of the Oberlin College ExCo, which is the Experimental College, where any student can teach a class for a single credit, provided they can demonstrate to a faculty panel that they have something to teach and a plan on how to teach it. That got me started on instrument building, and also on circuit design. I worked on that as a hobby for several years, until eventually I was friends with some people who were getting into Eurorack manufacturing: the 4MS crew, when they were still in Austin. Ralph and Dan encouraged me to move from bending (and breaking) toys into creating circuits, and gave me a few good starting tips (and copies of a few Forrest Mims books, which are absolutely invaluable). Another year or two after that, I was talking with Mickey, and he mentioned that he had the good problem that his modules were selling too fast, and he was bored of soldering, and wanted more time to design. I piped up quick. "I know how to solder! I'm very good at it." The second part was a lie. It's true now, though! Everything more advanced that I know about circuits I've learned from Mickey, the internet, and a bit more book learnin', especially from The Art of Electronics. I told the story of getting started on the pedal (which was my first commercial pedal) elsewhere in this thread.
The biggest hiccup was finding ROHS compliant vactrols! But we're cool on that now. Thanks, XVIVE!
Get a practical electronics book right off the bat if you are into electronics. Something like this (or perhaps this):
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336?ie=UTF8&keywords=electrical%20engineering&qid=1460691202&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1
Also note the price-tag. This book is a gem.
University textbooks often don't have the right mindset to them and now that I've finished my degree and out in the workforce I'm realizing this. You want a book that will actually teach you how to build something. The field of EE also loves to apply a whole bunch of meanings to a few terms, for example "electricity" and "grounding", which can very easily confuse and mislead beginners. Practical books tend to address these things a bit better in my opinion. This applies to any field - I'm an Industrial Engineer (power, motors, control, safety) and also own a book of this type on my field - here in Canada we have Techs and Engineers. The Techs tend to learn how to actually do things, and these are the types of books they read.
Regarding textbooks: something I've only discovered recently is buying Eastern Edition textbooks as they're much cheaper and essentially the same thing.
You can find formulas for gear force/strength in Shigley's. You kind of need to know the material properties to find out the max torque but you can just use a general steel.
150NM (110ft*lbs) isn't a massive amount, so if you keep the RPM down low so friction isn't a major concern I wouldn't assume there would be an issue.
Author of two widely used undergratuate physics texts: one for Electricity and Magnetism and one for Quantum Mechanics. He also authored the somewhat-less-widely used (perhaps mainly because it's a specialist subject in most undergrad programs) Introduction to Elementary Particles.
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
What if it was this instead
I'd like to give you my two cents as well on how to proceed here. If nothing else, this will be a second opinion. If I could redo my physics education, this is how I'd want it done.
If you are truly wanting to learn these fields in depth I cannot stress how important it is to actually work problems out of these books, not just read them. There is a certain understanding that comes from struggling with problems that you just can't get by reading the material. On that note, I would recommend getting the Schaum's outline to whatever subject you are studying if you can find one. They are great books with hundreds of solved problems and sample problems for you to try with the answers in the back. When you get to the point you can't find Schaums anymore, I would recommend getting as many solutions manuals as possible. The problems will get very tough, and it's nice to verify that you did the problem correctly or are on the right track, or even just look over solutions to problems you decide not to try.
Basics
I second Stewart's Calculus cover to cover (except the final chapter on differential equations) and Halliday, Resnick and Walker's Fundamentals of Physics. Not all sections from HRW are necessary, but be sure you have the fundamentals of mechanics, electromagnetism, optics, and thermal physics down at the level of HRW.
Once you're done with this move on to studying differential equations. Many physics theorems are stated in terms of differential equations so really getting the hang of these is key to moving on. Differential equations are often taught as two separate classes, one covering ordinary differential equations and one covering partial differential equations. In my opinion, a good introductory textbook to ODEs is one by Morris Tenenbaum and Harry Pollard. That said, there is another book by V. I. Arnold that I would recommend you get as well. The Arnold book may be a bit more mathematical than you are looking for, but it was written as an introductory text to ODEs and you will have a deeper understanding of ODEs after reading it than your typical introductory textbook. This deeper understanding will be useful if you delve into the nitty-gritty parts of classical mechanics. For partial differential equations I recommend the book by Haberman. It will give you a good understanding of different methods you can use to solve PDEs, and is very much geared towards problem-solving.
From there, I would get a decent book on Linear Algebra. I used the one by Leon. I can't guarantee that it's the best book out there, but I think it will get the job done.
This should cover most of the mathematical training you need to move onto the intermediate level physics textbooks. There will be some things that are missing, but those are usually covered explicitly in the intermediate texts that use them (i.e. the Delta function). Still, if you're looking for a good mathematical reference, my recommendation is Lua. It may be a good idea to go over some basic complex analysis from this book, though it is not necessary to move on.
Intermediate
At this stage you need to do intermediate level classical mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and thermal physics at the very least. For electromagnetism, Griffiths hands down. In my opinion, the best pedagogical book for intermediate classical mechanics is Fowles and Cassidy. Once you've read these two books you will have a much deeper understanding of the stuff you learned in HRW. When you're going through the mechanics book pay particular attention to generalized coordinates and Lagrangians. Those become pretty central later on. There is also a very old book by Robert Becker that I think is great. It's problems are tough, and it goes into concepts that aren't typically covered much in depth in other intermediate mechanics books such as statics. I don't think you'll find a torrent for this, but it is 5 bucks on Amazon. That said, I don't think Becker is necessary. For quantum, I cannot recommend Zettili highly enough. Get this book. Tons of worked out examples. In my opinion, Zettili is the best quantum book out there at this level. Finally for thermal physics I would use Mandl. This book is merely sufficient, but I don't know of a book that I liked better.
This is the bare minimum. However, if you find a particular subject interesting, delve into it at this point. If you want to learn Solid State physics there's Kittel. Want to do more Optics? How about Hecht. General relativity? Even that should be accessible with Schutz. Play around here before moving on. A lot of very fascinating things should be accessible to you, at least to a degree, at this point.
Advanced
Before moving on to physics, it is once again time to take up the mathematics. Pick up Arfken and Weber. It covers a great many topics. However, at times it is not the best pedagogical book so you may need some supplemental material on whatever it is you are studying. I would at least read the sections on coordinate transformations, vector analysis, tensors, complex analysis, Green's functions, and the various special functions. Some of this may be a bit of a review, but there are some things Arfken and Weber go into that I didn't see during my undergraduate education even with the topics that I was reviewing. Hell, it may be a good idea to go through the differential equations material in there as well. Again, you may need some supplemental material while doing this. For special functions, a great little book to go along with this is Lebedev.
Beyond this, I think every physicist at the bare minimum needs to take graduate level quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, electromagnetism, and statistical mechanics. For quantum, I recommend Cohen-Tannoudji. This is a great book. It's easy to understand, has many supplemental sections to help further your understanding, is pretty comprehensive, and has more worked examples than a vast majority of graduate text-books. That said, the problems in this book are LONG. Not horrendously hard, mind you, but they do take a long time.
Unfortunately, Cohen-Tannoudji is the only great graduate-level text I can think of. The textbooks in other subjects just don't measure up in my opinion. When you take Classical mechanics I would get Goldstein as a reference but a better book in my opinion is Jose/Saletan as it takes a geometrical approach to the subject from the very beginning. At some point I also think it's worth going through Arnold's treatise on Classical. It's very mathematical and very difficult, but I think once you make it through you will have as deep an understanding as you could hope for in the subject.
Pale Blue Dot
And Pale Blue Dot.
Understanding a circuit does require understanding the fundmantal building blocks. For that, there is no better guide than the Art of Electronics. While you might find a guide that says, "this circuit works with a common emitter amplifier," you aren't going to find guides that alway explain those fundamental circuits.
That's where AoE comes in. All of the building blocks are explain in plain simple language. It is worth every penny and I recommend everyone who is interested in circuit design to have a copy. If you can get a good deal on the 2nd edition (e.g. half the price of the 3rd), then go that route. The vast majority of the information is still fine on the older book.
NCEES Study Material
Machinery's Handbook
Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain
I used this book: http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336
I focused on stuff in that book that looked less familiar to me, but ultimately went through every chapter the Mechanical discipline would cover. I worked out practice problems and studied the theory behind everything.
Overall, I spent about 2 weeks of light studying and 1 week of hard studying. I allotted a good portion of my winter break to studying, and it was worth it because I handily passed the exam. I did not think it was too tough.
The link below is a book that is supposedly pretty helpful. I haven't used it myself but from what my friends have told me, its the best option. Plus, if you fail the exam (don't do that) they'll give you your money back. And its only 45 bucks, not 150 so much more affordable.
I'm in my senior year and this is the book our professors recommend.
http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457224799&sr=8-1&keywords=FE+exam+Review
Get the NCEES exam handbook (http://www.amazon.com/Supplied-Reference-Handbook-8th-2nd-revision/dp/1932613595/). The big key (to most of engineering / life IMHO) is knowing where / how to find the information, not knowing everything off the top of your head. They give you the same book the day of the exam, so it's very important to know what formula's are there and where they are.
I used FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336). It's layout matches the FE exam book so it's important to have both and review using them side by side.
Basis: I passed the FE last October on my first try.
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-Edition-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ ?
It’s like $10 on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620
"If engineering were easy, they would have sent a boy with a note."
Seriously there aren't any shortcuts. Either you learn the fundamentals or you don't. But if you want a really good general reference book, get The Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual
Other useful references:
In actual practice, unless we are launching things into space or making them fly through the air, a lot of engineering is just picking thinks that we know will work by experience (if a 1" square tube will work let's use a 2") or by consulting with vendors.
These two books are great
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061992860/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1885071620/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1
A couple of recommendations:
First, there are the classic Forrest Mims books they are the quintessential beginner level books. Radio Shack used to sell them. They are very introductory and tend to be rather brief for easy consumption. I'm not a huge fan of the style personally but others LOVE them a lot. Many many many hobbyists and engineers got their start with these books.
Another option I like a lot is Practical Electronics for Inventors, 3rd Ed. by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk. This book is a great beginners book that will take you nicely into circuit theory and things like that. Not as advanced as an academic tome but advanced enough for you to learn a good amount and establish a solid foundation.
Lastly, there is the very advanced Art of Electronics 3rd Ed. by Horowitz and Hill. This is the classic introductory text for engineers and hobbyists alike. It is very math heavy but you will have a very very good understanding of what's going on.
One non-book recommendation is the AllAboutCircuits online textbook tutorial. It is pretty well enumerated and detailed, though it is a bit lacking in sample problems. A great free resource that you can start learning now.
Beyond this, once you get a solid foundation. You can start focusing in specific areas like digital, power, precision measurements, etc.
I'm taking E&M now and we're using Griffiths. I'm not totally for sure, but I think it's the standard text for E&M.
Eu encontrei um livro tão interessante nesses últimos dias:
https://www.amazon.com.br/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047/ref=sr_1_1
É um guia para "reconstruir a civilização" em caso de cataclisma. Desde que começou aquela moda de zumbis, essa questão me deixou pensando, mas nunca encontrei material adequado sobre o assunto
que tratasse tanto de sobrevivência prática como sobre como refazer uma sociedade funcional[edit: nope, trata mais de como coletar e produzir o mínimo de conforto, a civilização parece ser considerada consequência disso pelo autor.] Até pensei em fazer um tópico aqui para discussão. Esse tipo de assunto não é tão "viagem" como muita gente pode pensar, pois desastres naturais e fim de civilizações acontecem desde sempre, o nosso período atual é que é anormalmente pacífico. Nos nossos tempos, futuro do meio ambiente promete insegurança, os países desenvolvidos estão sendo tomados por políticos fascistas, e, aqui, no Brasil, o contrato social está por um fio, ameaçado pela desigualdade e o apartheid social. Acho que todo mundo devia ler um pouco sobre o assunto.Se você estiver como eu, latindo no quintal para economizar cachorro, pode encontrar o livro no libgen.io
For your particular case I highly recommend the textbook Visual Complex Analysis. Helped bring the "math talk" down to earth for me at least.
A wonderful source for those that want to know questions better: Naive Lie Theory by John Stillwell
(Google excerpts)
This book is a wonderful read and it jumps into quaternions very early on. It really helps one learn about them and other spaces. Is also a remarkably Easy to access book on Lie Theory — (basic calculus, linear algebra only real read. Having seen group theory before is nice, but not necessary)
I’m about half way through and just love it.
Also, somewhat related, Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham is a ridiculously good and powerful book.
(Google excerpts)
Anyone that has to interact with complex numbers should read at least the first two chapters in my opinion.
tl;dr: you need to learn proofs to read most math books, but if nothing else there's a book at the bottom of this post that you can probably dive into with nothing beyond basic calculus skills.
Are you proficient in reading and writing proofs?
If you aren't, this is the single biggest skill that you need to learn (and, strangely, a skill that gets almost no attention in school unless you seek it out as an undergraduate). There are books devoted to developing this skill—How to Prove It is one.
After you've learned about proof (or while you're still learning about it), you can cut your teeth on some basic real analysis. Basic Elements of Real Analysis by Protter is a book that I'm familiar with, but there are tons of others. Ask around.
You don't have to start with analysis; you could start with algebra (Algebra and Geometry by Beardon is a nice little book I stumbled upon) or discrete (sorry, don't know any books to recommend), or something else. Topology probably requires at least a little familiarity with analysis, though.
The other thing to realize is that math books at upper-level undergraduate and beyond are usually terse and leave a lot to the reader (Rudin is famous for this). You should expect to have to sit down with pencil and paper and fill in gaps in explanations and proofs in order to keep up. This is in contrast to high-school/freshman/sophomore-style books like Stewart's Calculus where everything is spelled out on glossy pages with color pictures (and where proofs are mostly absent).
And just because: Visual Complex Analysis is a really great book. Complex numbers, functions and calculus with complex numbers, connections to geometry, non-Euclidean geometry, and more. Lots of explanation, and you don't really need to know how to do proofs.
I like this book.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0198534469/
Yes, yes. Here we have a case of snarky grammar nazis being right. Screw up your grammar, screw up your meaning. Go away from this a wiser person, mass922, and read your Strunk & White. Surely, you'll think it as cool as I (do).
$11 and 105 pages. You can't go wrong with Strunk and White. http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/0205313426/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-8666223-0915007?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182042293&sr=8-1
I minored in technical communication, and the books we used in the writing-oriented classes were Technical Report Writing Today, Handbook of Technical Writing, and Elements of Style (Strunk and White).
Of these, the handbook and Elements are more rule-oriented and don't really get into the details of putting together a document. I'd recommend something like Technical Report Writing Today, though. It talks about identifying your audience, different styles, visual features, visual aids, presentations, instructions, informal reports, formal reports, feasibility reports, proposals, user manuals. It doesn't get into a whole lot of depth, but it provides enough information to get you started in a whole bunch of areas.
There are many reasons:
tl;dr: Working with liquid hydrogen is actually pretty awful. (We'd use kerosene if we could find it on Mars, but CH4 is manufacturable in situ.)
Source: I had to double check lots of this stuff with my copy of Sutton and Biblarz. The inert gas layer thing for the tanks is actually me paraphrasing one of my former professors though; it's not in the book from what I can tell.
If you're willing to do a fair amount of reading and math, the obvious approach would be to dig into the rocket equation, the vis-viva equation, and Kepler's third law. More generally, an intro to orbital mechanics can give you lots of cool tools.
I'm partial to Fundamentals of Astrodynamics if you want a physical textbook.
Some people like this book: Art of Electronics
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
It's not synth-specific, but definitely get yourself a copy of Horowitz and Hill's textbook "The Art of Electronics". I've yet to meet a synth-head or electrician lacking one. This'll tell you all about op-amps, fundamental building blocks of filters, oscillators, and other complex elements, and even power electronics if you're interested in power supply design. (No exaggeration, it starts and Ohm's law and ends with complex filters, PLLs, and how to program your new discrete-digital computer in assembly.) Again, not synth-specific, but the book explores how all of these things may be used in application. This'll help you develop intuition to break down complex synth diagrams and how exponential converters work, for example.
I haven't picked up a copy, but I've heard nothing but good things about The Art of Electronics. Apparently it's very design-oriented and light on the math rape.
Pretty expensive, but finding a pdf may be possible.
This book used to be/still is what people swear by.
This should NOT be the first book you buy and open, it is too intense to start with. However, it should be something you look at in your quest to understand it all.
The Art of Electronics
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 1-3, W. Richard Stevens.
The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition, Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill.
Gravitation, Charles W. Misner, John Archibald Wheeler, and Kip Thorne.
https://contextualelectronics.com/ by /u/Chris_Gammell
https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-1-basic-circuit-mitx-6-002-1x-0
https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-2-amplification-mitx-6-002-2x-0
https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-3-applications-mitx-6-002-3x-0
https://www.edx.org/course/embedded-systems-shape-the-world-microcontroller-inputoutput
The Art of Electronics https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/
Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0521177235/
Build a couple of kits from Velleman. Buy an Arduino and play with it. Pick out one of these books and follow it in your lab. Purchase a copy of Practical Electronics for Inventors.
Electrosmash has some great analysis articles on some classic pedals. They get into different components and design choices in exacting detail. If you don't know anything at all about electronics, a lot of stuff will be a mysterious (what's an op amp??) until you read about a specific part (oh, it's a miniature integrated circuit with some transistors that lets you amplify a signal using a fixed gain set by some resistors). But seeing the parts in context will give you an idea what they're doing. A lot of electronics guides focus on on the abstract mathematical relationships between components, which are important but don't give you the "what's this do" information you might be looking for. Practical electronics for inventors is a good book that covers fundamentals with common examples.
Hey buddy!
I'm a college senior studying computer engineering (the hardware side of computer science). I'm about to hook you up.
For the circuits and electronic components. This book is so good we used it for two of my classes. Oh and it is relatively cheap. It also explains the physics in a really approachable way.
You are going to need to learn to program in C, This game is free and is a great place to start!!
You are also going to need a good, cheap source of electronic components. Mouser is what I use.
In short here is your checklist!
I was thinking about using Designing Analog Chips by Hans Camenzind along with The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz as a guide for projects to do. I also recognize its important to know to design digital electronics (even though it may not necessarily be my strength) and know how to do research if I do end up doing the PhD so I was also looking into these books: link 1, link 2, and link 3. Are there any other books I should look into?
While it looks kind of scary by its size and thickness I like The Art of Electronics (https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524591686&sr=8-1&keywords=the+art+of+electronics&dpID=51oDPY4SbfL&preST=_SX198_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch) with its lab companion volume (https://www.amazon.ca/Learning-Art-Electronics-Hands-Course/dp/0521177235/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1524591686&sr=8-2&keywords=the+art+of+electronics&dpID=51DvCTSt%252BeL&preST=_SX198_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch).
Amazon have April 30th 2015. http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/
Check any bearings for slop. Threading would be a nightmare, but could likely be done seeing as how he has the gears for auto-feed. Harbor Freight's got this little guy
and get yourself a Machinery Handbook
You sir are a man in need of a Machinery's Handbook.
You look in the Machinery's Handbook. Previous versions can be found.
Machinery's Handbook, Toolbox Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0831130911/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_QoQUCbWJWC3CN
This one is good but a bit expensive. It gives VERY detailed dimensions of the geometry of screws and what not.
This is more of a refrence than a teach you how.
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/1426203853
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned-global-warming
>tl;dr recommend me a book
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/1426203853/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
're riding the GI bill andcan probably go to an expensive private institution like Embry-Riddle (barf), but I urge you to instead choose a university that will make you happy as a person, located in a city that has lots of fun stuff to do.Here's a previous comment of mine that I've posted a few times for people with CBT FE questions:
I took the Electrical/Computer FE in early Feb. I believe the key to studying for the new CBT FE is to use the FE exam specifications for your discipline as a study guide. The focus of the CBT FE is significantly different than the old paper-based FE. In the old version, the morning session was a very broad assessment of the fundamentals of engineering and the afternoon session was dedicated to your discipline. The CBT FE is tailored to your discipline, both the morning and afternoon sections, and goes deeper into your discipline topics than the previous exam. I used the FE Review Manual, which is based on the old exam, for the majority of my studying. The old exam was more breadth than depth, so that book doesn't cover everything that you may encounter. I pulled out my old textbooks to fill in any gaps. Because the CBT FE is still pretty new, I doubt there are any updated review books out there yet.
NCEES has a series of youtube videos that describe the experience, which is very close to what I saw on exam day. Expect to leave the test feeling like you failed, it's meant to be difficult.
The 'reusable writing pad' is a little annoying because the pen writes much thicker than a pencil. But other than that, I don't think you'll notice much difference between taking the CBT and any other paper-based exam.
The reference material is a searchable PDF that displays on half the screen. Download the reference manual from NCEES ahead of time and get familiar with what is and isn't included.
You'll do the first 55 questions then review and submit them. After you submit them, you won't be able to revisit them again. Then you have the option to take a 25-min lunch break before starting the next 55 questions. I ended with about 20 minutes remaining.
My basic strategy: Easy questions first, then the ones inside my concentration area, then the ones outside. You'll usually know in the first 30 seconds or so whether you know enough to answer the question (being familiar with what's in the reference manual helps with this).
There is an option to flag questions for review. But when you get to the end of the section it'll also tell you which questions have not been answered. So don't use it whenever you skip a question. Use it to tell yourself that you're not confident in the answer you've selected so you can return to it if you have time.
Hope that helps.
torrent this: http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376785342&sr=8-1&keywords=fe+review
and just make sure you are familiar with formula book
You've demonstrated you don't know how an electrical load works, which is similar in DC and AC, based on your comments. Get through something like this before you tackle anything AC.
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336
You can cause damage with DC stuff, but usually you'll pop ICs or other discrete components before anything too terrible happens. Mess around with AC and get it wrong and you've started a house fire or electrocuted yourself.
A book that gets mentioned a lot is Shigley's. It covers the basics of design for a wide variety of mechanical components including gears, shafts, bearings, etc. It also covers stuff like material stress, fatigue, and failure theory. I don't know what you're printing or what is it for, but this should help for anything that's not too complicated.
I don't know if complex analysis is your cup of tea but Visual Complex Analysis by Needham is probably the best math book I've bought in a long time.
> what's supposed to be nice about a math book is that the author distills the content down to the bare essentials with nothing necessary omitted and nothing unnecessary included (this makes time spent reading the book and doing problems from it fulfilling and efficient)
I disagree. That's what's nice about math. What's nice about a math book is that it teaches you math. If you're taking lectures and seminars at a university and discussing the subject with other students then a minimal, rigorous and terse textbook maybe just what you need. However, if you're learning math as a hobby in your spare time and on your own, a book that gives copious examples, and motivates the subject from many angles, is much more useful.
Visual complex analysis is a shining example of this kind of writing http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198534469/103-9283683-9227825?v=glance&n=283155
The Lively Art of Writing is absolutely amazing. It's enjoyable to read and the techniques can really help you write well. It gave me a great understanding of how to write a persuasive essay.
After that, Elements of Style is also an excellent reference on the finer points of writing, and can help you clear up some confusions you have.
I'd recommend working through The Lively Art of Writing first, just to put some practice and thought into how to communicate effectively. The second book is more for polish, but nevertheless still very good.
Maybe try applied math programs. Some of them seem to have astrophysics faculty https://www.princeton.edu/gradschool/about/catalog/fields/applied_mathematics/. You'll probably have an easier time getting in with your background and can take the math GREs. In a physics BS you would at least have the knowledge of these books:
http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Mechanics-John-R-Taylor/dp/189138922X,
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-4th-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396384599&sr=1-1&keywords=griffiths,
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-David-Griffiths/dp/0131118927/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396384599&sr=1-2&keywords=griffiths,
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Thermal-Physics-Daniel-Schroeder/dp/0201380277/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396384625&sr=1-1&keywords=schroeder+statistical+physics.
The more you know from those books, the better. Although an applied math program, probably wouldn't expect you to have read all of them. Also try x-posting to /r/askacademia. I'm sure someone there could be more helpful.
John Taylor's Classical Mechanics and David Griffith's Introduction to Electrodynamics might be more your speed. They've been the texts for my Classical Mechanics and E&M courses.
This should keep you busy, but I can suggest books in other areas if you want.
Math books:
Algebra: http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-I-M-Gelfand/dp/0817636773/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251516690&sr=8
Calc: http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/0914098918/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1356152827&sr=1-1&keywords=spivak+calculus
Calc: http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Dover-Books-Mathematics/dp/048663518X
Linear algebra: http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Modern-Introduction-CD-ROM/dp/0534998453/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255703167&sr=8-4
Linear algebra: http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Dover-Mathematics-ebook/dp/B00A73IXRC/ref=zg_bs_158739011_2
Beginning physics:
http://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-boxed-set/dp/0465023827
Advanced stuff, if you make it through the beginning books:
E&M: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-Edition-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375653392&sr=8-1&keywords=griffiths+electrodynamics
Mechanics: http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Dynamics-Particles-Systems-Thornton/dp/0534408966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375653415&sr=8-1&keywords=marion+thornton
Quantum: http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Quantum-Mechanics-2nd-Edition/dp/0306447908/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375653438&sr=8-1&keywords=shankar
Cosmology -- these are both low level and low math, and you can probably handle them now:
http://www.amazon.com/Spacetime-Physics-Edwin-F-Taylor/dp/0716723271
http://www.amazon.com/The-First-Three-Minutes-Universe/dp/0465024378/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356155850&sr=8-1&keywords=the+first+three+minutes
The textbook Introduction to Electrodynamics is a fantastic book. We used it for a couple of our E&M courses. See if you can find a pdf online of it somewhere and have a look through it. The previous edition (3rd) is also fantastic, if you can find it online as a pdf or on the cheap somewhere.
Understanding vector fields very well was key, in my experience.
You're a saint. I spent the last hour trying all sorts of searches on Amazon.
EDIT: Thanks to Snarkfish's link, I have found the 4th edition to be the exact one I was talking about.
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-Edition-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1G7383GCV3SVJBDZ0E1W
Pocket Ref 4th Edition
For Calculus:
Calculus Early Transcendentals by James Stewart
^ Link to Amazon
Khan Academy Calculus Youtube Playlist
For Physics:
Introductory Physics by Giancoli
^ Link to Amazon
Crash Course Physics Youtube Playlist
Here are additional reading materials when you're a bit farther along:
Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary Boas
Modern Physics by Randy Harris
Classical Mechanics by John Taylor
Introduction to Electrodynamics by Griffiths
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by Griffiths
Introduction to Particle Physics by Griffiths
The Feynman Lectures
With most of these you will be able to find PDFs of the book and the solutions. Otherwise if you prefer hardcopies you can get them on Amazon. I used to be adigital guy but have switched to physical copies because they are easier to reference in my opinion. Let me know if this helps and if you need more.
Griffiths is the go-to for advanced undergraduate level texts, so you might consider his Introduction to Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to Particle Physics. I used Townsend's A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics to teach myself and I thought that was a pretty good book.
I'm not sure if you mean special or general relativity. For special, /u/Ragall's suggestion of Taylor is good but is aimed an more of an intermediate undergraduate; still worth checking out I think. I've heard Taylor (different Taylor) and Wheeler's Spacetime Physics is good but I don't know much more about it. For general relativity, I think Hartle's Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity and Carroll's Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity are what you want to look for. Hartle is slightly lower level but both are close. Carroll is probably better if you want one book and want a bit more of the math.
Online resources are improving, and you might find luck in opencourseware type websites. I'm not too knowledgeable in these, and I think books, while expensive, are a great investment if you are planning to spend a long time in the field.
One note: teaching yourself is great, but a grad program will be concerned if it doesn't show up on a transcript. This being said, the big four in US institutions are Classical Mechanics, E&M, Thermodynamics/Stat Mech, and QM. You should have all four but you can sometimes get away with three. Expectations of other courses vary by school, which is why programs don't always expect things like GR, fluid mechanics, etc.
I hope that helps!
>Self as illusion is a central view in Buddhism, for example. I know Sam Harris has studied Eastern religions, so why not just admit that some religions, at least, have something to offer?
Here is an old essay by him on the subject of Buddhism having things to offer: Killing The Buddha - Sam Harris, Shambhala Sun
Also, speaking on the matter of the self being an illusion, Thomas Metzinger's Self-model theory is pretty interesting. There are several lectures on youtube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFjY1fAcESs
FullFrontalNoodly guessed that you're trying to calculate a trajectory of a rocket launch. I'm going to assume he's right, but for the record, this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion-Elements-George-Sutton/dp/0470080248
is a great resource if you want to learn about rocket performance.
This book is filled with the equations and explanations you are looking for:
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics
These were the 3 I picked up.
This one seems to be the most popular, probably because of it's publication timeframe, 1971. Not too early, not too late.
This is an earlier textbook and is considered a classic at this point. Still useful.
While less popular (and more expensive), I found this one to be my favorite. Hard to say why, some combination of layout, examples, and teaching style. The fact that it was also published in my lifetime, unlike the other 2, might have something to do with it as well in terms of language, etc.
But take /u/The_Mother_of_Robots advice and don't do it. This is a
slippery slopethick atmosphere in a deep gravity well. There is no Lagrange point, just the abyss.For those wondering how you might go about doing this yourself, you have a few choices. Knowing a language useful for modeling can help. Even if it's "just" Python.
NORAD maintains a two-line element set database that is refreshed daily. What is a two-line element set, or TLE? Back in the 1960s, when punch cards were still used as a primary storage device for computational data, a format was needed for easily storing the orbital elements of a space object (typically a satellite, but it can be anything in orbit, for instance rocket booster debris). The orbital elements are mostly the same as what you're used to seeing in KSP, but there are a few additional ones that are required for accurately* computing the propagation of the orbiting object in real life. A TLE looks like this:
COSMOS 2463 [+]
1 36519U 10017A 18293.58648576 .00000043 00000-0 30755-4 0 9996
2 36519 82.9602 143.9870 0035918 330.7244 29.1897 13.71429387424689
The first line contains mostly metadata, the second mostly orbital elements and some additional information you'll need. The TLE's orbital elements are the following:
Now, the first and last two are not technically your classic orbital elements but we need the first to get an idea of when the data is applicable and the last one comes in handy for objects in the LEO which are subject to significant atmospheric drag compared to say, something in a geostat or geosync orbit that is so high up that drag is not as much of a factor.
Putting these together is the more difficult part. For a classical treatment of the subject, I started with Fundamentals of Astrodynamics by Bate, Mueller and White. This is the older USAF Academy book and is interesting not only because it teaches how to compute a satellite propagation, but it gives you an idea of the strategic position of the USA during the cold war. A significant portion of the book deals with how an ICBM works. Since it is, after all, a space vehicle.
If you want to get deeper into it, you then want to read something like Vallado's Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications which will get into more detail.
Robert Braeunig's website gives a good summary of how all of this goes together, with information derived primarily from the first book I linked, although I will caution that the solutions discussed are not all numerically stable in the format in which they appear. There are many, many different ways to compute the solutions to a satellite propagation using the orbital elements.
If you don't want to spend a few weeks trying to do this yourself (and it will take you that long, unless you're an absolute savant at this), fear not. David Vallado has written code that will do the orbital element calculation along with SGP4 routines for you. What is SGP4? Remember that the Earth is not spherical and there's that other large Moon thing that also orbits the Earth. This means that we can't really model a satellite's orbit like you do in KSP if you want an accurate solution. So, we have to include those perturbations in the final calculuation, which is what the code linked here will do.
As far as I can tell, the popular stuffin.space website uses a ported version of the above code, available in javascript here. The other link I gave gives versions that will work in FORTRAN, C, C++ and MATLAB (because you just can't make it in modern Engineering if you can't do MATLAB. And you'll have to do MATLAB or you will not make it through the course).
This should all get you started. I hate to admit it but I never would have taught myself all of this, nor would my personal bookshelves be as heavy as they are, if it weren't for KSP.
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. Thomas Metzinger.
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Brain. Michael Gazzaniga (neuroscientist)
Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience. Gregg Caruso and Owen Flanagan, Eds. (Part 3: Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Meaning in Life has 6 essays by Derk Pereboom, Caruso, Gazzaniga, and others, and other essays scattered throughout the book are also pertinent)
Read "The Ego Tunnel" by Thomas Metzinger.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind/dp/0465020690
Then read "Being No One" by Thomas Metzinger.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/being-no-one
The Ego Tunnel is a pretty easy to digest book on the subject matter, Being No One is a pretty heavy book (literally) with lots of complicated formulations that might be very difficult to comprehend without at least some education about the concepts discussed, in it he discusses the self-model theory of subjectivity. Being No One is standard reading for any student of philosophy of the mind.
Study cognitive science.
Metzinger is a German philosopher of the mind and pretty much the leading export on these issues.
Just found a .pdf of Being No One:
http://skepdic.ru/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BeingNoOne-SelfModelTheoryOfSubjectivity-Metzinger.pdf
It's $12.45 on Amazon Prime.
Assuming an average dorm room ~12x19 feet and height of 8' (thanks google, despite silly american units), thats about 952 square feet of surface area. Measuring the Fundamentals of Astrodynamics book it's about 8.5" x 5.3", about 45 square inches.
You could cover all the walls, floor and ceiling of a dorm with 3044 books, which would cost about $37,900.
There's no message here, I just liked imagining plastering an entire room with this book.
For those that want a great physical book, i'm sure many will agree, The Art of Electronics is a must have.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210174245&sr=8-5
if you look hard enough, you can find a pdf
As an electronics engingeer, purchase a copy of "The art of electronics"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0521370957/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1321710457&sr=8-1
This book, although expensive, covers almost everything you would learn pursuing a degree in electrical or electronics engineering. Its a great bench reference book when you need it.
The trick is find an area of electronics that interest you. The Arduino is a great place to start.
Arduino is a great learning tool and to go from idea to finished project is quite fast. I definitely recommend starting with arduino and see if you like it. If you continue, you'll find that you have to purchase an arduino for each project you start, which can get quite expensive, or you'll be ripping apart old projects to get the arduino.
I purchased arduino and a few shields, but I felt like I really didn't know how everything was working electronically. I really enjoy programming, learning about electronics and making devices, so I decided to stop using arduino and just use the atmega microcontroller, which is the MCU that arduino is based on.
If you wanted to go this route then I would suggest buying an AVR ISP mkii programmer and downloading atmel studio. It's much easier to program the chips than any other method I've tried. Less fiddling. If you have experience in C programming then it will be really easy.
This is the best beginners tutorial I've found for atmel AVR:
https://www.newbiehack.com/
This book is an excellent follow up to that tutorial:
http://www.amazon.ca/Make-Programming-Learning-Software-Hardware/dp/1449355781/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398472387&sr=8-1&keywords=make+avr+programming
A good book on electronics - 1000 pages:
http://www.amazon.ca/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336
digikey.ca or .com has lots of parts and next day shipping for $8.
how to make an arduino on a bread board:
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Standalone
Breadboard, Schematic and PCB layout software
http://fritzing.org
Soon you'll be etching PCBs at home
The Make books for electronics will get you a decent groundwork for the practical application side of things. Practical Electronics for Inventors will you get you covered on the theory side of things.
Good old Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design
What level do you want it pitched at? The Wikipedia article is pretty good, and there's always Griffiths Electrodynamics.
Maybe [this book](
http://www.amazon.com/The-Knowledge-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047) would help?
This is a really good book you might like! It goes from the basics, like finding food and building shelter, to essentially rebuilding most of civilization! Its really good. https://www.amazon.ca/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
David Griffiths' textbooks on E&M and quantum mechanics were easily the best textbooks I had as an undergrad. Clear, concise, refreshingly informal, and even a dash of humor.
I recommend Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics.
You will find it difficult to escape vector calculus in understanding electromagnetics, but Griffiths begins with a quite clear refresher of what you need to know. He continues into electrostatics and magnetostatics, then to electrodynamics, EM waves and radiation, and finishes with relativistic electrodynamics. He also has an informal, conversational style. The text suffers a bit from putting necessary concepts in the exercises, some of which can be quite difficult.
The Amazon reviews will say much more than I have - also look at the reviews for the 3rd edition (which I have, and which has been out for longer).
I highly recommend David Griffith's Introduction to Electrodynamics. It is a classic undergraduate text in electrodynamics. His style is a bit wordy, but I feel it complements all of the mathematics well. It begins with a good overview of vector calculus which is necessary to do college level E&M, so the text is manageable even if you haven't been exposed to calc 3 yet.
Okay, I think i may have came across a great source for those who want to learn more about video.
Video Tutorials
Also some books I would suggest for those who are at least somewhat knowledgeable of electronics:
Active Filter Cookbook
CMOS Cookbook
Art of Electronics
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I would also highly recommend brushing up on your math, if you want to build more advanced electronics. It's not impossible to learn, just take your time.
Embedded Systems: Introduction to Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers , Fifth Edition (Volume 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1477508996/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_lEcJBbGEZ1DE5
Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0128000562/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_aFcJBb49BEQFE
The Art of Electronics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_AFcJBb6P452VQ
https://www.publishing.umich.edu/publications/ee/
Troubleshooting Analog Circuits (EDN Series for Design Engineers) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0750694998/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_MGcJBbHN2BD9G
Should help your for microcontrollers
It sounds like you're ready for The Art of Electronics.
http://smile.amazon.com/dp/0521809266
Third Edition
The Art of electronics is a pretty good overview.
I've included Amazon links as I could find them. The three reference guides I have are:
I also think reference books for the FE and PE exams would be helpful.
OK, the first and most important book by a mile is The Machinery's Handbook
This is the standard reference for all things machining. You cannot live without this book. It is pricy, but it is worth its weight in gold.
The next is any of the Audel books - like this one
What you're looking for is hobbyist electronics more than engineering. I'd suggest checking out a hackerspace like Pumping Station One. They're sort of community workshops that allow you to use their equipment and attend more informal classes/events.
If you'd like some books that are a good starting point I recommend Make Electronics and Practical Electronics for Inventors
Almost done with the program, if you want to just pass course 101 then you only need https://quizlet.com/BMET101 (EDITED: wrong link previously)
and
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtz1snimkmSqHtOzvTGIup-qqxy_TmTXV
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if you want a more in-depth understanding then I would recommend something like
Getting started in electronics by Forrest Mims
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/electrical-engineering (up to Electrostatics section)
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541/
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> Basically that things aren't great, but they aren't catastrophic either, and that we actually are kind of on the right path, or at least a path good enough that we'd 'only' heat the planet up another 2-3deg in the next 50 years instead of the near fatal ~8deg statistics I've seen. We could be doing a much better job as a species, but we'll still be OK.
There's a book on global warming, Six degrees. It has six chapters, one for each degree of warming. There's no need for a seventh chapter because there won't be any humans left in that scenario. According to the book, if we exceed +3°C, industrial agriculture will collapse (more or less quickly, depending on the region), and billions will starve.
We're currently on the trajectory for a warming of roughly +3.4°C. I imagine that the despair that comes with the early consequences will push down this path down to something like +2.8°C. Still, the lives of roughly five billion people are very insecure on that path. That's apocaplyptic enough for me.
I used this book: http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336
I started studying 2 months before the test. I did one chapter a day which takes anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on how well you know the material. After I finished that book I used the free 3 day trial of their chemical engineering specific book to brush up on that material.
I ended up passing and probably overstudied considering I took it one week after graduation when the material was still fresh.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620
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That formula is correct.
Let me pick up my copy of Pocket Ref...
SAE J429 Grade 5 #10 bolt torqued to 4.04 ft-lbf produces a clamp force of 1,275 lbf.
Digital Calipers are really cool to own.
There's that book POCKET REF which is interesting, it has all sorts of information in it, lots of specific reference tables and whatnot.
If he likes to make his own projects, a gift card or shopping spree on adafruit might be cool, you could help him get set up with kit for a new project that he otherwise wouldn't do.
If you're best friends, why not do something cool together? Spend a day at the museum (maybe there's an air and space one near you), go on a wilderness adventure, stuff like that. Experiences and memories often last longer than gifts.
A really nice pen or pencil perhaps - many people like Rotring I think - you can check out /r/edc for some pretty examples. The brass and titanium machined models are extremely nice looking.
There are also some very cool rubik's cube like puzzles if he's interested in mechanical things that would make good desk ornaments - like the mirror cube or the ghost cube.
I like my leatherman style PS as an everday multitool. It doesnt have a knife so I can carry it in schools, government buildings, on planes, etc. and I've found it extremely useful. It's also the first thing I grab when I take apart something I shouldn't be on my desk.
You could also get him a high-end fidget spinner. Again, /r/edc has many different nic-nacs that they like to play with.
Are you looking for an engineering handbook?
Pocket Ref 4th Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1885071620/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_tGCDDbYETA767
There are no modern versions. There is something kind of similar though... Pocket Ref (https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620)
If you're a tinkering type, this reference book is amazing. Every millwright/machinist/DIY guy I know owns a copy.
Pocket Reference book? https://www.amazon.com/dp/1885071620/
> have survival manuals in electronic form.
Everyone should have a copy of Glover's Pocket Ref somewhere handy.
In terms of general knowledge, the pocket ref is also useful.
Griffiths has a book on it
David Griffiths,
Introduction to Elementary Particles
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Elementary-Particles-David-Griffiths/dp/3527406018
Wow, I'm seeing a lot of "I studied the reference manual the night before" comments. I think I may be the only one who studied for the damn thing!
I'd say go ahead and study still. You are paying $100 and will commit a day to an 8 hr test, and you do not want to go through that process more than once. I'll go ahead an assume you are civil, where pass rate is 72% overall and 68% for those that choose the other section. You don't want to be the 30% that has to take it again.
You may have heard this already, but what you'll need three things:
$76 The FE Review Manual. This is the review text nearly everyone uses to study for the test. It covers every subject, works out the problems, and has a practice exam. I'd strategize by looking through the book and working on what you feel you are weak in.
$24 NCEES FE Reference Manual or free download here. This is a the book they will provide you during the test. It has many formulas. It's important that you study with this beside you so you are familiar with the layout and organization of the book. You'll be flipping through it during that test. Now, I noticed that this book really has everything you need, and can even deduce a few things without having studied.
$14-$25 Calculator of your choice, it's restricted so here's a list . I used the Ti-36X Pro because I am more familiar with Ti's and the learning curve was better. Study with the calculator beside you and only the calculator you will take with you to the exam. How to do inverse sin? How to do matrices (oh yeah, these calculators will find determinate, solve systems, and so many other things for you, you just have to find out how).
Apart from that, find videos on youtube for topics you are having difficulty in.
There you have it, my two cents. You will hear often that it is an easy test, but I've heard that from people that have failed the test too (Yeah, trust me I question their train of thought). You are taking an admirable initiative in choosing to study for this test. Good luck and best wishes!
I took and passed the FE exam this past April. Honestly the best way to prepare for the exam is to a.) be familiar with the reference handbook and b.) review most (not necessarily all) the subjects on the exam by doing practice questions from the FE Review Manual (it's the one everyone uses.)
I studied for a solid 3 weeks reading the review manual and had the reference manual by my side. It helps to know how the reference handbook is organized so that when you take the actual exam you don't have to keep flipping to the index.
Oh and get a TI36X PRO. It can solve derivatives, integrals, matrices, and a crapload of other things.
TL:DR Study the FE Review Manual by Lindeburg, know the reference handbook like the back of your hand, learn how to use your calculator.
This is the study guide I used. It's pretty good.
One other piece of advice though, study what you know. Most of the material on the test is stuff that you should already know. Don't focus on learning new material. Your time is better spent on reviewing material that you might be rusty on to prevent mistakes on the test.
Go through every chapter and the complete the problems and practice tests of this book:
FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, 3rd Ed
After a month of doing that, I actually finished an hour early on the first half of the exam. I miscalculated the time.
This one:
Pocket Ref 4th Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1885071620/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_heUGxbH8056F7
I have it. I've never had to use it but I figure it is good to have around.
It is very much facts and figures in tabular form. It won't tell you about world history or how Princess Diana died etc. Very different from Wikipedia.
To add to this:
Ultrafire Cree XML T6 LED Zoomable 5 Mode Flashlight Torch Lamp Zoom (Black)
Micro Sport Cord 1.18mm X 125 Ft Small Spool Lightweight Braided Cord
4pc Medium Size / MEDICAL ALERT - FIRST AID container PILL CASE Set - Key Chain - Water Resistant
resqme The Original Keychain Car Escape Tool, Made in USA (Blue)
Zak Tool Universal Handcuff Key Ring Holder Belt Clip (Various Models)
Gerber 22-41770 Artifact Pocket Keychain Tool
Pocket Ref 4th Edition [Paperback]
One book? I don't think you'll find that all in one book. Some to consider:
Just short of $10 - Pocket Ref
if he's a reader, this is a cool, 'manly', handy book to have. My fiance specifically requested this for christmas a few years ago. it's got nearly everything in the damn thing! http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321885571&sr=1-1 - it's actually pocket sized (though a little thick) and fits nicely in camp packs or work bags.
ummm...if you've got a local paintball course you could buy him a session (unless he already goes so frequently that it wouldn't really be 'special' for you to buy him one, kwim?)... orrrrr..... some new accessories related to paintballing or off-roading. that doesn't help much, i know. lol.
I had to scan down to see if anyone had mentioned this. Quite possibly the most comprehensive and portable reference manual on the planet!
I have 3 copies. One in my toolbox, one in my car and one in my work desk.
Here's the Amazon link. Or, pick one up at Home Depot or Lowe's.
It contains, just as examples, astronomy, chemistry, carpentry, physics, mathematical formulas, maps, conversion tables, electronics, first aid, how to make glues, solvents stains and finishes. It has info about mining, mills, knot tying and how to's on surveying and plumbing. (That's about 40 pages of this 800+ page book.)
I find this book to be very useful. It isn't all knowing but it has a lot of information on everything.
Amazon
Definitely worth the weight. It's rather small anyways. Jam packed with all sorts of information.
Here's a buyable link
Buy a copy of Pocket Ref
Griffiths' particle physics book is a great intro imo and one of the few (possibly the only one?) that approaches the subject without requiring qft as a prerequisite.
My number 1 recommended reading is Griffith's introduction to particle physics. If you have done undergraduate level physics, you'll be familiar with his E&M and quantum mechanics textbooks, which are well known for being relatively painless introductions to these two subjects. The book is written at such a level so that you could start understanding particle physics with only basic physics knowledge (although knowing some qualitative facts about quantum mechanics may help).
Try learning calculus-based intro physics here. If you're feeling ambitious you probably can jump into the relativity course there, which will have a few things related to particle physics. To keep yourself motivated you might want to read the first three chapters of Griffiths particle physics.
Hm... I would have to say Griffiths' particle physics book and Halzen and Martin begin to cover the transition between undergrad-level knowledge and the general area I work in. Although for what I actually work on, I don't know if there are any textbooks. It's a pretty niche field.
I don't know of any decent online particle physics resources. But there are two good books at the undergraduate level I can think of Griffiths and Halzen and Martin
For superconductivity you want to learn many body quantum mechanics, ie non-relativistic quantum field theory. The most common recommendation is Fetter and Walecka, but I might consider Thouless to be superior on account of it being 1/3rd the length and probably only covers core topics. If you feel like dropping a lot of money, Mahan is very good, but also somewhat exhaustive. Might be worth having as a reference depending on how serious you get. I would get F&W and Thouless simply on account of how cheap they are.
I bought the official kit a few months ago and I finished all the projects.
Its an good kit. It got me started but I really wanted more in depth explanations.
Another great resource is Sparkfun. They sell kits which are very well documented and provide lots of other information
> code things into real life seems like a blast
It is! :-) And it's so easy compared to starting with a bare microcontroller.
> 0 experience whe nit comes to working with hardware
Kits usually explain a bit about resistors and such, but I'd strongly recommend to also pick up a beginner electronics book. These are simple and fun to read! :-)
 
> sensors and motors and stuff
> laserpointer
Laser modules cost $0.15 or so at Aliexpress, Servos $1... Everything is so inexpensive it's great to build all sorts of crazy machines ;-)
 
> What arduino
Most guides and books will probably talk about the UNO. You can get a compatible board for around $3, but a Nano also works in the same fashion and sits nicely on a breadboard.
For the UNO, you have all sorts of modules/shields, but there's nothing you can't hook up to one of the smaller boards.
Also order an ESP8266 based board, like the $3 Nodemcu or D1 Mini. The ESP8266 has wifi built in and can run stand-alone, as it's a microcontroller with more memory as the UNO/Nano :-) But it's 3.3v, has only one analog input, and it's a bit more work when starting out.
 
> What
You could get a kit if you would like all sorts of sensors and modules.
The Chinese starter kits are super cheap ($22 with UNO compatible, $26 with MEGA). As Aliexpress links often trigger the spam filter, search for 1207150873 or 32543887265.
The differences are subtle, some kits lack the ultrasonic sensor (<=$1), etc.
What's also a LOT of fun is a 2wd robot car kit, you can get them for $15 or so. Two geared motors, dual H-Bridge, put an Arduino + Ultrasonic sensor on it, and with ten lines of code, it will be an obstacle avoiding car or line follower ;-)
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These kits usually don't have great instructions. If that's what you want, get the official Arduino starter kit, or something from Sparkfun, Adafruit etc.
The Arduino site, instructables, and all kind of blogs have examples for almost every module/sensor/device you can find :-) Find a good guide, such as t
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The only down-side when going with the compatible Arduino boards: You will have to install a different driver manually (oh noes).
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If you don't have one already: A soldering iron.
I know, when starting, soldering sucks. You want to do everything on a breadboard, reservable. But I found out way too late how great and time saving soldering is once you use a decent soldering iron ;-) Most will recommend something like FX888D or better, but a $15-$20 adjustable soldering station can work as well for the occasional soldering job. And there's a soldering comic :-)
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A multimeter is a must-have as well. $3 ones work for simple resistance and voltage readings. For high voltage / high current tasks, they might burst into flames and double as fire-starter, ideal in the cold winter time.
Part testers for $15 can be neat, they identify parts (is this a NPN or PNP transistor... or something else?).
Cheap regulated $20 power supplies can be nice as well.
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Edit: Bunch of capacitors, resistors, transistors (Bags of 100-500 for $1-$2 via ebay), and whatever sensors you need ;-)
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Sorry for the long post :-) It's always difficult to tell how much experience and equipment someone already has.
Scherz - Practical Electronics for Inventors
I have the second edition and keep it at my desk for stuff. It's awesome.
Read read read and experiment!
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336 is one of my favorite books that explains in great detail the workings of components, without getting overly mathematical. (Math is critical in understanding the behavior, however.)
Then get a basic scope/dmm (or get access to a lab) and build circuits to exercise your knowledge. It won’t work on the first couple tries, but google is your friend, and thats when the learning really materializes — when you understand why something didn’t work, and when you understand how to fix it.
Youtube is a great reference too. Here are some channels I’m subscribed to. Good luck!
https://www.youtube.com/user/w2aew
https://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo
https://www.youtube.com/user/LearnEngineeringTeam
https://www.youtube.com/user/sutty6
https://www.youtube.com/user/msadaghd
https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog
White noise posting here.
Obviously not everything in there...but both do a really good job at pointing out not only typical circuits + intuition, but also on what common configurations of passives do and what they are used for. Sometimes you can look at some circuit and there are three or four resistors/caps/inductors that don't seem to do anything but touch the ground rail...figuring out what those do is very handy as well, and those links to a good job at helping you sort that out.
I threw myself in at the deep end. The first thing I built was a basic 4 bit CPU out of TTL logic. Took 4 years to get it working in 1983. No regrets doing it. Looks like you've picked an interesting project though.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071771336/
This is a good book that covers just about everything you need to know including theory, construction, part selection etc. I'd give that a good read or at least scan the relevant sections before jumping in. Expect to spend a month or so on it (no joke - this is a big subject!) It's pretty cheap for the size of it (8x10" and about 2.5" thick) and the information is really nice. There are some math heavy bits but you can work through these easily enough. Some people will recommend The Art of Electronics but controversially I'm not much of a fan.
Breadboards are dicks as a rule. Some of the time they're ok, some of the time they're not. They have various side effects on some classes of circuits and some higher frequencies. If you're going to buy one I'd buy a good one. 3M make the best ones but they're damn expensive. Wisher make the next best ones. The rest are pretty crap to be honest and are probably a liability. If you're doing high frequency stuff i.e. RF or anything, sometimes it's just better to solder the stuff "dead bug" style mid-air over a PCB blank when prototyping.
Any questions, just ask :)
The guys over at www.circuitlab.com are building a really awesome, free, in-browser schematic drawing tool and simulator.
Practical Electronics for Inventors is also a good mix of theory and telling you what you need to know to make things blink.
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0073398209/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_j2lvDb8VCN7D4
I believe this is what you need
I took this test (well, I took the paper one, so YMMV). Get the MERM, along with the practice problems/solutions by the same publisher. Get the NCEES practice exam. Get an old edition of Shigley's. Get a thermo book for the tables. Get some sort of HVAC book, and learn how to read those ASHRAE charts.
I went through the MERM, marking useful pages with flags. After each chapter, I went through the sample questions, and flagged the pages in my references that had useful info. The weekend before the test, I barricaded myself in my office to do the practice exam, exam-style; with proper timing and breaks.
Don't forget snacks and earplugs. If the snacks are crinkly, repackage them into a sandwich bag.
I used Griffiths for my upper level Electro & Magnetostatics class.
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-3rd-David-Griffiths/dp/013805326X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1314035153&amp;sr=8-1
Also I know the university I'm at uses the Griffiths book for Quantum Mechanics, however I have not taken the class.
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-David-Griffiths/dp/0131118927/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1314035153&amp;sr=8-2
Disclaimer: I am a math major.
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
This book is Amazing, and works hard to get the reader to understand many of the many technologies that make our world function, and has guides on how to short-cut our way through technologies to be able to use the most impressive tools we have now.
There is some amazing stuff in here, like how to build a wood gassifying engine to run motors, and other really great stuff. Plus, if people look at you funny, you can just tell them you're just reading it for the science or whatever.
You'd probably enjoy this book: "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm"
"The Knowledge: How to Rebuild the Civilization in the Aftermath of the Cataclysm" explains most of that, and then some. You can buy it in Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
Lewis Dartnell's The Knowledge probably has a lot of what you're looking for. Everything from water filtration systems to weaving clothes to building an arc furnace and more.
I can also recommend this one
Pick up the book Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham. You can probably find a free copy online, but this one is, I assure you, worth every penny. Not only is it the most intuitive book on complex analysis ever written in my opinion; it is probably among the very best mathematical books in general.
Let me put it this way. I happened upon that book in high school and was so captivated that I read it cover to cover. Upon entering college, my understanding of the subject was so strong and intuitive I could jump into graduate-level complex analysis with little to no difficulty.
Complex analysis, my friend. If you can understand even the basics intuitively it can smooth out a lot of the higher classes. I like Needham's Visual Complex Analysis but I've been told it's not a good introduction. I'm not really sure what would be, but you might want to look at Introductory Complex Analysis by Silverman (Dover books are cheap and awesome).
Graph theory certainly wouldn't be too bad either. It's actually pretty fun and has applications in programming and algorithms. Dover publishes this book which I expect would be excellent to read at work (pretty basic, moves slowly). Same goes for linear algebra if you can find a book on it (look for one with "matrix analysis" in the title).
Learning advanced set theory or category theory will probably not be useful at all. (*ducks*).
Neither of those is the complex plane. The first is 3-dimensional in the real manifold sense and the latter is 4-dimensional.
It seems that you are confused about what the complex plane is, so I would suggest that you read Needham's Visual Complex Analysis. It's a very gentle introduction to complex analysis that also conveys very good visual intuition for what is going on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_transformation
https://www.math.tamu.edu/~stecher/LinearAlgebraPdfFiles/chapterThree.pdf
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra/matrix-transformations/linear-transformations/v/linear-transformations
A linear time-invariant circuit system is a linear system. You can represent it as a linear matrix - which is what SPICE does to solve circuits: V = Z I or I = Z^(-1) V.
An affine transform is merely a form of linear matrix transformation that has particular constraints on its elements that cause it to be "affine". Without more information this makes no sense to do on a circuit but maybe there's a case I don't know about.
There are issues with general circuit representation in this form so systems like SPICE do NOT use these in this form but in a combined matrix form (so you can have zero or infinite values of V or I or Z without blowing things up).
A really, really amazing book on linear transformations and how they tie to complex math is Tristan Needham's Visual Complex Analysis.
If you've ever been fascinated by circuit theory with regards to linear algebra, Fourier transforms, Euler's Identity, Stability Analysis, etc., and wanted to understand the underlying math better, this is the book to read. It's easy to read but has plenty of rigor. Also highly relevant to graphics transformations used in GPUs.
Saff and Snider is great for applied complex analysis. In my opinion it strikes a perfect balance between accessibility and rigor for a first course on the subject.
Visual Complex Analysis is another good choice, but it might be a little more advanced than what you're interested in.
The first half of Lang might also be a good choice, but Lang takes a slightly more formal, proof-based approach.
I've also skimmed through Brown and Churchill, which looks quite good but is prohibitively expensive.
Finally, you can find many cheap (~$10) books on the subject by Dover. The only one I've looked at is Knopp, which is quite formal and light on computation, but might be a good supplement. Here's another Dover book with outstanding Amazon reviews.
Complex analysis is both very elegant and very useful. Best of luck with your class!
Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson.
A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory by Silverman.
Visual Complex Analysis by Needham.
First, congratulations on having written something. Many of us end up thinking about ideas and never taking the time to get them down. My critique is rather heavy in tone, but I want to be clear: that doesn't mean your piece is without merit. Keep writing.
I think you can safely call the piece fiction.
Your grammar is generally fine. That's based on a quick read-through. Your best friend here is a copy of The Elements of Style.
"An" instead of "a" in the last sentence, paragraph six. That sentence is also a rather long, clunky fragment. I don't mind fragments, especially if they have a certain punch to them. This fragment does not. Avoid it and others like it.
The only other grammatical change I'd recommend is in paragraph five: "They would've to do..." While "would" and "have" do combine to make that contraction, it feels out of place with the infinitive "to do." Instead, try, "They'd have to do..."
It's difficult to critique something both unfinished and this brief. I will say that the opening is generic and uninteresting. It strikes that unpleasant balance of being unimaginative and over-reaching. Your idea, when you start writing about it, is more engaging. Would you consider shaving the first few paragraphs down to one or two? Alternatively, you could open with a very short (I'm talking 1-2 sentence) exposition on the technology.
I hope that is helpful.
thanks Strunk and White
Hey, good luck on this! I made the opposite swap: studied physics as an undergraduate, then studied mathematics in grad school. I'm now a professor in a math department, though I still do some (mildly) physics-related work. Since nobody else has answered yet, I'll say what I can:
The amazon page also suggests a quantum book and a mechanics book; those seem pretty reasonable choices as well. With respect to the math, the background for doing physics research is quite different from what most math majors get. Physicists do a lot of PDEs, ODEs, calculus of variations, and differential geometry. This is pretty serious stuff.
I would say start with Griffiths Electrodynamics, and maybe a calc book, then go from there.
Griffith's EM book is one the undergrad classics. His book was designed for physics majors mainly but the basics are the same regardless of the major.
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-Edition-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562
If you prefer books, the standard University book on the topic is David J. Griffiths "Introduction to Electrodynamics", which also takes you through vectors and vector calculus. Very readable. As it is probably one of the most widely used books it should be easy to find used for almost no money.
I'm assuming you're looking for things geared toward a layman audience, and not textbooks. Here's a few of my personal favorites:
Sagan
Cosmos: You probably know what this is. If not, it is at once a history of science, an overview of the major paradigms of scientific investigation (with some considerable detail), and a discussion of the role of science in the development of human society and the role of humanity in the larger cosmos.
Pale Blue Dot: Similar themes, but with a more specifically astronomical focus.
Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth: Dawkins steers (mostly) clear of religious talk here, and sticks to what he really does best: lays out the ideas behind evolution in a manner that is easily digestible, but also highly detailed with a plethora of real-world evidence, and convincing to anyone with even a modicum of willingness to listen.
Hofstadter
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: It seems like I find myself recommending this book at least once a month, but it really does deserve it. It not only lays out an excruciatingly complex argument (Godel's Incompleteness Theorem) in as accessible a way as can be imagined, and explores its consequences in mathematics, computer science, and neuroscience, but is also probably the most entertainingly and clearly written work of non-fiction I've ever encountered.
Feynman
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: It's everything. Probably the most detailed discussion of physics concepts that you'll find on this list.
Burke
Connections: Not exactly what you were asking for, but I love it, so you might too. James Burke traces the history of a dozen or so modern inventions, from ancient times all the way up to the present. Focuses on the unpredictability of technological advancement, and how new developments in one area often unlock advancements in a seemingly separate discipline. There is also a documentary series that goes along with it, which I'd probably recommend over the book. James Burke is a tremendously charismatic narrator and it's one of the best few documentary series I've ever watched. It's available semi-officially on Youtube.
Try Pale Blue Dot. It's where that quote I posted up above came from. For a non-science person, the writing can be a bit dense at times, but it's workable for the most part. Even if it's still too dense, the book is filled with high-resolution pictures of space, so it's still decent if read as nothing but a picture book.
Yes you can. $11.56 and worth every penny. Check out Pale Blue Dot by Sagan as well. Here is an audiobook sample of Pale Blue Dot, read by Carl himself.
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger
https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind-Myth/dp/0465020690
There's actually a strain of philosophy of mind and neuroscience dealing with this question right now:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind/dp/0465020690
is a good example. While you might feel like "yourself" has a unifying central intelligence, and it is most certainly true from a subjective personal standpoint, analysis of the actual neural substrates and cognitive processes that generate of that sense of selfhood shows that it might actually be a very powerful illusion.
Good summary.
I'd add one more point, related to this quote. I've encountered this in another piece of fiction, and the author actually credited this in part to Metzinger's book called The Ego Tunnel. I'm guessing there's other works that touch on this too. Anyway, the gist is that the conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain—an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is "a virtual self in a virtual reality." But this isn't philosophy not informed by science; Metzinger draws on a whole lot of studies and experiments into human cognition. Worth checking out, although it's a big honking work.
Currently reading, and would like to finish:
Started in 2014, put down, would like to finish in 2015:
Would like to re-read in 2015:
Would like to read in 2015:
In that case, the general bible for rocketry is Rocket Propulsion Elements, and it's the best place to start working these things out. https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion-Elements-George-Sutton/dp/0470080248
A book I like a lot is Orbital Mechanics by Prussing and Conway
There's Fundamentals of Astrodynamics by Bates, Mueller and White. This Dover book is inexpensive.
I did a coloring book on conic sections and orbital mechanics. Mostly Kepler stuff and a little Newton. No Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation in this edition.
Okay, for sci-fi, you have to get The Culture series in. Put Player of Games face out.
I don't read a lot of space books, but Asteroid Hunter by Carrie Nugent is awesome. I mostly have recommendations for spaceflight and spaceflight history, and a lot of these come from listeners to my podcast, so all credit to them.
Not sure what your mathematical background is, but Fundamentals of Astrodynamics is a highly popular introductory textbook for $18.
Not sure if you've played then, but haven't: Kerbal Space Program is the best way to get an intuitive understanding of orbital mechanics. If you like to play God you should also try the Universe Sandbox, and if you want a really really hardcore space sim you should play (or wait, it's still in alpha) for Rogue System.
As for actual books, OpenStax recently published their free astronomy book, and it's quite good for an introduction. From there, it depends entirely on what you're interested in, there's literally a universe's worth of information about
Astrophysics,
Astrochemistry,
Astrobiology,
Astrometry and
Orbital mechanics (for the aspiring galactic navigator),
Cosmology,
Planetary geology and
Cosmochemistry (careful, these last two lead to geology and meteorology which are equally disastrously addictive fields!)
Also, feel free to follow NASA's, ESA's, and JAXA's blogs. And spend a minute each morning checking the astronomy picture of the day.
Just don't end up llike me and annoy all your friends.
This is a great introductory source.
If you want to get more in depth, then you might want to start looking at books about lagrangian mechanics or Engineering textbooks.
Ah! I remember that.
There was a gold and a silver version. Striped lettering.
Found it:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill is one of the classic texts to learn electronics.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
That will help with electronic circuits. For basic passive networks, any book on linear electrical circuits would be ok.
Get yourself a copy of The Art of Electronics: by Horowitz & Hill.
https://imgur.com/a/8bLY4pw
and
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
It is a good text; I think you can answer your own question just by looking at the table of contents, which you can find here:
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https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
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These chapters describe the building blocks of basically any modern circuit - although you probably won't be able to assemble your own microprocessor from scratch by reading this text since that would require a lot of knowledge of CMOS production techniques.
Start reading here.
Pick a project, try it, break it, learn from it, then do it again.
Also, if you need a reference, The Art of Electronics is the bible of electronics.
Save your money and get this. I think it's admirable that you're trying to learn electronics through building something, but just adding a random capacitor to an amp is going to do more harm than good. Caps can carry a charge too and can zap you if you're not careful. So please be careful and study a little before experimenting things which can cause you bodily harm. When you've learned a little bit, ditch the computer power supplies and build/buy a power supply specifically for audio applications. diyaudio.com specifically has a section for power supply design.
The Art of Electronics
The Art of Electronics Student Manual
The Arcade Manual Archive
PINBALL MACHINE MANUALS
This one isn't cheap, but: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1279561376&amp;sr=8-1
It's A to Z how analog and digital electronics work. It builds the knowledge intelligently, without skipping steps, and even gives you the math you need to engineer the circuit.
Edited to add: under $20 for a used comb-bound version. I retract my "not cheap" and change it to "not free"
> Lotfi Zadeh in his 1965 paper which I am looking at right now, specifically used the term 'binary fuzzy relations' and not 'boolean logic' to describe the reduction of full fuzzy logic to the two-value case.
Uh huh.
What a reasonable person would get from that is "he must be talking about something else."
What you got from that is "I just looked at one paper with a different title. That must mean you're talking about this other thing and you're wrong!"
Stop being stupid, please. Binary fuzzy relations and boolean fuzzy logic are different things.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel2%2F1022%2F7759%2F00327527.pdf%3Farnumber%3D327527&amp;authDecision=-203
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/979737741-43493136/content~db=all~content=a713811231
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200117/000020011701A0530818.php
This is the part where you pretend that even though you found one paper with a different title and pretended that was evidence I was wrong, now that I've found three other much more modern papers involving that title, suddenly paper titles don't matter.
> to describe the reduction of full fuzzy logic to the two-value case.
That's not what boolean fuzzy logic is, though.
> Since he's the one defining the field
Maybe you didn't know this, but there are a lot of other people working in this field than the one guy you know about, and one paper from 1965 doesn't mean that in the 45 years since, nobody's come up with anything else.
> try not to lecture me about right and wrong.
Tu quoque, clown.
> And binary logic has been a term used in electrical engineering for a very long time for two-state logic.
No, it hasn't. EEs have to implement this difference at the chip level. Basically all CPUs support both bitwise and boolean logic at the instruction level.
You're just making shit up to sound correct. You cannot cite even one EE textbook making this mistake.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
Page 61. So sorry. Maybe you can find an EE book making this mistake, since I just showed you arguably the canonical intro to EE text, and gave you the specific page number on which that book says you are not correct?
No, of course not. Because you don't actually own any EE books and don't have any way to check.
For all your talk of lectures about right and wrong, citations are brutal. Try one some time; you might be more effective as a result.
You'll need to know basic analog electronics first, and then apply it to learning about logic gates. Otherwise you'll have trouble understanding things like totem poll versus open collector or open drain, why you need pull-up resistors, why there are limits to fan outs, and why unconnected CMOS inputs can make the chip cook.
The Art of Electronics will cover practically everything you need for your project including analog circuits, digital circuits, logic and even MCU's. I've yet to meet an electronics person that didn't have a copy. If your mathematics isn't strong you'll love it, and if your mathematics is strong it'll build your intuition.
this book was kinda like the engineering bible when I was in school. Explains things in an easy to understand manner:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426750522&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=the+art+of+electronics
Try 'Practical Electronics for Inventors' by 'Paul Scherz'. This book is awesome. It is quite cheap too.
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541
You can also try 'The Art of Electronics'. Its 3rd edition was released a year back I think. It has an informal style, so, I suppose you'll like it.
https://www.amazon.com/d/cka/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/0521809266
This site is also good.
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
Div Grad Curl and all that
The Art of Electronics
These aren't websites, but The Art of Electronics and its companion Learning the Art of Electronics are often referred to as learning resources, for good reason.
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There are of course web sites that teach you electronics, but not on the level these two books, imho. If you don't want to buy books, then I'd recommend you to go watch bigclivedotcom and EEVblog, they have some great content. There are lots of other YT channels with similar content.
Here are several textbooks on the subject which I used back in the day and still have a proud spot on my bookshelf:
Acoustics by Beranek (classic acoustical engineering theory from an MIT professor)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/088318494X
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill (for low level lessons on circuit components like DACs and op amps)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/
Introduction To Electroacoustics and Audio Amplifier Design by Leach (more theory by a professor) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0757572863/
JBL Audio Engineering for Sound Reinforcement (practical applications) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GQZQ8UE/
One of the better online resources for getting from zero to basic understanding is the Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series.
http://www.fcctests.com/neets/Neets.htm
For something with more rigor and much more depth. one could do worse than "The Art of Electronics" by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill. But that might not be basic enough for some.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/
Specifically, http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1453081730&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=art+of+electronics
The Machinery's Handbook. A bit expensive but very practical. Older editions are cheaper and pretty much just as good.
I also like the idea of good quality safety glasses (ANSI Z87.x), but would recommend safety shoes over safety boots. If you are the type of engineer who is mostly at a desk and occasionally goes down to the shop floor, your feet will thank you. There are many kinds that are "office appropriate" but still have the full safety certification.
There are TONS of extremely useful references out there, so many in fact that you will probably end up collecting more and more if you stay in the trade. for a start though, here's the shortlist of what you should probably have on hand:
The Machinists Handbook - A must have, doesn't matter what version they all pretty much have the same info - https://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-Toolbox-Erik-Oberg/dp/0831130911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1492269975&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+machinist+handbook
Technology of Machine Tools - this is the main text that i use in the precision machining technology course that i'm currently taking; it is a hell of a reference - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0073510831/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1
Blue Print Reading - If you are not well versed in drafting/design, then pick up a copy of this as well as you will find it very useful - https://www.amazon.com/Blueprint-Reading-Machine-Russell-Schultz/dp/0132172208/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=0132172208&amp;pd_rd_r=AE88BSK23EA606Z0QTCR&amp;pd_rd_w=CxgNZ&amp;pd_rd_wg=FWPUL&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=AE88BSK23EA606Z0QTCR
I really like this book.
Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259587541/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_7BfADb7106476
Practical Electronics for Inventors is really good. Very accessible, but still comprehensive and as the name implies, practical. Best of all it is 20 bucks.
Maybe something like this?
http://vetco.net/products/300-in-one-experimenter-kit
I'd also recommend the following books:
Practical Electronics for Inventors:
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1259587541
Make: Electronics:
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1680450263
Make: More Electronics:
www.amazon.com/dp/1449344046
Personally I love Practical Electronics for Inventors. It is massive and covers the basics as well as so many different subdisciplines that you can pursue. Also to my surprise it is only $20.
But more practical advice would be to research your university’s EE course path and read through the course syllabi. Find out what topics are covered in the core/required courses. See what electives you think you’d be interested in. Consider buying 1st edition (cheaper) versions of one or two or more of the textbooks that are used in those courses.
This one is also good. I've gone through both of them.
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541
I would recommend Practical Electronics for Inventors. This book is awesome for all electronic concepts. Plenty of examples and working problems. Here’s a link on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=electronics+book&amp;qid=1567720843&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1
The transistor acts like a switch, when the GPIO pin goes up (current applied to base), the transistor opens and high current flows between collector and emitter. If you are interested in understanding and learning more, I can recommend you a book (it helped me A LOT): Practical Electronics for Inventors. It explains this and much more in words that most would understand
and doesn't go into the math or formulas that explains how it works. You'll learn to use IC, transistor, diodes, to create your own schematics, etc.There was some book I bought a while back that I thought was good as a basic reference, forget what it was called though. I think it was this one
Might be worthwhile picking up a copy since it's only 20 bucks.
Edit: Also, I learned most of what I did out of sheer necessity - as in I wanted to build something that required hardware and I incrementally learned what I needed to get it built. Doesn't provide the most solid foundation, but I always found hands-on to be the fastest way to learn things especially when supplemented with actual reading material
>very good book to get up to speed on hardware.
Yes, with analog cirquits, transistors and op amps. Sure you can build gates with transistors. But why should they buy a book with 1100 pages if they only need about 250? EDIT: and with no mention of any HDL or FPGAs at all; if the software engineers were really that much interested in general practical electronic cirquit design including digital and Verilog programmable logic then I would rather recommend this book: Practical Electronics for Inventors by Scherz and Monk.
Get yourself a minor in mechanical (or possibly even seismic if your school offers it). Opens up anything dealing with transducers or how sound waves behave in a medium within a space.
Maybe pick yourself up a copy of Modern Recording Techniques to get a feel for what's going on hardware wise in the field. If you want to do more with the actual acoustics side of it, then grab Master Handbook of Acoustics. As a former EE major (I split before I graduated), I've also found Practical Electronics for Inventors handy to have around, even if only as a quick reference for things. Even has some theoretical refreshers in there if memory serves me correct.
If you find that you want to get into working with instrument amplification, then I'd recommend picking up Ultimate Bench Warrior since, to my understanding, tube circuits aren't really dealt with at the university level anymore.
Hope at least something in here is helpful.
Hey there! Welcome to the hobby!
For reading, I recommend Practical Electronics for the Inventor. If you're brand new and want something a bit less dense, the Make series is a good place to start.
The box you've got looks a lot like a component kit a friend of mine gave me. He tried the electronics program at ITT before they went under and this is what they gave him. It's got some nice stuff in it and it's great for a beginner.
Now, you want to know what's in there? Google is your best friend. Everything has an identifying code on the side. Punch that into the search bar and 90 percent of the time you'll find everything you need to know about it. It's tedious, but it's the way of things.
Good luck and have fun!
I can't give you numbers, although others have made such attempts. There is a book available called Six Degrees that attempts to describe the impacts of climate change over 100 years at different levels (1 degree C change; 2 degree C change; etc.). It has numbers, although I can't suggest how accurate they are (those kinds of numerical forecasting exercises are virtually impossible to do with accuracy in complex systems).
Another pop-science but seemingly sound exploration of likely effects (and current conditions) is Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Friedman. It definitely has a "position," but it is a good qualitative place to start if you want an entryway into global environmental change dynamics.
I'm a climate change natalist - I recognize that civilization is over and humanity might be too. Our grandkids won't have electricity and may not have agriculture. Our great-gradkids may not have enough oxygen. Anyways given the coming crash I had a kid that I'm raising to make it through the bottleneck with good wholesome values intact. I'm raising her competent and co-operative.
If you're feeling down about working retail you should read this book. It's about the expected results of each degree of climate warming. It's 10 years old. The changes predicted here are actually mild compared to the changes we've seen, suggesting that we may be on track for a 4° warmer world (mass extinction, complete desertion of the mid-latitudes, the amazon first burning then drying to a desert, human fight toward the poles, endemic drought throughout asia, most crop-land blowing away as dust). Capitalism can't survive that!!
Climate change is a matter of degrees, literally, and the big unknown is at what point do we really start to suffer negative consequences.
Scientists and world leaders so far have a consensus that 2 degrees Celsius is safe. Some scientists say it should be even lower, but that's what most of the negotiations are assuming. 3-4 degrees Celsius is likely what's going to happen unless we make some real aggressive moves soon, which will most likely exacerbate some of the things we see already, which are sea level rises, ocean acidification (leading to fish extinctions), melting of the ice caps and glaciers, and weather changes (drought, desertification, melting tundra). 6 degrees is where most people think we're headed if we can't get our act together and there are a whole bunch of hypotheses about what may happen then: http://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/1426203853 . Of course, then there's always the risk of runaway climate change, where we reach a point where warming begets more warming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_climate_change and we eventually end up like Venus, although that particular outcome is still up for debate.
So to your point, is this all a futile exercise? I'm not sure we can hit 2 degrees, honestly, at this point. But if we hit 3, the earth our grand children (speaking as someone without kids yet) will live most of their lives in will most likely be similar to the one we live in and the one our parents live in. If we let it get to 5 or 6, then all bets are off. You might be right that they'll come up with some kind of Manhattan project to solve it, but there's no guarantee.
The FE review might not be a bad place to hit everything.
Chemical Discipline-Specific Review for the FE/EIT Exam, 2nd Ed
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591260671/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fhOozb4CKG20Q
FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, 3rd Ed
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591263336/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_GhOozbR5VP0K0
"The Art of Electronics" is a good option. They approach circuit design from a practical standpoint.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
The Art of Electronics - The EE bible
ARRL Handbook - Great for analog and RF circuit knowledge, but tons of general stuff too.
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic - For hands on, real world circuit diagnosis. I've been doing this a long time and I still learned a lot from this book. This book will save you a lot of magic smoke.
Okay, you're definitely at the beginning. I'll clarify a few things and then recommend some resources.
I feel like I've gone off on a few tangents, but just ask for clarification if you want. I'd be happy to point you towards other resources.
If you really want to learn electronics I recommend the book "The Art of Electronics" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456842742&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=art+of+electronics)
I know it's a bit pricey but it's the most complete book i have read and also very easy to follow. It's magnitudes better than any school litterature I have used.
I still use it as a reference in my work as a electronics engineer.
Coax publications! Their books are decent, I wouldn't say the best, but decent. I'm 2/3rds the way through studying for my Advanced as well and I've found it very helpful. Nice thing with their books is access to a practice exam site that got me through my Basic Qualification exam.
Full disclosure I have a computer engineering degree and have a pretty strong background in electronics as well, so I'm able to fill in some gaps. I've found a couple of errors or gaps in the edition I'm studying from. So I'd possibly recommend some supplementary material. Good book for electronics if that's the area you're struggling with is The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill: https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1542256671&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=art+of+electronics
Beyond that study and good luck! I'm hoping to take my test early 2019. Been distracted with getting my HF station up and running.
OK, you seem like you are trying to learn, and are asking questions, that is a good thing, and even if someone cringes at your terms, that's OK, you have gotten some good links for the terms and how to use them. Don't be put off.
Now I am going to recommend you see if you can get The Art of Electronics 3rd ed and Learning The Art of Electronics, get the ones with the gold covers. They are expensive, but you will learn huge amounts by working through the Learning book. When I was teaching college labs, I would recommend students get these books (2nd ed at the time). You can find all this information online, and you can learn it that way, but these books are excellent and well worth the cost if you can pull it together.
A humbucking pickup is vital if you use a lot of amplifier gain, because otherwise your sound will be drowned in noise. In every other respect, the tonal character of a humbucker can be exactly matched by a single-coil pickup by tweaking the resistance, inductance and capacitance. You don't even need to use a traditional pickup design - Lace Sensors and Fishman Fluence pickups achieve traditional single-coil and humbucker tones using a radically different approach.
You should ignore the vast majority of what you hear about "tone". Only a tiny handful of guitarists know enough about engineering to understand guitars, amps and effects. The guitar world is full of superstition and rumour, because people are trying to discuss moderately complex engineering issues without the necessary knowledge to make sense of it.
If you really want to understand how a guitar works, I recommend the book Technology of the Guitar by Richard Mark French. You'll need little more than high school math to understand it. For amps and pedals, The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill covers everything you need to know.
Failing that, keep in mind two things. Firstly, trust your ears and experiment - if it sounds right, it is right. Many of the greats of guitar have done very weird things. Brian May made his guitar out of plywood and bits of scrap oak. Dave Davies accidentally invented heavy metal by slashing his speaker with a razor blade. EVH's legendary frankenstrat is a grotesque mess built from b-grade parts, but Fender sell a custom shop replica for $25,000.
Secondly, ignore dogma. American guitar factories don't have a secret pixie dust that makes their guitars better than Korean or Chinese guitars. Wood doesn't magically sound better if it was sawn up in the 1950s. Don't take anything a guitarist says as gospel, because they're probably just repeating something they heard.
It's difficult to tell without seeing it, but "Learning the Art of Electronics" looks like a book to accompany "The Art of Electronics". If you're a beginner, The Art of Electronics might be a bit overwhelming. My recommendation as an absolute starting point is Getting Started in Electronics by Forest M. Mimms. It's old and used to be sold at Tandy, but it gives a really quick and simply overview of the basics, and you can get the 3rd edition here for free:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5jcnBPSPWQyaTU1OW5NbVJQNW8/edit
If you're still interested after reading Getting Started, it's probably appropriate to move on to either The Art of Electronics http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=0H11CKC3J5KJMF8BHHA8
or the much cheaper Practical Electronics for Inventors (as mentioned elsewhere - 4th edition is out in April)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1452851192&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=practical+electronics+for+inventors
$108 Pre-Order at Amazon.
I think it is dependent on the field. For several areas in experimental astronomy you deal with extremely large datasets. Advanced statistical methods and 'machine learning' can be very valuable tools. Whereas for someone studying solid state experiment this would be a waste of time. Better time would be spent on learning the physical hardware and electronics and noise (I think, never done solid state myself). Although you would be surprised, I knew someone who was using neural networks for a project involving solid state and transitions.
As a whole, compared with theorists, you may want to develop a better understanding of statistics, computing/programming, electronics, hardware, and several fields I'm not thinking of. However which of those are most applicable depends on the work you are doing. Although a solid foundation in statistics is most likely useful for all scientists.
To add a text, The Art of Electronics is practically an experimental bible for many people.
Changes in the 3rd edition.
$80 on Amazon.
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/ This might be a good place to get started, I am taking a physics electronics advanced lab as an undergraduate in physics, and I have found this textbook to be pretty useful. Also Hororwitz's the art of electronics is probably the best text on electronics, however very dense (1200 pages). There is definately a lot to learn, and this is just getting you started in the electronics of it... idk specifically about tube amps though, but understand circuits is probably going to be a must
link to buy horowitz: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521809266/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687442&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0521370957&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=0PSJGQA7WTQYDCZ7632X
Art of Electronics, Horowitz & Hill
The Pocket Ref
Pocket Ref 4th Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1885071620/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vVwTBbBJ7HNPV
The Machinery's Handbook
Machinery's Handbook, 29th https://www.amazon.com/dp/083112900X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_sWwTBb3FHSVVZ
These two books will get you through about anything you run into.
http://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-29th-Erik-Oberg/dp/083112900X
Any edition would probably work for what you need. The newest looks to be this 29th edition, but I've got an older 24th that I've used in the past. Whatever you can find cheaper and better quality! If you can't find it at the library, i would seriously consider buying your own copy. For me, ever since getting into this trade, i cant seem to find enough time in the day to absorb (and retain!) all the information out there to improve my own ability around the shop!
What are you mostly running? manual machines or any CNC?
Its not all welding, but the machinest handbook is about the best refrence for everything mechanical you will run into.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/083112900X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1405115740&amp;sr=8-1&amp;pi=SY200_QL40
You can get a copy of Machinery's Handbook. It's got everything.
I shop at BoltDepot.com, and they have tons of reference material.
After reading your description, I finally remembered the black book by that title that people have recommended. Don't have it, but I've got several different machinist's handbooks, such as this one. I collect old editions (50s and 60s), and they all fit into the "handbook drawer" of Kennedy toolboxes.
The guide is pretty good considering that most of them suck. It contains like 10 small example projects, but won't teach you everything.
This is a good book to get eventually but you don't need it right away: Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259587541/ Its like a textbook for about $20 except it has a lot more practical how to info.
There are lots of tutorials online about using the RPi and Arduino, especially by Adafruit and sparkfun.
As a student, I can recommend "Practical Electronics For Inventors, Fourth Edition" by Paul Scherz, accompanied by the occasional youtube video and reddit question :)
You can buy it from Amazon here
I havent read any others, so I cant compare the quality, but you can go through it like a book and be able to understand everything. You may run into some problems in the real world that requires some fairly advanced calculus, which the book doesn't cover. (It does cover where to apply it, just not how). It is really extensive (1256 pages on my desktop e-reader), so if you have an idea for something specific you want to build, there might be something more efficient out there :)
I would think that not a lot of electronics books, if any, explain the math in full, so I would suggest that you find an online source for whatever specific piece of math you've run into. I can recommend Kahn academy.
Good luck :)
Good idea. I did an "electronics for scientists" class from the physics department when I was an undergrad. Can't remember what book we used, I think it was by a guy at Duke University maybe. It was a good starting point, covering LRC circuits, transistors, and opamps.
Edit: It's this book: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Electronics-Lloyd-R-Fortney/dp/0195178637/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469462772&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Fortney+electronics
Horowitz and Hill is a really good reference. I have another book on my reference shelf, I think it's this one: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469455654&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=electronics+for+inventors
Here is a great website with some circuits that are common building blocks of instrumentation:
http://www.ecircuitcenter.com/
(see "Circuit Collection" link).
Finally, Linear Technologies has a free version of Spice called LTSpice that you can use for circuit simulation on Windows (hope I'm not violating any rules on commercial stuff; I just happen to use it and like it). If you use Linux, there is a package called gEDA that has a schematic entry tool and a version of Spice. I haven't used the Spice tool yet from that package, but it's probably good.
There's a book called the Practical Inventors Guide to Electronics: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541/
I really liked Getting Started in Electronics by Forest Mims: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Electronics-Forrest-Mims/dp/0945053282/
I am in a similar boat like yourself and found the following useful.
He sounds a lot like me. I hate clutter. I would recommend this.
If he already knows all that, then this.
If he already knows all that, then he's set for life and you can probably just stop getting him gifts now.
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541
If you want to get a good overview of AC and DC beyond wiring circuit breakers and light switches.
As a ECE this book is awesome and only $20. Great practical as well as theoretical info. https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541
This book by Paul Scherz was recommended in one of these threads, and I've just started reading it.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1259587541
It seems to cover what you're looking for... a good overview of a large number of topics. It does get into some detail, but I like it so far.
Please pick up and read:
http://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/1426203853
Or watch it. Goodness... they made it into film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1224519/
The cool thing about this book is that the focus is on what we can tell happened at these temps at various points in the past. This doesn't give us a clear picture of the future. Indeed, the rate of change today is practically unprecedented. But this look into the past is rather illuminating.
4 degrees is BAD! As others have stated, it's not a simple thing of every part of the world just magically being 4 degrees warmer all the time. It won't be that uniform. There will be parts that get larger average temp increases than others.
There are simply far too many people who think they've stopped being Climate Change Deniers while remaining in incredible ignorance of the related facts. Getting more informed will address the confusion, if not necessarily the fear. I'm not trying to advocate anything here related to vegetarianism, tap water or whatever. It just will be more conducive overall the more people have a better grasp of the issues/data here.
Rent this book. Then try to do every problem in it. After your soul is crushed by how difficult the problems are and you've given up hope, take the test. You should pass it no problem. Also buy this handbook as it is the only reference material you will be allowed to have for the actual test.
I highly recommend this book for prep. I took the FE in October using this as a review and passed, after being out of school a couple of years. This book just covers the morning session. For the afternoon session I would just review your thermo, heat & mass, and design class notes. Also, thinking about buying the equation manual. It was super helpful knowing exactly where equations were while taking that test. They also have topic outlines for the exam on the NCEES webpage. I would also get the practice exam NCEES sells, that was really the only prep I did for the afternoon session. Keep in mind that the test is electronic now, not written, so review materials might vary.
Good luck! I'm sure you'll do great if you are just finishing school, because everything will still be fresh.
I forget the name of the book, but it's yellow. They have a great big one for the general part of the FE and they make smaller ones for the individual tests. I thought those were great study guides. Also, my university had a class to review the major subjects of the FE.
EDIT: General FE [book] (http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323889740&amp;sr=8-1)
Electrical Engineering book
This one was for the general stuff (but it still had fluids, heat transfer, econ, and some general thermo) and this one for the chemE. The chemE one I studied might have been an older version though. Both were filled with hard and useful practice problems.
As long as you don't let patent bar and FE prep get in the way of other important things, I don't suppose there's any reason not to do this. Everybody needs a hobby. But you should be aware that the odds of it leading to an actual job as a patent agent are very small.
The FE changed about a year ago to be a computer based test. It is only 6 hours long and there is no longer a general portion and discipline specific portion. The questions are entirely based on the discipline you select. I've been using the FERM to study and it seems ok. The author has been putting out disciple specific books just for the new test as he gets around to them. I'd suggest you spend the $160 to get the one for the test you are going to take. They do include chapters on things that the general book does not cover.
I'd also suggest not signing up for the test until you are about a month out from wanting to take it. People seem to reschedule their tests and as long as your schedule is a bit flexible, you can sign up relatively close to the test.
I had purchased this book to brush up on the general stuff since EE/CompE wasn't as versed in the general mechanics stuff. I liked it and passed. The Computer stuff seemed trivial in 2011.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591263336/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1
I can see if I still have it but I remember selling a bunch of stuff to half priced books a few years ago.
edit: Found it!
Seems like most of it is pseudo code and excel manipulation.
Part of it may just be picking up a language and sitting down and getting comfortable with it. I know from my friends who ended up not specializing in CompE they hated programming because they took fortran or something ancient so C/C++ is a little friendlier since it can be read more easily.
edit 2: I bought this book for $48 back in 2011 why is it worth $200 today?
here it is, highly recommend
I used a prep book from Amazon and instead of the 90 day study schedule I think I crammed it into just under 30. I did the general test for both parts, though I went through and looked at the questions in the second half and the material I knew/didn't know was about the same for general and mechanical.
I had to take it in school before graduating, and I passed, but haven't really needed it now that I'm working. Good thing for the resume though as some places look for it.
This Book covers the general section and also on the NCEES website they sell usually sell a small (25 sample questions I think) book for the individual afternoon sections if you were also curious on that.
If you can do the lindberg book you will ace the test. The questions tend to be at least the level of the FE, sometimes a lot more involved.
This is pretty great, especially for the price. It is sectioned off into multiple topics, but refers to the other sections as far as design is concerned. It does have some basics, but gets pretty complicated in some of the opamp sections.
I love this book. It covers a wide range of electronics design for practical use.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071771336/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_kOc4tb1KNM6BD
Thank you! I think I might buy Make: Electronics or Practical Electronics for Inventors just to have on hand as a quick reference manual.
I would do it, but with family obligations, I just don't have the time.
There are plenty of good tutorials on how to solder on YouTube. The gist of it is to heat up the components with the iron, then add solder. It just takes practice. And don't buy the cheap solder -- you'll get poor results even with the proper technique.
As far as electronics theory, I like this book as a basic reference.
When you get to building a tube amp, I would recommend modifying or refurbishing one before you go for a scratch build. Do you mean a tube hi-fi amp or a tube guitar/bass amp?
Electronics for Inventors after he's done Make: Electronics.
I remember doing 2 years of almost solid maths, thermodynamics and fluid dynamics, solids, materials etc. It was so uninspiring that I started teaching myself programming (C++) and playing around with 3d graphics (ah, good old days when Quake was the shit!)
I got good grades, but I was not a model student. So, although my 3rd and 4th year focused on 'mechatronic' subjects, I graduated not really knowing what a transistor was or how to solder anything. I was a decent programmer though.
Luckily, I got a job with a really patient, knowledgeable guy who helped me fill in the gaps. I coded stuff, but he explained how the hardware worked, I sometimes understood (or pretended, and when I couldn't figure it out later we went over it again).
I highly recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336
So here's what worked for me: (eventually :) )
So, as far as practical stuff goes:
Start basic.
Bonus
Get More Practical:
Bonus:
Old computer power supplies are great if you are on a budget.
If you want to learn about electronics, I'd suggest reading "Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Paul Scherz. Truly an excellent book. You can get nearly as much out of this as you would a four-year electrical engineering schooling, but it's written so that it's totally accessible if you don't want to go that far in depth.
+1 for recommending Practical Electronics for Inventors. I highly, highly, highly recommend this book. I am currently an electrical engineering grad student and I still reference this book from time to time when working through simple circuits, either for debugging or optimization.
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336
I suggest this book
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336
For books, try Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk
and Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest Mims
As far was websites go, SparkFun have some good tutorials.
I've heard great things about this book: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336
I very much recommend this book as a basic intro to electronics. There's no need to complicate this with analogy.
I bought this 'recommended additional reading' as a student and have since loaned it to several non-EE friends who have gotten a lot out of it as well.
I can recommend you a few things, speaking as a CS/EE double major :)
For electronics I started with this book: http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Charles-Platt/dp/0596153740/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369542421&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Make%3A+electronics
It has lots of cool experiments to get you started with concepts.
Then there's this: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369542421&amp;sr=8-10&amp;keywords=Make%3A+electronics
This will go much deeper into theory and give you a strong foundation.
Though if you want to delve right into the programming part: http://www.makershed.com/Getting_Started_with_Arduino_Kit_V3_0_p/msgsa.htm
and
http://www.makershed.com/Raspberry_Pi_Starter_Kit_Includes_Raspberry_Pi_p/msrpik.htm
MicroCenter will have the kits, and RadioShack should have the tinier parts, as well as the Raspberry Pi.
This might be a good start, Practical Electronics for Inventors:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071771336/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1
It's easier than you think. Grab this book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071771336/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1 you'll learn a lot.
Anyway, even if you learned some theory you will need to practice and practice, the more you practice the better you become.
There's a lot of tutorials online, you can learn a lot and fast.
I my self am a CS student, I design my own custom board using Cadsoft Eagle, etch it, solder it and so on...
Nothing is hard, you just need to practice. Just search a bit online and start with the easy and small tutorials.
Edit: Grab your self an Arduino Kit or buy a bunch of each component (Jameco, Digikey, Mouser, DX.com, Aliexpress.com, Sparkfun....) and the required tools (soldering iron, plier, breadboards.....)
Also, you can buy some unsoldered boards with their components and read the manual to learn more about circuits and soldering.
[Design of Machinery] (http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Resource-McGraw-Hill-Mechanical-Engineering/dp/007742171X)
Shigley's Design
As far as I can tell you sit in a room and look stuff up in this
The big one was Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design. All the NCEES test development is done at Clemson and living in SC, a lot of those professors teach prep classes. This one was recommended far and above any other textbook for Machine Design stuff.
I think, in total, I brought in the MERM (heavily marked and noted), the MERM problem guide, the two practice exams, the Machinery's Handbook, Shigley's book, the conversion guide, a couple of the guides given to me at the prep classes (which were mostly focused on HVAC and fluids as my weak points).
The most use came out of the MERM obviously, but there were some questions on the tests that were verbatim out of the problem sets. It was all the right amount of stuff to bring without getting too bogged down in the materials (like the CEs I saw that brought in rolling carts worth of materials).
You might take a look at this video, its a 1953 training film from the US Navy that covers the basics of a mechanical fire control computer. It includes information on a large number of mechanisms that would be helpful in making a mechanical computer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
EDIT: You might also grab an older edition of Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design: http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
The stock answers are Roark's if it was full of equations, or Shigley's if it was full of diagrams.
Maybe Machinery Handbook, but it doesn't sound like it.
I am using Conquering the Physics GRE as an overview, but I really enjoy anything from David Morin and David J. Griffiths for the level of questions and explanations (and in-book/online solutions manuals that go a long way towards showing you how to think like a physicist). But my "library" for preparing for the physics GRE is:
CM: Morin, Problems and Solutions in Introductory Mechanics and Introduction to Classical Mechanics
Gregory, Classical Mechanics for extra explanations and problems
EM: Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics 3e
QM: Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 3e
Thermo/Stat.Mech: Schroeder, An Introduction to Thermal Physics
Kittel and Kroemer, Thermal Physics
Waves: Morin, on his website are ten chapters to what appears to be a Waves book in the making
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/waves/
Atomic, Lab Methods: Conquering the Physics GRE and any online resources I can find.
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If you email Case Western, they send a link to some amazing flash cards!
I've been writing for over an our... and then everything was lost because I pressed a wrong button. FML
Sorry but I won't write it all again. I will just say the main points and some links I had. Here is one regarding the whole point of the conversation.
> pμ = mvμ (this is the ratio of four-momentum to four-velocity) and is also the ratio of four-acceleration to four-force when the rest mass is constant, or, Fμ = mAμ.
There are some misconceptions here which I had all worked out... I will just say this so that you know. Basically any book about special relativity can explain this quite well. I think that Griffiths has a pretty good explanation of all that (although it's a electromagnetism book). You can look up the chapter 12.
There are some misconceptions like "So an object with zero mass means that it has no resistance to being accelerated by a force,". I won't explain all that again...
I'm really sorry and really pissed that I lost my comment, but this will have to do.
Brush up on mathematical methods for physics. Learn Linear Algebra, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Multivariable Calculus, Complex Analysis, and Tensor Analysis. A good book would be this: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physical-Sciences-Mary/dp/0471198269/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1
Classical Mechanics: http://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Third-Course-Theoretical-Physics/dp/0750628960/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1291625026&amp;sr=1-7
E&M: http://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetic-Fields-Roald-K-Wangsness/dp/0471811866/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1
or http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-3rd-David-Griffiths/dp/013805326X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1291625100&amp;sr=1-1
Statistical Mechanics: http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Statistical-Thermal-Physics-Frederick/dp/1577666127/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1291625184&amp;sr=1-1
Quantum Mechanics: http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Quantum-Mechanics-R-Shankar/dp/0306447908/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1291625261&amp;sr=1-4
Do you know what textbooks you'll be needing next year? It might be a good idea to get a hold of them early and familiarize yourself with the material.
The go to undergraduate E&M book is Griffith's, Introduction to Electrodynamics. E&M is tough for a lot of people, so it'd be nice to have a leg up by reading through some of this book before the semester starts. Griffith's writing style is really easy to follow and he tries to guide you threw important derivations without skipping around too much. There's a reason this book is so ubiquitous in undergraduate physics.
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Griffiths Electrodynamics would be a good thing to look at. It's surprisingly readable, and it could possibly wind up being your E&M textbook. In my undergrad, E&M was the "weed out" course, where those who weren't up to scratch lost interest in the physics degree, so it's good to get a head start. I wish I had started on it sooner. Maybe I'd have gotten more out of E&M as an undergrad and then Jackson in grad school wouldn't have been so hard.
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047 This book is pretty useful, shows the scientific basis for a lot of essential daily things, as well as more general essentials like crop rotation and animal husbandry. couple it with a homesteading book, or the foxfire series, and you'll have a pretty good library for rebuilding civilization
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1525084544&amp;sr=8-2&amp;pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&amp;keywords=the+knowledge&amp;dpPl=1&amp;dpID=51xaSc0Jz6L&amp;ref=plSrch
>The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it.
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
Considering the clarifications made already, there has been something similar made already
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/ff-guidestones/
Though I imagine that would be incomplete.
Depending on the type of collapse, we could and would lose a lot of information, all cutting edge research (since that's mostly preserved digitally), though that would be less important, since we'd have to rebuild the machinery in order to use it.
As someone else mentioned, seed banks are a good start as well. As far as knowledge itself goes, there are two books I'd recommend, The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization (linkhttps://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047) which I have read and is interesting in an entertaining way, and even somewhat useful; and How to Invent Everything (link https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Stranded-ebook/dp/B07B2LNVBY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1543607051&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=how+to+invent+everything) which I haven't read yet, but is a similar idea. This one I have read, and it's kinda cool.
To get an idea for how difficult it will be to restart manufacturing at our current level, you may want to also check out The Toaster Project (link https://www.amazon.com/Toaster-Project-Attempt-Electric-Appliance-ebook/dp/B007N209P4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1543607108&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=toaster+project) where someone tries to build a cheap toaster from scratch, and how impossible it is.
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1482084654&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=the+knowledge
i have this one. if i ever get my life right and come over i'll bring it for you
http://www.amazon.com/The-Knowledge-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
Book of proof is a more gentle introduction to proofs then How to Prove it.
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No bullshit guide to linear algebra is a gentle introduction to linear algebra when compared to the popular Linear Algebra Done Right.
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An Illustrated Theory of Numbers is a fantastic introduction book to number theory in a similar style to the popular Visual Complex Analysis.
Here is an actual blog post that conveys the width of the text box better. Here is a Tufte-inspired LaTeX package that is nice for writing papers and displaying side-notes; it is not necessary for now but will be useful later on. To use it, create a tex file and type the following:
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But don't worry about it too much; for now, just look at the Sample handout to get a sense for what good design looks like.
I mention AoPS because they have good problem-solving books and will deepen your understanding of the material, plus there is an emphasis on proof-writing when solving USA(J)MO and harder problems. Their community and resources tabs have many useful things, including a LaTeX tutorial.
Free intro to proofs books/course notes are a google search away and videos on youtube/etc too. You can also get a free library membership as a community member at a nearby university to check out books. Consider Aluffi's notes, Chartrand, Smith et al, etc.
You can also look into Analysis with intro to proof, a student-friendly approach to abstract algebra, an illustrated theory of numbers, visual group theory, and visual complex analysis to get some motivation. It is difficult to learn math on your own, but it is fulfilling once you get it. Read a proof, try to break it down into your own words, then connect it with what you already know.
Feel free to PM me v2 of your proof :)
Visual Complex Analysis looks interesting, haven't read it yet.
You might like this book by Coxeter, who also co-wrote Geometry Revisited. Tristan Needham covers a bit of non-Euclidean geometry in Visual Complex Analysis. Really though I believe non-Euclidean geometry isn't a discipline of its own; it's part of differential geometry, so you might be better served looking for differential geometry references.
Part of the problem is that there are a lot of little things that are subtly wrong, and I'm sorry if this sounds patronizing, but it's because you're still ignorant of the larger theory. Let's take a few statements.
> Trigonometry is not the same as geometry by any means,
Trigonometry is the branch of mathematics that studies relationships between lengths and triangles. If it is not geometry, I do not know what is.
Now I think that people are being suckered into these statements because they associate the manipulation of sin/cos/tan as functional quantities. So they start thinking that this is not geometry because it involves purely algebraic manipulation of functions. Which is absurd. What do you think the graph of sin/cos/tan comes from?
It reminds me of a student who once had to punch into her calculator the value of sin(0). If you understand the origin of the definition of sine, you understand its value at the origin.
> especially the trigonometry used in electrical engineering (where it's really about complex exponentials, eiθ = cosθ + isinθ).
The notion of a complex exponential (typically) requires the notion of geometry in the complex plane. I say (typically) because there are different ways of defining the complex function. For example, you can define it as the addition of two separate infinite series that make up the real and imaginary parts. However you define it, you won't escape the notion that it is linked to points on the unit circle. This is geometry.
Tristan Needham basically claims (around Chapter 1) that the importance of complex numbers in many scientific pursuits is based on the fact that it is effectively equivalent to the definition of Euclidean Geometry. Hence again geometry.
> Electrical engineers aren't using trig to represent geometry, but to represent oscillations
Again, where are these oscillations coming from? They are defined via ratios of side lengths in a triangle as a point is rotated around the unit circle. This is geometry.
> Also, they're used in Fourier transforms and series - also completely unrelated to geometry.
A Fourier series is defined via an expansion of certain functions into more basic components of sines and cosines. The reason why you are able to do this boils down to geometric extensions of the notion of orthogonality and projections. Basically, the individual modes are orthogonal to each other (except their twin), and by projecting things in a judicious manner, you can derive formulae on the Fourier coefficients. Projections and orthogonality...this is geometry. What functions can or can't be Fourier summed? This relates to notions of continuity, differentiability, integrality, and periodicity. All of these, in the case of Fourier Series, are intimately linked to circles and ratios of side lengths.
As I pointed out in another post, the definition of Fourier transform inversion requires contour integration in the complex plane. Where do you think all those tables Engineers use are taken from? Contour integration is geometry. It involves notions of decomposing line segments and curves into sub-elements, integrating over circles and arcs, etc. Hell, even integration is geometry. If you can't figure out what area means, then how do you define the concept of an integral?
The problem is that students lose this geometric understanding of mathematics. Then you have to explain to them what happens when you actually integrate, or why an integral they calculated is obviously positive or negative based on the parity or sign of the function.
Check out Visual Complex Analysis by T. Needham . This covers complex analysis in a very original and vivid way!
Not fucking bad at all. There are a few changes I would make with pacing and a couple of minor spelling/punctuation mistakes, but I think this is quite a nice piece of writing with good voice that tells a story relatively well. This is the kind of thing that with a bit of editing can really be quite good. Forget about your SAT scores and college placement and all of that; keep writing. If you really want to master grammar and common usage, pick yourself up a copy of The Elements of Style and read it cover to cover.
So I'm basing this off of what's in Elements of Style which is the best reference book I have for grammer and writing questions like this. According to that, you write " 's " after it regardless of if the name ends in an s. So even though "Lapis's Ford Windstar" might look slightly unusual, it is correct on a technical level.
Though if you didn't like the sound of it you could always write "Lapis Lazuli's Ford Windstar" as well.
A writer's bible.
Elements of Style, 4e by Strunk and White. Best writing comp/grammar book out there.
I wouldn't have passed this. Your writing is incredibly flowery, your description is overwrought while managing to convey absolutely nothing, you adverb and adjective all over the place...
Sorry to be harsh, but you need to pick up some books on the absolute basics of fiction writing. I recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/Scene-Book-Primer-Fiction-Writer/dp/0143038265/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1291362532&amp;sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft/dp/1439156816/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1291362561&amp;sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-4th-William-Strunk/dp/0205313426/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1291362620&amp;sr=8-1
Pick up a copy of good ole Strunk and White. You can also check out Grammar Girl and Purdue's Online Writing Lab. Also, don't feel bad about not knowing all the ins and outs of grammar; most English teachers have to brush up from time to time.
Well, every grammar rule is technically "made up" and subject to (sometimes glacial) change. Besides, if grammar has its rules, then style has its elements that can often be as important as "legal" ones. This is true not just in grammar but also in life; for instance, wearing sweatpants to a job interview is almost certainly a bad idea that will leave a poor impression on the person who interviewed you, though there's probably no formal rule against doing so. It's a style choice, but an important one. Therefore, we teach many of these style choices as veritable rules, seeing as how instances requiring adherence to formal rules of grammar are often some of the most important (e.g. term papers, cover letters, official report drafts).
So while using fewer as opposed to less in this instance may not be following an iron-clad grammatical rule, in my experience the distinction becomes a self-evident stylistic choice in actual cases of ambiguity.
When the meaning of a given phrase is not ambiguous, such as "Ten items or less," then yes, I'd say it's nit-picky to offer such a "correction." But take Zequi's sentence above:
>Lately, I find less and less people correcting my grammar
I think most of us get the gist of it. Still, I spy a bit of ambiguity. Does "less and less" refer to the number of people correcting Zequi's grammar or to the number of (noticeable) grammar errors he makes at all? The distinction may be slight, but it's still a distinction.
TL;DR I need a life.
1st year super keen physics student here. I'm particularly passionate about plasma physics and I'm doing a research project this semester as well as an extension to my physics course in that field. I've already ordered a copy of Chen's 3rd edition, and have a hard copy of Fusion Physics as well as a library copy of Griffith's Electromagnetism (only 2nd edition though; worth getting the new one?)
Anyone have suggestions for texts/resources for physics along the same lines?
Cheers!
I thought of some books suggestions. If you're going all in, go to the library and find a book on vector calculus. You're going to need it if you don't already know spherical coordinates, divergence, gradient, and curl. Try this one if your library has it. Lots of good books on this though. Just look for vector calculus.
Griffiths has a good intro to E&M. I'm sure you can find an old copy on a bookshelf. Doesn't need to be the new one.
Shankar has a quantum book written for an upper level undergrad. The first chapter does an excellent job explaining the basic math behind quantum mechanics .
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-4th-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562
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See here (start on Pg. 9)
https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/ece303/Lectures/lecture28.pdf
Also here:
http://whites.sdsmt.edu/classes/ee382/notes/382Lecture32.pdf
If you want to google more, your keywords are "hertzian dipole field solution"
The gist of it is that for an oscillating current I(r), you immediatley know the auxiliary fields A and Phi (they follow the wave equation, with I as the source). From the auxilliary fields, you can immediately know E and H. (This is on Pg 8 of that second link). Actually just follow through those slides, you'll notice how the near-field terms you circled in red pops out from the equations.
The original Cosmos book by Sagan might be good here. If your friend likes that, follow up with The Pale Blue Dot.
If you want to to give your friend a taste, direct him to the Sagan Series, specifically, part 3: A reassuring Fable.
Your friend might also benefit from seeing Science Saved My Soul.
Totally get it. I have had these moments myself. The world IS huge but more important, we are tiny. Very very tiny. Read Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. If you think you’re tiny compared to the Pacific, just imagine how tiny we are compared to the rest of our galaxy... or our universe!
Once we come to acceptance of our existence, we can come back down and live our life with a purpose to love and help each other. Think about how insignificant every war ever fought on earth is to the rest of the universe. But if we can help make each other’s lives better, that’s pretty cool.
If you'd like to learn more, I highly recommend Carl Sagan's second book Pale Blue Dot. He goes over this topic in some detail. Its a fascinating read.
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by Martyn J. Fogg
Google will get you the rest. Enjoy!
The Case for God and The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong are both good. The God Delusion is a simple breakdown and explanation of most major religious claims. Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World by the Dalai Llama is an interesting book on ethics. The Koran: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Cook is 150 funny and insightful pages on Islam. Under the Banner of Heaven is a shocking and fascinating account of fundamentalist Mormonism. The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan discusses religion, and Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot are my secular versions of holy books. And of course given the occasion, I can't leave out God is Not Great.
I recommend avoiding authors like Lee Strobel and Deepak Chopra. Both are essentially liars for their causes, either inventing evidence, or deliberately being incredibly misleading in how they use terms. Popularity in those cases definitely doesn't indicate quality.
So that means you passed the FE. Do you mind if i ask you some questions? if u dont mind XD
I took the exam in around middle of 2017. i am a 2016 graduate. I struggled HARD on the exam even though i studied this book https://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336 or should i study the CHE specific one ? (never saw inside the book before. not sure if it will be good or not for what i need)
that book was seriously easy. so I thought I was really prepped. turns out i wasnt. I also screwed up in a way because i studied heavily on reactor design. turns out, its not even ON the dam test.... (idk why i thought it was... even though i looked at the topic sheet. i think i confused kinetics with reactor design)
i also kinda blanked out on some simple fundamental ChE questions, such as calculating heat duty on ... something... and a mass balance that required use of steam table.
so after that, i lost all confidence in what i learned during school.....
>practice practice practice. Take those practice exams.
where are these practice exams? i only know of 1 (and the free one someone gave me where they already paid the $50 from when they took it) all the others just make claims that its "FE exam material"
>hardest part was the general section for me, ChemE part was long but quite a bit easier.
yeah the material i am using is the https://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336 the subjects in it, at the very least, FELT like my uni courses. this practice exam i am taking is NOTHING like it. once i look at the solution, it is really easily solved, except, the equation they used isnt even in the FE reference manual, nor ones i even recall back in school. an example is the definition of work in terms of pressure and volume. i forgot the exact question of that form so i had to look it up.... except... they conveniently left that one out. (the w = ∫pdv one)
>don't over think it, lots of people are in the same situation (and still pass)
yeah i hear online that the cutoff to pass is somewhere in the 60% range. of course,there is no proof of this as the committee doesnt share it. but i mean, its a $200+ test.... i cant really see myself going to take it while my confidence level is so low after this practice exam....)
If you're still in school, I would look at their library for review manuals first. I was able to find this: Lindeburg's Review Manual. In my opinion, this manual more than prepared me for the test because it is actually a lot harder than the FE.
Get the official practice test from NCEES and the official equation book. Use your FE calculator and the equation book every time you study.
It took me about 1 week to successfully study for the ChE version, and I thought it was rather easy. It helped that I was still a senior and taking a statics class, though. Don't stress. If you come from a good program (I'm from Pitt), you'll already have 80% of the knowledge somewhere in your brain.
I bought this book and did all of the practice problems. You get a pdf manual to use during the test. You can download it from the NCEES website. It’s searchable and definitely helps to practice using it. I took mine in 2015 for civil so there may have been some changes since then. The university I went to offered review sessions that were open to non students. They weren’t free but were cheaper than most other options, maybe there’s a school near you that may offer them. Good luck.
I took the FE Electrical and Computer exam on Sat, Feb 27 and just found out today that I passed so I might be able to help you with studying for it
I started studying around the beginning of February.
In the back of the FE Reference Manual they have all the topics that will be covered by the test as well as how many questions for each topic. The questions are terribly difficult and I didn't think they were trying to trip you up. I am more interested in power so the computer, communications, signals topics gave me the most trouble. If you have any more questions feel free to ask me.
edit: here's what on the Electrical Exam and the Other Disciplines book is not worth whatever price is listed below. The electrical sections I looked at spanned maybe 30-40 pages. I would only look at it if you can get it from the library.
Download the NCEES Reference Manual from their website.
Buy the FE Review Manual
They also have a discipline specific review manual for chemical.
FE Review Manual
http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336/ref=sr_ob_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1368737700&amp;sr=8-4
I used this book extensively to prepare for the exam. I think I did about 4 full practice exams before I did the actual test. I ended up passing the first time I took it. I highly recommend this book because it also is an excellent reference for all things engineering later on in your life.
Yeah, I perfectly understand. Know that as harsh as it may seem though, there's always others in your same boat. Another thing to note: the questions in those practice books tend to be more difficult than those you would find on the exam, so getting used to those practice exam questions will make things during the actual exam seem a bit easier. I used the Michael R. Lindeburg one used and it ended up working out well. Again, don't be so hard on yourself because it's not an easy task but put in the time and you'll get by without a problem this time around.
We believe in you!
Maybe not exactly this, but the "Pocket Ref"
While not what you specifically asked for, in the same vein I would suggest keeping a copy of both the Pocket Reference and the Handymain In-your-pocket good books to have on hand for lots of different situations.
Definitely useful, buy one for yourself too
I keep a pocket ref and an aviation mechanic's handbook in my toolbox at all times. I even have 2 of each because I used to carry them with the ton of tools I kept in my old car when I would do side jobs at other airports.
I'm a sap for personalized gifts.
What about a nice, high quality monogrammed passport holder or wallet?
Also, I just ordered this handy book for some men in my life. I figure it's a good stocking stuffer and I sense they'll use it quite frequently!
Most of my Christmas List WL is for other people...the makeup and foot spa are for me though :)
Good luck!
Is this the one you are talking about?
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-Edition-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620
or are there one specific to construction?
I'm an EE, but I use this book any time I don't have access to the Internet. Bought it as a joke (Mythbusters used to talk about it all the time), but ended up loving it!
http://www.amazon.ca/Pocket-Reference-Edition-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620
Pocket Ref
Edit: Link
The Pocket Ref covers basically a little bit of everything. I find a reason to use it at least once a week.
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Edited: to add fountain pen, I don't know why I didn't think of it, given that mine is sitting right next to me...
Here is my go to book for optimal tap and die drill sizes as well as a whole host of other technical information, formulas, and conversion tables.
Pocket Ref
Here is the Desk Ref version with larger pages.
Desk Ref
Reference?
National Electric Code
Haynes manuals for various vehicles
Pocket Ref(erence Guide)
Various video game guide books
This might be a little bigger than you're looking for but it has tons of information
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426682268&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Pocket+Ref+4th+Edition
In my opinion the best way to learn and understand the chaos of sub-atomic particle and their place is to start with the trying to understand the standard model. It is the model in which everything is supposed to fit. It's the big picture.
If you have time to spare, consider watching these video lectures
http://www.cosmolearning.com/courses/particle-physics-the-standard-model-416/video-lectures/
Or pick up this book meant for people not well versed in math http://www.amazon.com/The-Theory-Almost-Everything-Standard/dp/0452287863
Or if you're a masochist and feel you're upto the task of really understand this stuff take a look at http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Elementary-Particles-David-Griffiths/dp/3527406018/ref=pd_sim_b_1
That book tries to see the physics beyond the standard model, marching towards and inching closer towards the ultimate goal of physics.
You sound like a great audience for the series I recommend to everyone in your position: Lenny Susskind's Theoretical Minimum. He's got free lectures and accompanying books which are designed with the sole purpose of getting you from zero to sixty as fast as possible. I'm sure others will have valuable suggestions, but that's mine.
The series is designed for people who took some math classes in college, and maybe an intro physics class, but never had the chance to go further. However, it does assume that you are comfortable with calculus, and more doesn't hurt. What's your math background like?
As to the LHC and other bleeding-edge physics: unfortunately, this stuff takes a lot of investment to really get at, if you want to be at the level where you can do the actual derivations—well beyond where an undergrad quantum course would land you. If you're okay with a more heuristic picture, you could read popular-science books on particle physics and combine that with a more quantitative experience from other sources.
But if you are thinking of doing this over a very long period of time, I would suggest that you could pretty easily attain an advanced-undergraduate understanding of particle physics through self-study—enough to do some calculations, though the actual how and why may not be apparent. If you're willing to put in a little cash and more than a little time for this project, here's what I suggest:
Note that this is sort of the fastest way to get into particle physics. If you want to take this route, you should still be prepared to spread it out over a couple years—and it will leave a whole smattering of gaps in your knowledge. But hey, if you enjoy it, you could legitimately come to understand a lot about the universe through self-study!
I'm no physicist. My degree is in computer science, but I'm in a somewhat similar boat. I read all these pop-science books that got me pumped (same ones you've read), so I decided to actually dive into the math.
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Luckily I already had training in electromagnetics and calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra so I was not going in totally blind, though tbh i had forgotten most of it by the time I had this itch.
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I've been at it for about a year now and I'm still nowhere close to where I want to be, but I'll share the books I've read and recommend them:
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I'm available if you want to PM me directly. I love talking to others about this stuff.
Audio Books are your friend, like seriously pick up something to listen to.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration by Michio Kaku
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time: Great Discoveries by Michio Kaku
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind (This one I recommend on the highest degree, personally I have read it 3 times)
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe by Stephen W. Hawking
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
Contact by Carl Sagan
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan
All these books I've listened to or read, and I recommend all of them some more then others, I have tons more about Quantum Mechanics, Physics, Biology, Cosmology, Astronomy, Math etc. But I'm to lazy to list all of them here.
...and honestly, this looks kinda idiotic when I spell it out like that... I'm not sure I want that kind of insight into my psyche.:-/
Not sure which version of the TV series you are getting, but on my DVD copy, at the end of each episode they have either Carl or Anne Druyan (his wife) giving an "Update Since Cosmos Was Aired". These were filmed somewhere close to 94 when he passed, so they're still a bit out of date from today, but still nice to see him realize some of the fascinating discoveries since.
Edit: If you enjoyed Cosmos, I'd highly recommend Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. It's pretty much a sequel to Cosmos, where Sagan contemplates the far future, and some of the possible means for mankind to explore the universe.
We. Me. I.
What is an I? Where is the "thing" that is the stuff of a separate entity somewhere under your skin, behind your eyes?
The reality is that there is no center to one's experience. No separate long-lasting "me" that experiences. Only experience itself. The ego arises out of thought, and a "me" is just a concept that the thinking mind conjures up. No agent means no agency. No chooser.
While on first glance this may sounds either incredibly stupid, confusing or woo-woo. But take a look and see.
I suggest you check out this video by Sam Harris that explores the concept of "illusion of self."
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wakingup
Or a book by Bruce Hood that scientifically explains this illusion:
http://www.amazon.com/Self-Illusion-Social-Creates-Identity/dp/0199988781
Or others:
http://www.amazon.com/Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind-Myth/dp/0465020690/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&amp;dpID=61R1WPTGL%2BL&amp;dpSrc=sims&amp;preST=_AC_UL320_SR216%2C320_&amp;refRID=0DKBDNE0ZCT2P7423FK2
http://www.amazon.com/Ego-Trick-Julian-Baggini/dp/1847082734/ref=pd_sim_14_5?ie=UTF8&amp;dpID=41AJedx6m9L&amp;dpSrc=sims&amp;preST=_AC_UL160_SR101%2C160_&amp;refRID=1A6QPVE3CNXPPJFX84Z9
Once you break the spell of "self-identity", unity arises.
there is no self there ! Aaaaaaaah !
Read The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind/dp/0465020690
Two contemporary books, by western scientists, pretty much confirm the position about "self" found in Buddhist philosophy.
The Self Illusion by Bruce Hood (https://www.amazon.com/Self-Illusion-Social-Creates-Identity/dp/0199988781)
The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger (https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind-Myth/dp/0465020690)
> Or are you saying that it must be the case that anything which can do these tasks must have a first person experience?
Closer to this, but I'm not saying that it would have to be to the level of an "experience," much less that it would necessarily entail the capacity to reflect on it or slice and dice its meaning. Even a Roomba needs some sense or internal modeling of a first-person perspective, emphasis on "some." The unit has to know where it is in relation to a ledge, for example. But even at this rudimentary level there is still the kernel of a self, because something has to be differentiated from the other somethings around which the first something must navigate.
> But why not 'we'?
Because it doesn't mean the same thing. If I lock you in a cell and don't bring you food, you'll starve. "We" (the royal we) could be well-fed and comfortable, but one of us will starve to death. This doesn't hinge on verbiage. You can use other labels if you like, but the underlying facts remain the same. A sandwich being eaten and you getting to eat the sandwich are not the same things. Only one nourishes you.
>Or perhaps there are many different experiences occuring that provide a perception as if there is one entity doing all of it and experiencing all of it.
Perhaps I'm just a Boltzmann brain and I'm imagining all of this. Perhaps this, perhaps that. I focus on how I and others actually engage the world. There is a vast sea of possibilities that we can't prove false. But I want to know how people actually think the world is, and why they think so.
>It's not clear to me what you mean when you refer to yourself.
When you cross the road, do you take care to avoid getting hit by cars? Do you pause in the middle of a busy street to parse what the "I" is you're trying to preserve from being hit by a car?
If you call the police and say someone is trying to kill you, would it make sense for them to say that it's not clear to them what you mean when you refer to yourself? I'm not asking merely if it would be appropriate in that emergency situation, rather I'm saying it would look like a silly and facile question. The question does not seem deep to me. Are you arguing for something, or trying to coax me towards an idea?
Sure, our sense of self can be looked at more closely. I particularly enjoyed Metzinger's The Ego Tunnel, and I've read a number of other books on the neuroscience underlying our sense of self. And there are indeed interesting philosophical conundrums, like the teletransportation problem for one example. But in everyday life we know what "I" and "you" mean. When we ask the waiter to bring us a salad, they know to whom we're referring. I'm using these terms in that colloquial, dictionary sense.
While the above is nice, if you are at all interested in rockets, get Rocket Propulsion Elements. Read it and love it, it is pretty much the bible of rocket engines and serves as a good foundation
It's a big topic, and rocket engineering can't be summed in a reddit post. Buy yourself some books.
If you want more knowledge on the design and analysis of rockets, get a copy of Rocket Propulsion Elements By Sutton. (http://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion-Elements-George-Sutton/dp/0470080248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1462063371&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=rocket+propulsion+elements) - You don't have to buy the newest edition, thermodynamics hasn't changed.
I believe for vehicle design the best reference is SPAD (Space Propulsion Analysis and Design) (http://www.amazon.com/Space-Propulsion-Analysis-Design-Website/dp/0077230299/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1462063423&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=space+propulsion+analysis+and+design) - Wow, that's more expensive than I thought.
Both books are intended for upper level college courses so you will need to learn other stuff too - like thermodynamics. But if you are interested in the subject then It will keep you motivated to learn the prerequisites as you go.
To start, learn the rocket equation, if you don't know it already. It is easy to do your first order analysis with just that, and add ~1km/s for air + gravity drag. Also, Wikipedia has an astounding amount of information. /u/danielravennest Wrote this wikibook, I haven't read it myself but he is always raving about it so you might find it useful.
Feel free to PM me. I am currently the lead engineer on a small bipropellant in-space propulsion system which is in early development.
The list provided by david is good, and I'm just going to point out two that are really good for understanding rockets and spaceflight:
One is Rocket Propulsion Elements, which I hear is great if you actually want to build your own engine. The other is Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, which helps to explain orbital mechanics, controls, and some other important facets of spaceflight like how we track a satellite from the ground.
Well the best place would be to start from technical side of things.
RPE by Sutton
https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion-Elements-George-Sutton/dp/0470080248
And Taming liquid hydrogen shows the problems of hydrolox that had to be solved to make lunar flight possible with rocket as small as SaturnV
https://www.history.nasa.gov/SP-4230.pdf
Russian N1 relied on kerosine and had only 1/2 the power of Saturn for TLI trajectory and that forced the design of their single person lander.
The historical perspective on the race is well shown in here https://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Space-Race-Apollo/dp/0813026288
It's intended to be a textbook for the next generation of space systems engineers. The old books like Sutton mostly cover how to design conventional rockets. I felt like a more comprehensive book was needed.
Maybe not in the redesign but the old sidebar got the bibles:
Another great ressource is Nakka Rocketry webiste (http://www.nakka-rocketry.net/) for actual data.
Whatever you do please do not blindly follow popular youtube videos. At best they document decade old techniques that everyone has abandoned because they are unreliable, at worst plain dangerous.
My favorite orbital mechanics book was like $9 when I bought it. Dover Books has a lot of good older books on math/engineering for dirt cheap, glad we used it in undergrad.
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (ISBN-13: 978-0-486-60061-1) seems to cover the basics.
Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1407087354&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=introduction+to+astrodynamics
This book is quite useful and understandable with a bit of reading: https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1524583559&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=orbital+mechanics
It's all calculable, but quicks starts needing a lot of math once you include orbit changes and air resistance.
An easy start is to determine your desired orbit's dV requirements, then plug your engine's Isp into the rocket equation to determine its propellant-mass fraction. Then you can use the weight of the engine plus fuel tanks and payload to estimate the fuel required to reach orbit in an ideal rocket.
There are quite a few online calculators like this one, that give you a sense of what order to calculate things and the terms to look for in equations.
If you're really interested in deeply understanding the maths behind launches and orbital mechanics, I can recommend this book which is a commonly used aerospace engineering text: Fundamentals of Astrodynamics.
Time to get the Bible out.
https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610
Maybe Fundamentals of Astrodynamics
Looks like you're missing one of the most important basic Orbital Mechanics books.
I'm a fan of my old copy of Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, by Bate, Mueller, and White. It was, by far, the cheapest textbook I purchased for my Aerospace degree (~$7; Amazon has it for <$3 used) but it is one of the primary texts in the field--most other texts wind up referencing this 1970s book. I seldom reference it anymore, though. FoA primarily focuses on how to calculate the motion of a spacecraft. It covers the Patched conics approach, various basic maneuvers, and interplanetary trajectories. It also covers how to figure out the orbit of an object based on ground measurements as well as perturbations--how things like uneven gravity, solar wind, and magnetism can affect an orbiting craft.
I also have read some of the AIAA edition of Space Vehicle Design, but it is considerably more expensive. It goes over more advanced concerns for the design and operation of practical, real-world space craft. If you have the coin and are interested in such things then you could pick it up. I've found the AIAA editions of Aerospace books to be well written in general. That book is only really worth it, though, if you have enough money that you won't miss the $70+ to buy or if you need it for your degree.
I've also had some luck with MIT Open Courseware, but I don't see much on aerospace that would be terribly relevant to KSP.
So, I graduated college with a degree in IT and took some calculus and geometry while I was there. I miss learning this kind of thing, and was wondering if there is a way to learn orbital mechanics as a hobby. If I pick up Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, would I be too in over my head?
Sorry that other people are being harsh critics, but yeah man. Respectfully, a couple of these are pretty overpriced.
Thing is, most people would rather buy a new book from the store than buy a used book for barely less than retail. I suggest you lower the prices, especially keeping this in mind:
Astrodynamics sells new for $17: https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610
Propulsion sells new for $25: https://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Thermodynamics-Propulsion-Philip-Peterson/dp/8131729516/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526807320&sr=1-2&keywords=mechanics+and+thermodynamics+of+propulsion+2nd+edition
Your edition of COE 3001 sells new for $113: https://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Materials-James-M-Gere/dp/1111577730/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526807508&sr=1-2&keywords=mechanics+of+materials+goodno and it's also not the current edition
Best of luck. And if you find someone looking specifically for the current edition of the Mechanics of Materials book, please send them my way!
Je me suis débrouillé au final et j'ai à peu près acheté les mêmes livres plus d'autres en français :
J'en ai eu pour un peu moins de 100€ mais là au moins je suis blindé pour te faire toutes les trajectoires que tu veux :)
Thanks !
Astroynamics - I really like Battin's introduction to astro ( amzn.to/2Iu6Jhz ), and based my series on the 2-body problem on chapter 3 in that book. It's a lot like a math textbook so BMW's Fundamentals of Astro ( amzn.to/2zJBWe3 ) would be a gentler, on both the wallet and mathematical rigor, text.
Numerical methods - I've learned numerical methods from a bunch of different places so I don't really have a go to textbook.
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I'm sure we'd all be willing to help, but you need to ask better questions. I work in the telecommunications industry for a company that develops carrier networking products, and yet I've little idea what you're really wanting. So for now, I'll answer the question that you have asked, though I doubt you'll like the answer.
>So what I would like is some books that explain what parameters affect the energy consumption at the telecommunications infrastructure.
The parameters that effect energy consumption are resistance, capacitance, and inductance. As far as books on the subject? I don't know. Maybe The Art of Electronics?
The Art of Electronics is an oldie but is very well written and quite entertaining. It goes through just about everything to the 68000 microprocessor (think the first Macintosh and a number of other platforms). For example, transistor man.
The canonical source is the book "Art Of Electronics" - http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
If you want something online, try googling for "basic electronics". Tons.
This page explains it fairly well, I think. So do Horowitz and Hill, if by chance you have their book handy.
I have used that basic design on a few different occasions, although my triangle wave generator looked more like this one. I believe I used an LM741 for the integrator (that's the amplifier with the capacitor in its feedback loop) and the two halves of an LM393 for the comparator in the triangle wave generator + the comparator used to make the PWM. Those exact parts aren't critical by any means, and I don't see anything wrong with Paul Hills' circuit (the first link) either except the part count is higher.
Edit: If you can find an MC33030, or if you care to trawl through catalogs looking for a modern (i.e. orderable) substitute, it will do do the PWM generation for you and it even includes the H-bridge to drive a motor (or in your case, coil) up to 1 amp.
This book?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521370957/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_ehsUzb9K25VCF
I like to use The Art of Electronics as my basic reference book.
While I understand the desire to make something and see the fruits of your labor, true understanding will come best through reading and research. I mean, you could start making circuits of someone else's design and then play around with the arrangement and values of components, but at best you are really just generating a case-by-case feel of how a particular circuit operates. Doing some calculations with many sets of hypothetical circuits (rather than building a bunch of circuits and playing around and taking measurements) will be a much more efficient way to really get understanding of how these things work.
I would recommend the discrete electronics bible, Horowitz And Hill's The Art of Electronics as well as Malik's Electronic Circuits. (Edit: actually, it's been a while since I've used these books and I can't remember what scope they really cover. I know Malik is a little more advanced and concentrates on state devices like diodes and transistors. Really, a basic engineering circuit analysis textbook might be best)
You should also check out this java applet. It is surprisingly powerful and gives a really good general idea of what electronic components do ('visually' and numerically)
The defacto bible is "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill which still sells for $100 even though the latest edition is from 1989. It is a thick book, but is better than most textbooks IMHO. They refer to many part numbers that are long past gone, but it should give you the vocab and keywords for you to search out the current parts.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342471024&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=art+of+electronics
Other than that, if you want more beginner books - look at Make: Electronics
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Charles-Platt/dp/0596153740/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342471247&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=make+learning+electronics or the Forrest Mims books
As far as power supplies specifically, I believe I found a couple of howto webpages that described the basics - I'll edit this post if I find them again.
A very good introduction to electronics and circuits is The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill. There is an accompanying lab manual that takes you through building some cool circuits.
This is often referred to as "The Bible" and is a common text for undergrads in physics. I still use it as a PhD student.
There are tons of books for learning basic Electronics. Any one of them will give you the basics, but you won't be able to get your EE degree in 2 weeks.
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Basic-Electronics-Softcover-arrl/dp/0872590828/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335460522&amp;sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Electronics-Forrest-Mims/dp/0945053282/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335460522&amp;sr=8-7
This book will show you all the stuff you don't know yet (because I seriously doubt you could read this book in 2 weeks and have an understanding of what is in it):
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335460573&amp;sr=8-1
Practical Electronics for Inventors is an amazing book which covers the basics of essentially every aspect of electronics a beginner would need to know. Seems to have had a problem with poor editing but it's cheap (under $30) and still far better than anything else out there.
The Art of Electronics is twenty years old and is still pretty much the standard reference for practical electrical engineering topics. Some sections show their age but still incredibly useful. A new edition is supposed to be coming out eventually.
It's best to learn by doing, but sometimes those kits don't cut it. Like others, I recommend toying with a breadboard, but I also think getting your hands on these books will also help. They're beginner's books, are easy to follow, and have some interesting circuits to play around with. Additionally, there is a tiny bit of theory in it. If you want to go hardcore into the theory without having to do much math, go for the electronics bible, Horowitz and Hill.
If cost is a concern for your prototype, there's OSH Park. They pool and panel orders and make the boards at a place in Illinois I believe. I haven't used them yet, but will be placing an order in a couple days. For layout help, you might ask on the EE stack exchange site or the Sparkfun forum. Before laying out your board, be sure to set the design rules in your software to those from whichever fab you select. Here's a comparison of boards ordered from OSH Park and two other inexpensive options.
The Art of Electronics has a section on board layout, and there are a bunch of application note PDFs out there from semi companies:
For Reduced EMI
These guides are specific to certain microcontrollers, but still have good info:
As someone who recently transitioned a prototype from Arduino/breadboard to a custom board, I'd also suggest you take a look at ARM if you aren't tied to Atmel. The performance for STM32 and Stellaris chips is great considering the cost, and they are almost price competitive with PIC and Atmel chips. TI has a Stellaris launchpad board now, and ST has several cheap eval boards. There is a gcc toolchain for ARM, and the MikroE ARM compiler is a reasonably-priced commercial option (demo up to 8k program space).
What software are you using for layout?
Ahh... then, that being the case, if you're a novice with electronic theory, then I highly suggest this book: The Art of Electronics.
If you read Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot you would have known that Triton will eventually be destroyed in some way similarly to what is described in that article.
On the subject of the self, check out the well-researched book Ego Tunnel. It proposes, convincingly, that the self is categorically not some kind of substantial, essential invariant like a spirit or homunculus, but an experiential, transient and brittle construct (it disintegrates when you sleep, for eg) within the broader process of consciousness. There's too much to explain, so check it out.
>whether the self has an objective basis
The self is an illusion; per Metzinger’s Ego Tunnel:
"the conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain—an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is 'a virtual self in a virtual reality.'"
This book will help you understand the neurological foundation for the sensation of self.
>and if so, life itself would not be individual existence in itself? What is biological life and why is it created?
Life is a series of complex chemical reactions driven by the energy of the sun and the earth, existing only to maximize entropy.
Very nice. Its nice to see this particular school of philosophy-of-mind getting out there. If you enjoyed this, I would also recommend the fantastic Out of our Heads by Alva Noe, and The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger.
Um, to be honest I haven't read much from neuroscience other than Libet's Experiment and the clinical neuropsychologist Paul Broks saying, “We have this deep intuition that there is a core… But neuroscience shows that there is no center in that brain where things do all come together.”
There are some articles and books I have in my reading list, but once you get that this can be easily confirmed in DIRECT EXPERIENCE, the other materials are just superfluous, IMO. Here, I'll share them anyway.
“Who’s There?” Is The Self A Convenient Fiction?
Ego Trick: In Search of the Self
The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
What Exactly Is the Self? Insights from Neuroscience
Neuroscience of Self and Self-Regulation
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
And check out The Ascent of Humanity for a thorough discussion of the implications of the separate self on lots of aspects of our (collective) lives. Eisenstein traces all of the converging crises of our age to a common source, which he calls Separation. It is the ideology of the discrete and separate self that has generated these crises; therefore, he argues, nothing less than a "revolution in human beingness" will be sufficient to transform our relationship to each other and the planet.
The Ego Tunnel, Thomas Metzinger.
Reading this book liberated me from the lingering doubts I had about the supernatural. It shows that even when an experience is vivid, compelling, or even hyper-real that it is not necessary to take it as confirmation of vitalism, dualism or any other variety of supernatural thinking. Supernature is superfluous.
Our explanations of such experiences are usually wrong because they are based on cultural assumptions and an inability to really think analytically. It turns out that human's are really bad at solo reasoning and, more often than not, fall into fallacies and biases. We extrapolate our private experiences into ontological conclusions and we are almost always just wrong. Liberated from the mill stone of pre-scientific thinking about experience, we can begin to pay attention to what is actually happening in experience without all the overlays from culture and tradition.
Most of us are so loaded up with half-understood doctrine that we have no possibility of having an experience without unconsciously and automatically overlaying it with interpretations drawn from our existing beliefs. Thus we never really pay attention to the qualities of the experience itself. We're always dealing at one layer of abstraction remove. Most of the Buddhism we've learned just gets in the way of experience in the end.
I spent the first 10 years of being a Buddhist reading dozens of books, and the second 10 years discovering that most of what I read was useless or wrong or both. Metzinger's book might help others take a shorter route. He's completely wrong about Buddhism, but it's still the most important book on how the mind words that I've read because of how it make me reconsider my own conclusions.
> Rocket Propulsion Elements
https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion-Elements-George-Sutton/dp/0470080248
This book?
I hope you have a background in basic calculus and physics, at the very least.
Obtain this book and read it cover to cover before you even think about it. It's expensive but should be available at an engineering library.
https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion-Elements-George-Sutton/dp/0470080248
If you're okay with PDF, here you go:
http://www.ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/~ernesto/S2013/EP/MaterialsforStudents/Lee/Sutton-Biblarz-Rocket_Propulsion_Elements.pdf
i think thats actually not possible. I believe thats because you need to expand the flow to derive thrust and making the "bell" long enough to align the (now atmospheric pressure) flow exactly with the slipstream is impractical (it weighs too much). It might be possible if you were building a test article (ie. a rocket that didnt actually go anywhere, so it had no thrust/weight requirement). In any other configuration, whatever bell size you choose will be suboptimal in some regime. (ie. underexpanded at sea level, or overexpanded at altitude, etc.)
(there are variable geometry nozzles, and in fact thats what the aerospike is supposedly "better" at), but doing that in metal is quite expensive in weight.
I remember working this out for myself while reading Sutton about 10 years ago, but i cant remember why now.
Another fun little thought exercise is the "ice rocket" (the one that actually produces ice in the exhaust becuase of the expansion). This apparently can actually occur.
tl;dr: Yes. You gain additional velocity from a spinny Earth by launching east from the equator versus launching from Cape Canaveral, which either means you can use a rocket with less propellant (cheaper) or put more mass in orbit.
Yes. Dig this latitude map. I'm not sure when what we're talking about becomes actual Rocket Science, but we're close.
Check out this link regarding the Delta V (that's delta vee and not delta five, which makes googling for this stuff suck beyond imagination). The idea is that by launching east at the equator you get more of a velocity boost from the rotaty Earth than you do elsewhere. I compared the numbers I linked to in my (Sutton)[http://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion-Elements-George-Sutton/dp/0470080248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1303169914&amp;sr=8-1] and they disagreed, so I won't quote them. You can feed the difference in velocity gained launching east from the equator versus Cape Canaveral back into the Tsiolkovsky equation (and you can google that shit all day long) and eventually work out how much more mass you could've put into orbit if you launched from the equator versus Cape Canaveral.
You might also check out Wikipedia's article on Delta Vee and work to gain your own understanding of this, since I am absolutely not a rocket scientist.
What you seem to be not understanding is that using a simulator is far and away the quickest, easiest, and because it is completely free, the cheapest way to learn how rocket science really works. Using a simulator will save you countless hours when it comes to making a rocket over just shoving some chemicals into a tube and crossing your fingers. And speaking of fingers, it just might save you some of them, too. Because people do lose fingers playing with rockets.
Since you seem to be familiar with electronics, I'll make a comparison with LTSpice. Instead of spending hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars on a parts library and expensive test gear you test all of your designs on a tool that is completely free.
This isn't gatekeeping. It is exactly the opposite. It is enabling.
As to sources to learn, one of the best resources is linked right in the sidebar:
https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion-Elements-George-Sutton/dp/0470080248
There is even a copy available on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/RocketPropulsionElements8thEditionByOscarBiblarzGeorgeP.Sutton
This is also something that gets mentioned almost daily in discussions here. Pretty much any thread on motor construction has referenced it.
And has already been mentioned numerous times in this thread, Nakka's website is
pretty much the de-facto standard when it comes to sugar propellants. But seriously, any google search on sugar propellants should bring that up so it really shouldn't even need to be said in the first place.
Establish the properties you know and those you care about finding - Viscosity, thermal conductivity, molecular diffusion coefficient, fuel/oxidiser requirements (i.e. mass conservation) for example.
Here's a few things to think about:
I've just added a Reference Library with a few books on rocket engines.
I can surely suggest you some books which cover a vast field of rocket science.
These are the same books which Elon musk used for self learning Rocket science.
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How's your calc/linear algebra? Rather than trying to answer specific questions, I recommend Fundamentals of Astrodynamics.
Its like 10 bucks and has pretty much everything you need to run a manned lander mission to Neptune.
An upvote for the BMW book (link: http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Roger-R-Bate/dp/0486600610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309920300&amp;sr=1-1-spell )
well to understand basic orbital mechanics, I got my hands on Fundamentals of Astrodynamics which I love, and you can get from there the basic newtonian motion of the planets, from there I don't know a good book to recommend on the concepts of relativity, but basically take the math presented in fundamentals of astrodynamics in the n-body equations and add a fourth dimension to the vectors, t, or time. As time is directly related to the vectors when dealing with the n-body equation.
I think at least, again I'm still learning about relativity myself.
There is a fairly standard set of data called "two-line elements", which describes the main orbital elements of the satellite. Wikipedia
Orbital elements describe the orbit of the satellite. "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics" by Bate, Mueller, and White is the best book for understanding this stuff. Amazon
A lot of satellites broadcast this information in plain Morse code, which you can listen to if you really want. There are lots of resources out there that aggregate this information for you already. CelesTrak, OSSI, SatObs
BMW is probably the best intro book I've seen. Doesn't cover the space environment or propulsion as much as this book though.
Also if you or anyone else is really looking into it the two most useful text book I found to be SMAD (Space Mission Analysis and Design): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mission-Analysis-Design-Technology-Library/dp/9401051925/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=space+mission+analysis+and+design&qid=1559028595&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Other good reads are Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (which is much more relevant for KSP) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SWR1ICPOGQ7X&keywords=fundamentals+of+astrodynamics&qid=1559028689&s=gateway&sprefix=the+fundamentals+of+astro%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1 And Ignition! to cover the history in a very entertaining manner https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ignition-Informal-Propellants-University-Classics/dp/0813595835/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/259-4345144-1867258?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0813595835&pd_rd_r=9e3755d8-811a-11e9-9b3b-b9bbd55e85d0&pd_rd_w=sq1G0&pd_rd_wg=m37dV&pf_rd_p=18edf98b-139a-41ee-bb40-d725dd59d1d3&pf_rd_r=WPHT2J5EFR2KZ1WYVJEX&psc=1&refRID=WPHT2J5EFR2KZ1WYVJEX .
You can probably find pdfs online for those if you look mind.
Let me add, that I bought this game back in 2012... Looking at my email receipt:
>Aug 6, 2012 19:29:07 EDT | Transaction ID: 0XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>Hello Derfherdez,
>You sent a payment of $18.00 USD to Electro Chango S.A. de C.V.
So, yes it was worth $18 USD back then, and it sure is worth that today. At the same time I've gifted about 5 copies of this to friends/family over the years so I've spent way more on KSP, and it's totally worth it.
If you have ever seen the right stuff, Apollo 13, or even been inspired with the idea of the next frontier... This is an incredible buy. It's realistic enough that it's nothing retarded like pressing 'F' to pay respect, but enough that people here have even bought books like Fundamentals of Astrodynamics to get a better idea on how things 'work'.
The game will challenge you in ways that nor mindless button masher ever will. And maybe, just maybe inspire people to take us to that next great leap for mankind.
10/10 I'd buy this game over and over.
Get the demo, build a rocket, try to get it to do something, then get the game before the sale runs out!
Bates, White, and Mueller are all co-authors of this book: Amazon link, which is commonly referred to as the "BMW" book because of their names.
Side note - it looks like there's a second edition, so might want to go for that. The first edition is fine so far to me, probably just has some outdated numbers or notations.
It sounds like you’re looking to be a spacecraft orbital analyst, or a mission analyst and trajectory planner as we call them at my company.
If this is your dream, choose aerospace engineering and choose a school that has a strong focus on space, because some are better for aircraft. CU boulder is a great example of a school that invests just as much if not more in their space systems research.
You want to start looking into spaceflight dynamics and astrodynamics. The best book for this would be “fundamentals of astrodynamics” by Bate, Mueller, and White. That book is a classic, it’s almost 50 years old but it’s the gold standard of this field. And it’s cheap as hell. You can find it here:
it’s only $15 with prime one day shipping!
I also highly recommend looking up beginner videos on YouTube to supplement the text. Once you have the basics down (orbit and conic geometry, rocket equation, etc) I’d download NASA GMAT (it’s free) and start waking through some tutorials on that software. If you go to college for engineering, usually the school will have STK (systems tool kit) available for free download as well. Both softwares are used heavily throughout the industry.
And play kerbal space program, it’s a fun way of learning and visualizing some of this stuff.
Quite literally, it means change of velocity. When people talk about "needing enough dV to get somewhere," what they mean is that, they need enough fuel to get there. I'm going to use arbitrary numbers right now because I'm too lazy to look up the actual ones, and simple is better anyhow.
Lets say you have a craft in low kerbin orbit. You want to go to the Mun. You're currently traveling 2300 m/s. In order to intercept the Mun, you need to be going 2900 m/s. Once in the Mun's sphere of influence you're traveling at 800 m/s, and you need to burn retrograde until you're traveling at 200 m/s to achieve orbit. The opposite is true to achieve escape velocity, and then once you escape, you're traveling 3000 m/s and need to reduce your speed to 2700 m/s for your periapsis to allow re-entry to kerbin.
(Again, these numbers are ball park, not exact).
So, the dV you need to get to the Mun's SoI is 600 m/s (from 2300 to 2900). A capture burn is 600 m/s, and an escape burn is 600 m/s. A final burn for entry is 300 m/s of dV. So, the total dV your ship needs in this scenario to go for the whole trip is 2100 m/s of dV.
Now, this does get a little more complicated when in an atmosphere, because you'll burn more fuel trying to escape than you would in a vacuum. Also, the effect of gravity on your craft is going to change the efficiency of your rocket depending on how much vertical and horizontal velocity you have at various points of your burn. When people say they're building a ship with ideal dV, what they typically mean is "I did the math and found that if I manage to fly the most optimal flight path available to use my fuel the most efficiently, I need enough fuel to perform dV burns at various points in the trip totally this number." The math behind all these variables gets a lot more complicated, and if you really want to nerd out, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics" will help you to understand what the hell is going on just a bit better. I like that book because it has the math, a brief explanation, and diagrams all in one package. You'll learn all about various transfer types too!
...or you can just download mods that do the work for you, like many people! Or, you can just wing it and hope for the best like even more people! I mean, worst case scenario it's time for a rescue mission, right?
BMW (the book above) is the standard intro astrodynamics book. BMW was updated though and I think the following modern book is a great upgrade to an intro book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486600610/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687462&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0080977472&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=1NCCS2QNN7XXT6N691HX
http://www.amazon.com/Orbital-Mechanics-Engineering-Students-Aerospace/dp/0080977472
> I gotta look at some orbital mechanics books
If you really want to go through with that I highly recommend "Introduction to rocket science and engineering". It goes reasonably into depth but is still accessible with a decent highschool math and physics background. Besides orbital mechanics it covers the basics of pretty much all aspects of rocket science (history, thermodynamics, orbital mechanics, propulsion elements etc.) It is a bit pricey though, you probably want to find it somewhere cheaper.
If you're a bit more advanced (primarily in math) you could also checkout "Fundementals of astrodynamics" which is nice and cheap or "Orbital Mechanics for engineering students" if you really want to make it your job.
I am a mechanical engineer by trade but I am really interested in spaceflight and orbital mechanics so in the past months I have been catching up with those books.
https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610
The math for the parched comics stuff actually is not that hard. It's just know what you are looking for and plug it in. Basic algebra. Once you stray from that and do the cordinate transformations and into the the non patched conics stuff it gets a lot harder.
Kerbal player?
If you're really diving into orbital mechanics, this is what I highly recommend: Fundamentals of Astrodynamics. "Bate, Mueller, White" is generally considered the intro textbook in aeronautical engineering. It's a long-time classic (and cheap!), and is written by three professors of astrodynamics at the US Air Force academy.
>"Develops the basic two-body and n-body equations of motion; orbit determination; classical orbital elements, coordinate transformations; differential correction; more.
>Includes specialized applications to lunar and interplanetary flight, example problems, exercises."
I'm sorry if this is not what you asked, but if you have at the very least high school or ideally some university level knowledge of math it sounds like Fundamentals of Astrodynamics might be at least part of what you are looking for? It's focus is orbital mechanics and maneuvers in space, including interplanetary trajectories. While i have not finished it, it is so far really good and widely used. Bonus points for being really cheap. Although again, you do need math to really appreciate this book. Without going through the math you can still learn some things from it, but i am not sure if this book would still be that fun to read.
I found this book quite useful back in high school. I haven't seen/touched it in 10+ years, but the concepts have been tried and true for many many decades. It's math-based and is written by Air Force Academy professors. It definitely doesn't cover everything, but it can get you started in the right direction. It's also not too hard to grasp as far as concepts go, but knowing Calculus and the likes are going to make it fully understandable.
I can't help you with the French part but in America the standard is this. Most people refer to it as BMW for the authors' names. There might be translations of it; I don't know. It's actually a surprisingly fun read. The first few pages talk about Newton with a kind of religious fervor that you never see in a textbook. It's beautiful. Also, it's damn cheap.
My orbitals professor also wrote a more condensed pdf textbook which he gave just to us. It's actually more clear than almost any other engineering textbook I've used. If I can find it, I'll post it.
Totally not a smartass answer: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
This book taught me many amazing things.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
EE yes. If you can EE than you can program. Taking a few CS courses will teach you the finer points of programming. But if you want to play with hardware than EE is the way to go.
Between EE and CS, both types learn programming. Focus on EE if you are thrilled by hardware. Focus on CS if you love logic puzzles and high level abstractions. FYI EE pays more and you can always get a programming job with an EE. The reverse is not true.
(Although I have to say that most EE's I know are terrible programmers. But that doesn't seem to stop them.)
I think a book that would be perfect for you is
The Art of Electronics
. The first half is all basic electronics. Then it gets into logic circuits and finally simple computer circuits.
One nice thing about this book is that the chapters are very well organized. So if you don't want to learn everything there is to know about transistors, just read the first few pages of the transistor chapter and the move on.
I am a current EE student right now and saw you ask in another comment about book recommendations so I thought I would throw a few in:
You should probably throw in some electromagnetic and semiconductor physics for good measure as well.
Read The Art of Electronics. It's a pretty great book.
Been looking into this text, any idea on where I can grab/look for it for less than the terrifying amazon pricing?
Best two:
Last summer while on holiday I was laying on the poolside chairs (hiding from the intense midday sun, the sea/pools were empty around noon), reading The Art of Electronics. I had it on the foot side on my chair, laying on my stomach so you could see the book when going around.
The hotel staff was running around, giving out cold water, entertaining kids etc. One of them went by me, did a double take on the book (I was on some page with a lot of circuit diagrams, graphs, ... ), stopped and asked if he could have a look. I said sure, he picked it up, flipped through it, shook his head and went away without saying a word.
Not really sure what he though, but it certainly wasn't the standard beach reading material.
Glad to see you're approaching this from the correct angle. We get this sort of question here all the time, but it's usually "how do i electronics" and they get upset when they find out math is involved.
Definitely follow the math up through precalc, calculus, and differential equations. Learn Laplace transforms if you have time. You'll also want to explore physics pretty far, much of it will apply when you least expect it. Electronics is a mix of applied physics and chemistry. Finally you'll want to learn some thermodynamics. Understanding heat transfer and energy will be pretty useful. For all of these, I would just hunt down some college textbooks and some related Schaum's outlines.
While you're doing that, make sure to dabble in electronics to keep you focused. Build up some assembly, soldering, and possibly circuit layout skill. Definitely find this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
The Art of Electronics is $20 on amazon if you get it used. It's quite a price break from new.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
Otherwise as the others have said, broken projects happen often. You'll get more help of you're asking for help on a specific project with photos.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
This is a good practical book made for the beginner:
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336
This is the "bible":
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
jel se možda može naći ovo ?
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
:)
The Art of Electronics is a fun book.
This looks like a good book
http://www.amazon.com/MAKE-Electronics-Learning-Through-Discovery/dp/0596153740/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1279769926&amp;sr=8-3
This IS a good book but deals with advanced theories.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1279769926&amp;sr=8-16
And this looks pretty good.
http://www.amazon.com/Circuitbuilding-Yourself-Dummies-Ward-Silver/dp/0470173424/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1279769941&amp;sr=8-21
Go to the book store, pick up some books. Go the the library and see what they have. Pick up old radios and junk off of the street take them home and pull them apart but be careful of the capacitors, if you dont know what a capacitor is then read one of the above books.
Look on craigslist for free electronics and start taking them apart. Be careful of anything that uses Alternating current, anything that plugs into a wall deals with large voltages so be sure to start small.
An op amp is a differential amplifier with an enormous gain, something along the lines of 10^(6)
This causes some interesting things, for instance, with input voltages above, say 1/1000 of a volt, it will act as a comparator, the largest voltage immediately sending the input high or low.
Because of this high gain, it is easy to construct a circuit for an amplifier that is determined by the ratio of two resistors alone, the gain disappearing entirely from the equations.
Op amps can also be used to add DC bias to a signal.
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These are some useful resources
How to bias an Op Amp (MIT)
The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz (worth every penny)
Khan Academy's course on the subject
The Art of Electronics is the one essential electronics textbook. The microprocessor stuff is sadly dated, but OTOH, nobody has written a better book for understanding transistors and op-amps. If $100 is too steep, shop around for a paperback international student edition.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
maybe check out this book and see if you can do a little better with it. it still has math, but you can't really get around all of it: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-Scherz/dp/0071771336
you at least have to be able to do some ohms law and some basic calculations. A lot of other things have seemingly impenetrable calculus behind them but I've found a lot of the time you can just read a data sheet and they'll give you some simple formulas that you can just plug into that work well enough. You don't need to know how they came up with the formulas, just plug in your parameters and go.
You should go on youtube and watch some videos of people repairing amps. there's lots of good ones and you can pick up a lot of stuff through osmosis. also check out EEVblog.
lastly, instead of messing with your nice guitar amp, build a cheap one yourself and mess with it. there's tons of schematics online you can use and it's pretty fun to build one. I put this one together and I really like it: http://www.runoffgroove.com/ruby.html You can buy all the parts from digikey.com
Wow, thanks fro the great answers /u/crb3 ! Really interesting stuff.
Number 3 I'm going to read through really slowly again to try to makes sure I get it all. Reverse protection diode makes sense. I think I can leave it out since I am using only 9v DC from the wall wart so it'd be hard to get it backwards like a battery. It seems like increasing the value of C3 would allow a larger reservoir of power and less sag?
One question, why does it matter it it is a 0.1 uF MLC cap vs some other type of capacitor, i.e., What desirable properties are exclusive to MLC?
This is exactly what I has hoping for. I'm slowly working through this book now to get a better understanding of this stuff, but practical explanations like the ones you provided are really interesting and provide an awesome supplement to what I have learned so far from the text book!
Next step is the breadboard to try some of this stuff out!
This is a pretty good guide to the electronics part. Find kits on AliExpress for the components.
Not a video but, I'm just finishing my first semester of Circuits and I bought this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-Scherz/dp/0071771336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418850335&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=practical+electronics+for+inventors
and reading it helped much more than the class textbook. It will probably follow about the same arc as the glass and its a very readable technical book. Plus it has later chapters on actual practical circuits and stuff on digital circuits information so I highly recommend it.
Interesting. I have more reading to do. But that's good. Hmmm I could have sworn there was a section in this book that talked about ohms law could t be used to both ways or something or other. Oh well.
The Horowitz/Hill bible is great, he's a physicist/EE. For some people, though, his interest in the physics isn't necessarily what they geek out on, and so for those people I'd suggest also Practical Electronics for Inventors.
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336
I found this book to be very easy for beginners to pick up and enjoy, and get started on building far more quickly.
I explained to you my position and you still deny 48V at .33A would produce a shock that might cause a lawsuit. I was being friendly and informing and your rambling that it dosent matter because "it doesn't give the voltage and frequency". We were assuming PoE which is more than likely 48v and frequency dosent even make sense in the context as its DC.
I would recommend this book if you're interested in learning about Ohm law and current flow so you can make informed observations. However looking through your 1st page comment history briefly I can see you just want to argue and the subject is irreverent. Take care, I've wasted enough of my time.
Electronics is both easy and hard. The easy parts are following a schematic and plugging existing circuits together. This is usually much easier with digital electronics since all the electronics are doing are turning the current on and off or bringing the voltage high or low. The hardest part is making sure you connect all the wires correctly, and most devices are protected, and voltages are low, so crossing wires won't fry the device (though LEDs are easy to burn out). You can get very far with this "lego" mindset to circuit design. If you want to understand how current flows through an electrical network, and why resistors need specific values, how analog circuits work, and why digital signals need certain components like capacitors, then you'll need to invest more time in understanding electrical theory. This book is really good for that: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336
Others may disagree, but I've found this book
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Edition/dp/0071771336
To be extremely informative both for the layman such as myself, and I imagine it's useful for the more experienced of us as It goes into rather extensive detail - including all the mathematics and electrical theory.
Practical Electronics for Inventors
The name is somewhat silly but I've found it to be particularly useful. Plus, its fairly cheap...
If you want to do it all on your own and have 0 experience you are going to have to learn a lot about programming and electronics.
You can start here for programming:
http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Modern-Approach-2nd/dp/0393979504/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426519326&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=c+programming+a+modern+approach
For electronics start here:
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Electronics-Forrest-Mims/dp/0945053282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426519459&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=getting+started+in+electronics
Then here
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-Scherz/dp/0071771336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426519443&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=circuit+design
Once you've done that then I suggest you start buying Arduino kits etc. I'm not saying you need a lot of experience to start with Arduino, but if you are looking to make a commercialized project and have a budget I think it's better to know what to buy before you start throwing money away in things (e.g. kits) you won't even use.
Here is the mobile version of your link
I would highly recommend Art of Electronics. I've read dozens of books on this category and it is by far my favorite; useful both for initial instruction as well as later reference. Yes, it is expensive, but IMHO is well worth it.
The other book I'd recommend is "Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Scherz and Monk. Best breakdown of capacitor types and applications that I've seen. Link here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0071771336
How does Roark's compare to Shigley's?
There's two textbooks that are commonly used to teach material behavior and mechanical component design (such as springs, bearings, etc). Both these textbooks are what I had to learn with.
http://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Behavior-Materials-4th-Edition/dp/0131395068
http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
Both these textbooks are easily to obtain if yer a pirate, as well as the solution manuals. They start fairly basic, however, they quickly go quite in depth. Shigley will probably be most useful for you, but definitely flip through them both. There will be a lot of over-lap content wise. I doubt you will find any textbook material on starter springs specifically because they are a specialty spring, however, mechanics of springs still apply to them.
Have fun :p Component design can get very complicated and convoluted so try and not get frustrated if things don't make sense. Let me know if you have any more questions, and feel free to PM at anytime. I can't promise I'll have a good or correct answer for you all the time, but I can try. Component design was actually one of my least favorite classes so it's definitely not my strong suit, but I understand the majority of what is taught in Shigley's and Dowling's.
Shigley's Mechanical engineering and Design seems to be the standard for mechanical engineering.
Oh crap yeah u right I found this book to be helpful as well https://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
halliday and resnick for general physics
1 - goldstein
2 - griffith
3 -
4 - griffith or jackson
Talking about one universal electric field is counterintuitive. While RRC is technically correct, (EM fields do obey superposition, and are defined throughout all space), this is semantics and detrimental to learning if you are not an expert. Unfortunately, this is reddit, where semantics are the most important aspect of a post. There ARE individual electromagnetic fields. If you want, you can say that these all add together to form one giant universal field, but why would you (considering most drop off to ~zero in a relatively short distance)? When it comes to the universal aspect, think of the electromagnetic force as being universal.
To get to the questions.
I can't actually DEFINE a GENERAL electromagnetic field in a common definition. I can only tell you that there are a set of partial differential equations that define how EM fields behave (Maxwell's equations, Lorentz force law), and solutions to these equations are electromagnetic fields.
Also, light does not propagate THROUGH electromagnetic fields. Light IS propagating electromagnetic fields. Light is known more generally as electromagnetic radiation, and it is simply energy that propagates in a wavelike fashion out to infinity, generated from the motion of charged particles.
We use Griffith's Electrodynamics in my physics program. He's very clear and conversational.
You should probably start by cracking open a copy of a good E&M book, like this one, and learning the science, rather than relying on Einstein quotations.
Of course, that assumes you've already learned integral and differential calculus (which any 19-year-old science or engineering student has).
He means this
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-Edition-David-Griffiths/dp/013805326X
I do highly recommend Genome by Matt Ridley and A History of God by Karen Armstrong. It looks like Before the Big Bang might be a great idea too.
However, I'm noticing a bit of redundancy in your stacks and don't want you to get bored! In the presence of the other books, I would recommend Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale in lieu of The Greatest Show on Earth. (Although, if you're actually not going to read all the other books, I would actually go the other way.) Similarly, I would probably choose either to read the God Delusion or a few of the other books there.
Other recommendations: how about The Red Queen by Matt Ridley, and The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes? These occupy niches not covered by the others.
The popular expositions on cosmology all look supremely awesome, but you should probably choose half of them. Another idea: read just The Fabric of the Cosmos by Greene, and if you love it, go ahead and learn mechanics, vector calculus, Electrodynamics, linear algebra, and Quantum Mechanics! Hmm...on second thought, that might actually take longer than just reading those books :)
Clearly anyone not using Griffiths is a masochist! :)
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-3rd-David-Griffiths/dp/013805326X
Sweet. I think the best curriculum to approach this with, assuming you're in this for the long haul, would be to start with building a good understanding of calculus, cover basic classical mechanics, then cover electricity and magnetism, and finally quantum mechanics. I'm going to leave math and mechanics mostly for someone else, because no textbooks come to mind at the moment. I'll leave you with three books though:
For Math, unless someone else comes up with something better, the bible is Stewart's Calculus
The other two are by the same author:
Griffith's Introduction to Electrodynamics
Griffith's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
I think these are entirely reasonable to read cover to cover, work through problems in, and come out with somewhere near an undergraduate level understanding. Be careful not to rush things. One of the biggest barriers I've run into trying to learn physics independently is to try and approach subjects I don't have the background for yet: it can be a massive waste of time. If you really want to learn physics in its true mathematical form, read the books chapter by chapter, make sure you understand things before moving on, and do problems from the books. I'd recommend buying a copy of the solutions manuals for these books as well. It can also be helpful to look up the website for various courses from any university and reference their problem sets/solutions.
Good luck!
I think PHYS 3007 uses Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics but I'm not entirely sure. Also I'm not sure which edition.
Hard to say. There's a massive number of steps necessary to reach our current technological level -- I could easily see setting up the smelting and manufacturing and mining needed to create a modern smartphone taking lifetimes. And that's not even taking into account the basics of agriculture and agricultural technology -- that, more than anything, determines whether or not civilization is possible.
Edit: At the same time, though, having the knowledge of base principles available might speed things up in some ways. Knowing that an airplane or space travel is even possible, for instance, might ease up or help focus research in those areas.
If you're looking for a good book to read on this subject, I'd suggest The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell.
These books are written specifically looking at that question (links included).
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rebooting-civilization-survivorse28099-how-to-guide-for-restoring-technology-after-the-apocalypse-excerpt/
https://www.amazon.com/Disaster-Diaries-Everything-Necessary-Apocalypse/dp/0143124501/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=EZHSA3SQ06AJPAEBV7M0
My list:
If we're actually in an apocalypse type situation, swap out Lord of the Rings for The Knowledge.
https://www.amazon.ca/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
Idk if this is what your looking for, but its something.
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=0143127047&amp;pd_rd_r=YFA6KVFCT20V9PGWBS19&amp;pd_rd_w=a7KFM&amp;pd_rd_wg=80XiO&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=YFA6KVFCT20V9PGWBS19
What book have you been using? My undergraduate course is using Brown & Churchill, which a lot of people seem to really like, and I've also heard really great things about Tristan Needham's Visual Complex Analysis and I've loved what I've seen of it (mostly just the chapter on winding numbers and the argument principle from a geometric viewpoint).
Congratulations are in order, to you as well as lysa_m, shizzy0 and all the other helpful redditors here. It must feel really great to get over this hurdle!
I just wanted to add a link to the book of Tristram Needham, Visual Complex Analysis. As lysa_m pointed out, you are not the first person in history to find "imaginary" numbers baffling. You can read the first 5 or 6 pages of Needham's book online at the Amazon page above. There he outlines the history of the subject and explains some of the same points made in the comments here.
For complex analysis, Visual Complex Analysis by Needham is often recommended along these lines. I haven't read it though, so I can't vouch for it.
What is the square root of i? If it takes you longer than .5 seconds to figure this in your head, you are blind.
You need to read visual complex analysis by Tristan Needham. This book utterly opened my eyes to what complex number actually are (hint: The correct question is "what is multiplication?"). I used to be mystified by them, as you are. No more. They are as unmystical as anything in math. I also gained a supreme ability to use them, in practice. Read the book, and you will join the ranks of the enlightened.
I recommend you to take a look at Visual Complex Analysis in particular the chapter on differentiation. In the first sections he explains the rationale for this restriction.
If you want to read something with a different voice and very unique style, there's always Nabokov's Pale Fire. For something much more technical, you should consider checking out Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. It was assigned reading in one of my classes along with Strunk & White, and they both really helped me out.
Three steps, in no particular order:
I'll do you one better. I'll give you my damn playbooks.
Elements of Style and Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook. They have the fundamentals that'll take you to the beer league championships and beyond. Once you've got them down, you'll be in excellent shape.
> it means that it's reasonable to question the independence of WaPo's reporting on issues that may impact/involve the CIA.
You didn't stipulate that in your original post. Your post indicated generic reporting on any abstract item without restrictions to matters related to the CIA specifically.
I guess this is a good lesson as to why you should be clear when making a thesis. If you're still having a hard time understanding I recommend this for better writing.
Be sure to study for your AP exams.
> just go ahead and send me a list of the arbitrary little rules you'd like me to follow and I'll do my best.
Sure, try this one.
> If there were fewer classes then maybe I could agree with this, but the problem is that while there are a good number of characters it's for a large variety of classes, meaning you might only have two or three of a class at a time. This makes it riskier to sacrifice one.
I think the choice is usually less severe than that. One consequence of the profusion of classes available is that you'd be very hard-pressed to use all of them in one playthrough. Going back to FE7, Serra and Priscilla each represent the only unit of their class available, and so are quite different by the end of the game, despite starting out very similar. As a result, you'd rarely use both of them under normal circumstances. So while sacrificing one early on may cut you off from a class entirely, it won't really hinder you significantly.
Let's not forget The Elements of Style.
You could check this out.
Every time I'm chatting and trying to say something as fast as possible I press enter/send after every sentence (or single coherent thought). Maybe if you broke it up into multiple lines without adding punctuation and put it in a block quote. Maybe even add time stamps from the chat or other formating IM has. Would make it more legible at least.
edit: You should also get this just because.
Your spelling and grammar need a lot of work, especially around the website. Clear spelling and grammar allow the reader to understand what you are saying. You can have the best story in the world, but if no one can understand it you won't get far.
Working on your spelling will also help to create an air of professionalism. People are entrusting you with their finances when you ask them to buy your comic online. Proper spelling and grammar will help you seem dedicated, trustworthy and serious about your series and its readers.
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White are a nice and easy to read introduction to things you should or should not be doing grammatically. As you write, try to read the sentences out-loud to yourself as a narrator would. Make sure they still make sense and are easy to understand even when spoken out loud. Most desktop office software has spellcheck included, along with most web-browsers. Even if you can't get Word, there's a program called "Open Office" that you can download for free, and it works the same way. See if you can hire a friend to check over your writing for you after you have finished your own edits.
I don't intend to be overly harsh, but I don't want to be disrespectful by mincing words with you either-- the artwork is poorly executed and generic looking. It's not the worst art I've ever seen, but you could be doing a lot more. Anatomy, perspective, composition design, character design and paneling are all things that you need to work on, and it's great that you're getting experience by doing this comic. Just do as much reading as you can (go to the library in addition to looking up tuts online) and get as much practice as you can get. I think that doing something like life drawing would help you a lot with your action poses...Have you seen the different things on the sidebar?
Strunk & White's The Elements of Style
Also, for teaching grammar, I highly recommend Jane Bell Kiester's books. A great deal of my conscious knowledge of grammar (I often joke that I learned proper grammar through osmosis) comes from having to prepare to explain to students why one thing is right and another is wrong.
The basics are usually always covered, just no in the same depth. The course is more about building a mathematical frame work that works for E&M. Maxwells equations should be introduced and a bit of derivations. Conceptually its a tough course, but is been a few years since ive taken it. If you want to practice look up the Griffiths book on electricity and magnetism.
Amazon link:https://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Electrodynamics-4th-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562
(Look for some free downloads)
Serious question: what makes you say these are the "standard route"?
[Griffith on electromagnitism] (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-Edition-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1407283809&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=Griffith+electromagnism)
[Griffith on quantum mechanics] (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-2nd-Edition/dp/0131118927/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1407283809&amp;sr=8-2-fkmr0&amp;keywords=Griffith+electromagnism)
[Jackson on electromagnetism] (http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Electrodynamics-Third-Edition-Jackson/dp/047130932X/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1407283929&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=jackson+electromagnetism)
[Sakurai on quantum mechanics] (http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Quantum-Mechanics-2nd-Edition/dp/0805382917/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=081X3T6SB9XHEZWNTVNB)
This? http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-4th-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417536834&amp;sr=1-1
Probably some combination of Griffiths, Jackson, and Zangwill
Intro. to electrodynamics by Griffiths has a very good chapter on vector calc
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-Edition-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562
Le invito a que se lea este libro:
http://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Protection-Iet-Power-Energy/dp/0863417442
Aunque, para entenderlo, va a tener que leerse este:
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Electric-Circuits-Charles-Alexander/dp/0073380571
Y este:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-4th-David-Griffiths/dp/0321856562
Si le parece que la inversion de tiempo es demasiada, y si me da por un momento el beneficio de la duda, dejeme decirle que no hay rayo en el mundo que pueda causar un incendo cuando el sistema de pararrayos esta bien diseñado y el mantenimiento es adecuado.
Es lo mismo de la red electrica nacional. Un desastre producto de la falta de mantenimiento y planificacion propia de la 5ta republica.
Ningun sistema aguanta la combinacion de incapacidad mas corrupcion.
Si no me cree a mi, preguntele a un ingeniero amigo suyo. Eso si, si no es chavista es preferible. Las posibilidades de que no sea un pirata son mejores.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery
Are you sure about that?
Also have a read of this:
https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Dot-Vision-Future/dp/0345376595
I was raised Christian and went to a fundamentalist highschool. I started questioning things when I realized my faith required me to suspend my rationality. Read some books on the historical accuracy of religious claims. My thought was always, "Well if what all these people say is true, it should hold up to rational scientific inquiry." The more I dug, the more I realized that it never could. I fought and fought with myself. Christianity (especially of the fundamentalist flavor) has this built in mechanism to dissuade disbelief. You are constantly indoctrinated to see any doubt that enters your mind as evil, sinful and to simply "pray the doubt away". I'm sure you know of this. Keep fighting, let reason and logic be your guide.
Some books that helped me on my way to breaking free:
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
I also recommend this youtube series by user Evid3nc3.
Those should give you alot to think about.
Remember the most important thing is to decide for yourself. Question everything and never take something as truth from authority simply because they are an authority. See if it makes sense, find the documented evidence that backs up the claims. The light may hurt at first.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Carl Sagan
Excellent choice. Might I also recommend Pale Blue Dot, also by Sagan. It's my personal favorite of his.
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> No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.
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For electronics, go with The Art of Electronics. Great reviews, very engaging read.
I would recommend the Art of Electronics (or the ARRL Handbook) if you are looking for more of a reference style text. Very thorough, but not something you would want to read front to back.
Assuming you have your circuits basics down, a good text to really start learning how to design circuits would be Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra and Smith which is your undergrad text on introductory analog/digital circuits. This one you can definitely read front to back (but it's big). And then if you really want to get into the thick of things, you could read Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits AKA Grey and Meyer which is your advanced undergrad/graduate text on analog circuits. There are many alternatives to these texts, but these ones are basically bibles.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
buy it
read it
love it
This book is a bit spendy but there is nothing better for the hobbyist. It is the Holy Bible of hobby electronics.
Khan Academy also has a course on Electrical Engineering, but I've not looked at it terribly closely. They generally do a good job at whatever they decide to include though.
If you want the one book to rule them all, I still stand by: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266
Pricey, but it's a classic.
No, I don't, it was just the best ASIC textbook from when I was in grad school. It really helped me understand how transistors work. If you want a good book on discrete components I would recommend The art of electronics. It is written more as a practical guide, with part suggestions for op amps and filters. Like it compares and contrasts different discrete components and will give you suggestions for what op amp to use for different applications. 10/10, would buy again.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541/
I dig it, good work. To help sort out some of the necessary fundamentals, I recommend you pick up a copy of The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill - 3rd edition. This is a staple for anyone that does anything with electronics. A couple of reads through the first handful of chapters and you'll have a good understanding what a bipolar-junction or field-effect transistor is, what a capacitor is, and how a capacitor and frequency relate to one another - and a whole bunch of other stuff too.
Year supply of hot beverage and then you just open the front cover:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1457692246&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=art+of+electronics
Is [this] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521809266/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_1FnRybW1CCK94) the book you're taking about? It sounds like that is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot ☺️
Honestly, the Art of Electronics. There's nothing particularly special about audio on the electronics front. It's just electronics where you care about noise a bit more than average.
I'll sketch you through some important steps, but there's seriously a lot of material here for this kind of approach. Its impractical that I'd hold your hand through the whole process.
The core of the design are the external DACs, so you need to read the datasheet.
This particular chip uses the SPI bus. In general, a bus is a way to communicate with many devices using fewer wires. SPI itself has multiple variants, this is the SPI Daisy Chain variant, which requires 3-pins to communicate with all devices. Page 17 of the documentation has an example.
Wikipedia has another example of how to hook up Although notice: the DAC088S085 does NOT have slave-select pins. So its a bit different than the Wikipedia example. There's also a SYNC pin, which is important for "frames". Basically, you send the SYNC pin low when you're done shifting the data (once you count 64 bits out)
Now SPI just describes how to get the bits to the DAC088S085. It doesn't actually tell you anything beyond that. You need to read the documentation (page 18 and 19). You can see that each DAC088S085 takes a 16-bit command, so if you have four of them... the SPI shift-register would essentially be 64-bits long.
In any case, you need to send 16-bits per DAC multiple times to set each of the individual DACs. So for example, if you wanted to set the 5th DAC on the first chip to 75%, you'd need to shift out: 0x5C00xxxxyyyyzzzz (where xxxx, yyyy, and zzzz are some command for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chip, due to Daisy Chaining).
If you wanted the 10th DAC on the 3rd chip to 25%, you'd need to shift out: 0xwwwwxxxxA400yyyyzzzz (where wwww, yyyy, and zzzz are some command for the 1st, 2nd, and 4th chip, due to Daisy Chaining).
A "full" example, would be if I set the 1st chip 3rd DAC to 25%, the 2nd chip's 8th DAC to 50%, the 3rd chip's 12th DAC to 75%, and the 4th Chip's 1st DAC to 100%: 0x34008800CC001FF0.
To set all 32 DACs to a specific value would require 8 commands like that to be sent through the bus.
As you can see, the problem with a "bus" is that it requires more complicated software to handle. That's the tradeoff: fewer pins, but more complicated to program. In any case, read page 18 and 19 until you understand the numbers above. You can't just talk with the DAC immediately, you need to "think" how to shift the data into the correct DAC. Furthermore, each DAC chip controls eight different internal DACs. To set each DAC requires you to understand the communication protocol, which is described on page 18 and 19.
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The DAC088S085 looks like it also requires an external voltage reference.
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Now, to answer your question about OpAmps, here's a tutorial on the Inverting Amplifier. Once you understand that, go read page 21 of the documentation. As I described in another post, OpAmp design is a 3rd year subject for electrical engineers.
You'll have to understand the concept of negative feedback to really understand why the OpAmp circuit works. Chapter 4 of "The Art of Electronics" is an excellent chapter on OpAmps. Although... the discussion of negative feedback is in Chapter 2. But yeah, read Chapter 2 to understand negative feedback, Chapter 4 to understand the basics of OpAmps. (Chapter 5 for precision use of OpAmps)
And no, I'm not going to teach you OpAmps. But there's plenty of OpAmp material in print. If you don't feel like spending money... go to a library. Most online tutorials are inadequate IMO compared to a good textbook.
While you're at it, read chapter 2 and 3 to study up on some basic transistor designs. I'm gonna bet that your circuit will require a transistor amplifier or two scattered about.
"The Art of Electronics" is widely considered the the single most authoritative book for electronics. There is a companion book "The Art of Electronics Student Manual" that may also prove very useful to you. If you don't have any experience building circuits yet check out this video from EEVBlog "How to setup an Electronics Lab for $300". The easiest way to learn is to learn by doing.
If you haven't started playing with electronics yet, get started you will be glad you did. Never stop learning.
Art of Electronics is pretty comprehensive. Also the unofficial bible for electrical engineers
https://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266?&amp;linkCode=wey&amp;tag=maggicom0e-20
The Art of Electronics is the best all-in-one resource for practical discrete electronics. Add individual device data sheets and plenty of Digikey/Mouser searches with filters and you'll start to get a good feel for general availability of components.
There is a book called The Art of Electronics, 3rd Edition. Get that and also its separately sold Lab book.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266
The book might fulfill your needs.
In that case, I bet you'll want to take the custom route. Have a pair custom made for yourself and you'll never go back to the generic ones. Here are a few resources to get started. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].
110 dollars on amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1427412717&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+Art+of+Electronics
This Book is like the bible for basic electrical engineering topics.
It is a text book, so it's less of a "I'd really like it if someone could just give me all the infos on the electronics" and more of a dense technical reference.
I picked up a UV-82HP from Prime Day but my real catches were Gordo's Extra Class study guide, Carr's Practical Antenna Handbook, and H/H's Art of Electronics.
Here's to spending the rest of my summer in a book.
Although not used to structure my work, my most referenced book is machinery handbook
Machinery's Handbook, 29th https://www.amazon.com/dp/083112900X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fgaNxbR9QGJ6C
Other than that to be honest I just google, most times it's quicker. Of course trust but verify your source.
Modelling the gears may be easier if you have the specification. Find a copy of (http://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-29th-Erik-Oberg/dp/083112900X) and look in the section about gears for the spacing and angle of the gears. I own an old copy that stays on the shelf above my lathe- great reference for when I have to reproduce a broken part.
I saw it followed pretty religiously in aerospace and I'd guess that automotive does too, as I believe SAE was heavily involved with creating them (not positive though).
My current job (industrial components) uses them as a guide and reasonable starting point but is not bound to them.
Other companies I interned at just drilled to whatever size was available and hoped it worked.
It really depends on how critical the components are, how regulated the industry is, and how likely you are to get sued. If a component fails, "I followed best industry standard and practices" holds up a lot better in court than "I guessed and it seemed to work". There are a ton of other tolerance standards and about 1500 pages of Machinery's Handbook is largely devoted to them. It's worth browsing through some time, it's really mind blowing how standardized everything is. They seem simple but there are at least 100 pages devoted purely to dimensions on bolts.
I don't know about a subreddit (and you shouldn't necessarily trust things that people write on the internet about machining) but this is a good place to start:
http://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-29th-Erik-Oberg/dp/083112900X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1414891399&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=machinery%27s+handbook
one, talk to the machinists or the shops you plan to use, they can tell you a lot.
two, pickup a copy of the machinery handbook and a book on design for manufacturing
Did you mean 'Machinist's handbook'? Also, if anyone of you are planning to give it a read, I believe there are legally gray copies that are significantly cheaper on sites like ebay. Cough cough.
You look it up in a table. For example, tables of tolerances for shafts and holes for running fits, interference fits, press fits, et cetera, can be found a book like this.
Here's what you're looking for.
This site also has a lot of great info.
> how much are they?
Yes, you could spend all 9k of that without even blinking. Whatever you spend, expect to double that cost with tooling and things to make your machine do all kinds of different work.
> what are the best manufactures
It's a bit of a mixed bag. If you're looking to buy new, your basic choices are new Asian import or old iron. Standard Modern is Canadian, Emco and Lion is European, and I believe Monarch and Hardringe still make lathes every now and then - all for between $16 and $80k, way out of your price range. CNC won't talk to you unless you're into the 5 digits either.
South Bend is made in Taiwan now, along with Grizzly, Precision Matthews, Baileigh, and others - mostly from the same factories with different paint jobs. They are pretty good machines and can get you started. But the other option is finding an old lathe on Craigslist or through an industrial dealer and getting that going again. A lot of them are still very precise machines that need a little TLC, and if you're diligent in your search, you could end up with an amazing machine for practically scrap metal prices.
> Is it possible to get it down a flight of stairs?
You can get anything down a flight of stairs, whether it's usable at the bottom is the harder question. Unless it's a hobby size lathe, you're not going to be carrying it down. They get really heavy very fast. But with proper precautions, ramps, levers, come-alongs, and chains, people have safely lowered machines weighing half a ton and more into their basements. How much of that you're willing to attempt is on you.
> how easy are they to use
I won't lie, there's a steep learning curve, and you'll never know everything. First step is to get [Machinery's Handbook] (http://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-29th-Erik-Oberg/dp/083112900X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1449544732), look it over, and as confusing as that thing is, it is commonly referred to as THE BIBLE. Otherwise, become a sponge and lurk forums, watch youtube videos, and read up.
If I were you, I'd get as much machine as you can afford, keeping one eye on the used market. Also, I'd look into getting a mill as well, then you'll be practically unstoppable in the shop.
is it the Machinery's Handbook
Finally picked up my copy today.
http://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-29th-Erik-Oberg/dp/083112900X
Everything you will ever need to know!
additionally check:
Stress : http://www.amazon.com/Roarks-Formulas-Stress-Strain-8th/dp/0071742476/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426174330&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=roark%27s
Machinery: http://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-29th-Erik-Oberg/dp/083112900X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426174665&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=Mechanical+Engineering+Handbook
General handbook:http://www.amazon.com/Marks-Standard-Handbook-Mechanical-Engineers/dp/0071428674/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1426174463&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=Mechanical+Handbook
and this source as a list of mech. engineering formulas to calculate and plot:
http://www.fxsolver.com/browse/?cat=4&amp;formulas=on
I'm thinking a copy of machinery's handbook and a calculator?
Link b/c mobile: Machinery's Handbook, Toolbox Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0831130911/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_jqgCybRCR9HDD
Well the best answer is definitely what Tigrinus posted. To add my two cents here are a couple of books I've read that are super interesting, without being textbooks:
The essential engineer
Why things break
Machinery's handbook
Machinery's handbook is pretty much the bible for Mechanical Engineers. It covers everything from materials sciences to types of measurements to machining and component sizing.
If you want to learn the theory then check out this book. You can probably find an older edition with most of the content for cheaper. Just know that most mechanical engineering literature is going to run you through a bunch of complicated equations and complex theory as opposed to just explaining how something works.
Try this, great hydraulics book
https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Reference-Handbook-Engineering-Designers/dp/B000RI8DB8
Welding...
https://www.amazon.com/Metals-How-Weld-Them-Jefferson/dp/B0007DVQEE/ref=asc_df_B0007DVQEE/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=312400961658&amp;hvpos=1o3&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=6409473804414846933&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=m&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9033029&amp;hvtargid=aud-799727667774:pla-569400578544&amp;psc=1
And this.....
https://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-Toolbox-Erik-Oberg/dp/0831130911/ref=asc_df_0831130911/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=312031082787&amp;hvpos=1o1&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=10037741331668863948&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=m&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9033029&amp;hvtargid=aud-799727667774:pla-434669343809&amp;psc=1
Look around for cheaper options but these three books are a good start
Old Reliable, the Machinery's Handbook should have a good deal of information for speeds/feeds on generic cutting operations and materials.
https://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-Toolbox-Erik-Oberg/dp/0831130911
https://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-Toolbox-Erik-Oberg/dp/0831130911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549374177&sr=8-1&keywords=machinery%27+handbook like the actual machinery handbook?
Pick up the Machinerys Hand Book or machinists bible as its known. It has detailed breakdown of the SAE/AISI numbers and their makeup.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0831130911/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527444719&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=machinist+handbook+30th+edition&dpPl=1&dpID=51d74LVeK7L&ref=plSrch
There's definitely something to be said about being self-employed. If you can pull it off, being your own boss is probably pretty liberating. I was actually having a conversation with my roommate last night about work and money, etc. He graduated college a few months back with a 4-year degree and now he's making $30k/year at a job he already hates after working there for a month. It does suck to feel like a pawn of the system - you work for pennies while other people profit immensely off of your productivity. So going freelance might ameliorate that problem for you.
In regards to printing PCBs, yeah, that's electrical engineering. There's a book my EE friend made me buy that you might find useful for that endeavor: Practical Electronics for Inventors. Though that link to American Amazon might not be the best based on your usage of the word "flat." I've been working my way through a different one - Essentials of Computing Systems, which I've found pretty cool. Starting with NAND gates (in a hardware simulator) it has you build up a fully functional computer, which you then write software for. Pretty cool stuff. For context I'm a 23 year old chemical engineering graduate who's 2 years into a 7 year MD/PhD program. So lots of tests left to take and reports to write for me at least.
Practical Electronics for Inventors covers the fundamentals of electronics, ranging from Ohm's law and simple circuit analysis, to guides on selecting components and the use of microcontrollers. It was a lifesaver during the first year of my Bsc in electrical engineering, and I still find it handy.
Luckily it's never been easier to start learning electronics. I know you want hands-on experience but you gotta learn some theory first - I'd recommend a book like Practical Electronics for Inventors to learn the basics (some people swear by The Art of Electronics but it is not a beginners book, rather more of a intermediate-advanced reference). Then something like the Arduino Starter Pack that will start you on the path to building circuits!
Along the way, watching electronics tutorials and teardowns on youtube, and taking apart stuff to see how it works would also really help.
Scherz's Practical electronics for inventors is a good intro level book that includes theory at an understandable level and lots of practical stuff. The early editions had a lot of mistakes but presumably by now it's better edited
https://smile.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541/
Assuming you’re a beginner, and are starting with little to no knowledge:
I bought the 3rd edition of the book called “Practical Electronics for Inventors” by Scherz and Monk it starts from the basics and you slowly build more and more complex and practical circuits.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259587541/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_eTs2BbXN9S1DN
Another fun on by Monk is “The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Defend Your Base with Simple Circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593276672/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_XVs2BbYMVJT5N
If you are looking for something more theory based (I wouldn’t recommend initially unless you’re just curious) there’s a whole slew of texts books depending on what exactly you’re interested in you can pick up for cheap at a used book store or on amazon.
Remember build slowly in the beginning until you get a good grasp on the content and have fun. Diving in too deep to quickly can overwhelm and kill morale.
Happy learning!
It's a fun hobby. Biggest learning curve is learning how to code. I didnt know a thing when I first started but the arduino community (link below) is really helpful with the process. They will even go over code you've written if your having issues.
Arduino community forum:
https://forum.arduino.cc
Book for learning arduino program language:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1430247762/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_jqgLBbP544HBT
A good starter kit. Comes with alot of goodies like the program used to write the code and compile it, the arduino itself, super sonic sensor, DC motors to name a few as well as data sheets for each piece:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EWNUUUA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_krgLBbN85GPHF
Book recommended to me that helps with the more complex builds: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259587541/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_UrgLBb7STEDSA
My first project I made/wrote was to make a couple LEDs blink in specific intervals. May not seem like much but like I said, biggest learning curve is learning to program the arduino itself.
Good luck
PEI is excellent... https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourth-Scherz/dp/1259587541/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
If you're looking for a book to get started, I'd highly recommend Practical Electronics for Inventors. It's not arduino specific, but there is a whole chapter on microcontrollers.
I was at your stage not long ago and had the same concern. Then I stumble on this book, available in electronic version that start you at the very begining and explain very well the basic of electronic, each excercise add a little bit more complexity till you reach arduino stuff.
http://www.makershed.com/products/make-electronics-2ed
And
http://www.makershed.com/products/make-more-electronics
And a good reference book:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1259587541/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1259587541
> You seem to be forgetting the minor point of agriculture failing -- or is that no longer "your point"?
How is this not willfully obtuse, if not an outright misrepresentation?
I was the one suggesting that more northerly locations would be better situated to avoid temperatures driven to 45°C+, and you responded by pointing out that even Moscow "gets heatwaves" too.
I then demonstrated that Moscow has never experienced temperatures in the 40s. Ever.
A perfectly relevant refutation of your generalised exaggeration. That's all.
> water is going to vanish, everywhere?
Obviously not what I'm saying.
Some won't get enough, and some will get far too much. And some will even get just the right amount for some time - but at some point in a collapsing biosphere, not reliably enough in any one place to ensure sufficient crop survival and reliable harvesting to make agriculture viable.
No, I don't have a crystal ball, and can't tell you exactly where that point will be, but this extinction event is unfolding with unprecedented speed, and we are still accelerating it, so I really don't believe that ignoring uncomfortably pessimistic sources is a wise strategy.
> You're now blaming me for not engaging in threads I wasn't involved in?
Sorry, I was getting it confused with the other thread we're discussing similar matters in. I have to do all this on a crappy, broken smartphone since I don't use a computer, so no split-screen windows/advanced clipboard functionality/fancy keyboard for me.
It was referenced in this thread, not the other one.
> On the contrary, I've pointed out the "links" (really one link posted multiple times)
Since /u/Goochymayn posted the link to the projected effects here, I have posted a dozen different links that weren't this one in this thread.
> Man, you people are obsessed with this one website
Far from it, though a little stubborn in trying to encourage some sort of engagement with it on your part - it's sort of the opposite of cherry picking, to go on blithely claiming that it doesn't say what it does, and that the whole thing's just too silly to even acknowledge.
I read many websites, have read the book this summarises by Mark Lunas (FWIW, it won the 2008 Royal Society Book Prize and was turned into a National Geographic TV series, so it's not just some crappy little blog.)
And I agree it would be better if the summary had hyperlinked references. I don't post it here much/ever myself, precisely because of the lack of easy to follow hyperlinks to make it easier for people to check sources online. The book is better (books are always better than this internet rubbish.)
OK, you don't recognise it or any of its sources (though they've been bandied around here often enough,) - I will add some more links tomorrow when I've had some sleep, though it will be at the expense of speedily responding to your other posts (lots of busy-ness ATM.) I will come to them when time allows.
I accept that the descriptions of the effects at each temperature band may not be accurate. Which is why it would be interesting and useful to discuss what it actually predicts, and how much, if any merit there is to their arguments (it would be even better to discuss the book, but that's less feasible online in the temporary conversation cloud that is Reddit, given how few people have probably read it.)
It's less productive in the extreme, to only ever see it analysed by McPhersonite fanboys, too busy obsessing about the doom to look at it with a critical eye. But if they are accurate, then farming will self-evidently NOT be possible, because we will all be too extinct to practice it.
Other interesting topics exist of course, but they're pretty academic if we're looking anything like +7°C by the end of the century.
That too is an interesting topic in itself, and one I would like to see more people engaging in disputing, rather than just avoiding having to consider it at all on the one hand, or obsessively and unproductively doom-mongering about on the other.
They both seem like less productive (if understandably human) approaches.
I find it convincing enough to have committed to taking the measures I have anyway, though I try to keep an open mind.
> doesn't say what they claim it does. It literally doesn't say it.
It doesn't say exactly QUOTE farming will not be possible UNQUOTE, but FFS, it's predicting the sky effectively catching fire because of the methane content, superstorms at least as extreme as the ones that caused the Permian-Triassic extinction, with ""super-hurricanes” hitting the coasts [that] would have triggered flash floods that no living thing could have survived."
It says: "That episode was the worst ever endured by life on Earth, the closest the planet has come to ending up a dead and desolate rock in space.” On land, the only winners were fungi that flourished on dying trees and shrubs."
And you think agriculture will be possible in this?
It is true, this is at 5+°C, but they also state "Chance of avoiding five degrees of global warming: negligible if the rise reaches four degrees and releases trapped methane from the sea bed."
You've made no effort to refute any of this - you just refuse to engage with this source.
It explains the inexorable runaway temperature effect that will be (possibly has already been,) initiated, and so 4°/5°/6°/7°/+ is largely irrelevant - it's going up, up, up.
And the methane is already being released in observably huge quantities already at <1.5°C, so this does not look so unlikely that it's sensible to simply dismiss it to me, considering the fucktons of the stuff there is down there.
But hey, you've got potatoes and trees, so you'll be fine.
I (and probably other less optimistically- inclined folk here,) would be really interested in knowing why you, or other more optimistic folk, think this is not going to happen.
IF (and I freely admit that is not certain, but if) we're looking at anything like these projections coming to pass this century, then at some point this century, agriculture WILL fail.
And IF the runaway effect from all these tipping points we're burning through is real, then over some timespan, that's inevitable.
> A little emotional, aren’t we? The part where "the world" = "modern civilization"?
No. The part where everything bigger than a lystrosaur, including very probably humanity, is rendered extinct.
And actually I don't get emotional about it - I'm past that.
I get stubborn, and start building an Ark.
> The article they keep linking to doesn't say what they claim it does.
It claims unsurvivable, extinction-level conditions are coming, so yes - it does say what they claim (whether or not it's well-founded - that is a different argument. One you seem unwilling to engage in.)
> I've said that multiple times to them. They have no response for me. And neither will you, I expect. Read the goddamn article.
I have. And I can understand what it's saying. I'd like a reason to disbelieve it, but you're evidently unable to provide one.
I recommend reading the book (I ought to buy another one - lent it out, and never got it back.)
I haven't read it yet, but Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas is on my wish list.
> The global temperature is increasing wildly
Define wildly. Since 1975 it's increased by an average of about .15 to .2 ^o C per decade and it's increased about 0.8^o C overall since 1880, with about 2/3 of that coming since 1975. It's probably increasing by a bit more than that now because global emissions keep increasing.
> in a few years many heavily populated areas will exceed "wet bulb" temperature, meaning they will become so hot that it would be impossible for human life to exist there
That doesn't seem to fit Wikipedia's definition of wet-bulb temperature, although I'll admit to being very unfamiliar with the term; do you know in what context McPherson used it?
It would help to know exactly what McPherson's temperature projections are. To me, the notion that the usual projections could render places currently supporting hundreds of millions of people uninhabitable within the next few years, or even decades, is tough to believe without hard numbers to back it up.
If you're curious for other sources, my impressions are based roughly on Six Degrees, by Mark Lynas and Introduction to Modern Climate Change, by Andrew Dessler. I think climate change is definitely capable of causing our extinction eventually, but it would require a lot of inaction on our part, and it would still take several centuries at least.
It's a book.
Read a book like that a few years ago. Six Degrees. It's about global warming and its likely effects.
Watch this video clip, based on actual facts.
My top book recommendation:
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
It paints a picture in a real nice way and serves as a good guide for thinking about various degrees.
As mentioned by /u/extinction6 watch Kevin Anderson.
Here are a few links that I've found interesting or useful.
this one is an animation of the decline of arctic sea ice over the last couple decades:
Ice Dream by Andy Robinson
The Representative Concentration Pathways- possible future greenhouse gas concentrations depending on what emissions path humanity takes, adopted for the IPCC 5th assesment report in 2014.
How the global average temperature is expected to rise based on the chosen RCP's.
global temperature rise projections for different emissions scenarios
Here is what those temperature rises translate into in the real world-
a degree by degree explanation of what will happen when the earth warms a very short synopsis of some of the effects we may expect in the coming yeara as global average temperatures rise. More detail can be found in the book,
Six Degrees- Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
Antarctic sea ice has also begun to collapse in the last few months:
global sea ice area
From Climate Code Red, an article that contends there is no "carbon budget" left to limit warming to 1.5C under sensible assumptions of risk and potential damage-
Unravelling the myth of a "carbon budget" for 1.5C
Kevin Anderson argues in this presentationthat limiting warming to below 2C consistent with global fairness requires immediate and deep cuts in emissions in the developed world consistent with a revolutionary energy transformation.
Australians for Coal a insightful look at their corporate climate policy update.
If you have a chance, checkout the book Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet takes an interesting look not only at what happens at four degrees, but also temperatures lower and higher. Essentially the book starts low and grows to the scenario of what would happen when we've reached six degrees by looking at evidence published in respectable journals such as Science and Nature
It is three items
FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, 3rd Ed https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591263336/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_hwvwDbHC762S7
Industrial Discipline-Specific Review for the FE/EIT Exam, 2nd Ed https://www.amazon.com/dp/159126068X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LwvwDbC81ZMYC
FE Industrial and Systems Practice Exam https://www.amazon.com/dp/1932613846/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_5wvwDbYTTK6W5
This may not be a perfect suggestion, but have you considered study materials for the field-specific FE test?
This study guide exists, and the testing company NCEES offers a PDF of the official reference guide (mostly equations, very surface level) for free here.
I don't know whether these would cover everything to the level of detail you want. However, they might be a good way to identify things you're rusty on so you can go back to your textbooks/class notes for more detail.
The EIT/FE is not a hard test. But, it is a test of fundamentals, most of which you haven't used / forgotten in the past eight years. As I tell my students: take the test before you graduate, because your brain is like a sieve, and once you stop doing homework, that knowledge slowly seeps out.
As you're coming to it several years out my advice is to start by buying yourself one of those EIT prep books and working problems. The Lindeburg book seems popular. Figure out what you know and what you've forgotten.
Then check your local colleges that have CE programs to see if they offer FE prep courses. Ours does, it's run by Chi Epsilon (the CE honor society), starts about 8 weeks before the test and they get professors to come in on the weekends to review. Ours charges a very nominal fee (like $10 per session) and student feedback is quite positive. So if you have a CE program near, contact the department office and see if they have something similar.
Buy the FE reference manual that NCEES sells. As others have said, the bulk of the material you need to know will be in there. Know where things are found ahead of time.
Figure out which afternoon test you're taking -- CE or Other disciplines (formerly called general). As you're 8 years out, CE is probably the answer for you.
The real key is to know that you're not going to know everything and the test ultimately is designed to test how well you take tests. Know what you know very well, re-learn the familiar stuff so you are passable, and don't spend a whole lot of time on stuff you've completely forgotten or hated. Make sure you know your math, physics and statics and you're on your way.
Girlsplaywow is a jerk - I say that yet I don't mean it at all. Anyone who gifts to this level can in no way be a jerk. Not to mention all the other nice stuff you mentioned.
I am torn between linking work or play. One of life's ultimate dilemmas. So with that in mind if I am fortunate enough to win this, Girlsplaywow you get to decide as you are the contest holder. Work or play
>Contains information for the morning/afternoon session
morning session means the general one and afternoon means specific one right? so if i get the one you are recommending, would i have any need for this??
http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336#reader_1591263336
also that book is expensive........
would just using my school textbooks be good enough?
I highly recommend this book for preparing for the FE. I only started studying about 3 weeks prior to the exam and this book is probably the reason I passed.
http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331485841&amp;sr=8-1 this is the one I'm using now
http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415862515&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=fe+exam+electrical
Fresh graduate, I have a job and am looking for an apartment but something else that's been on my mind is the FE exam.
What's the best way to prepare for it assuming I get this textbook/manual
FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam
It's by the same author that someone recommended to get for the pe exam ( Michael lindburg or something, sorry on my phone), that guy must know his stuff
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591263336/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_YmEHub11SE3JX
The Yellow Book
Also, second to Mountebank. From what I've heard it helps a ton to be familiar with the reference book and to be familiar with whatever calculator you plan to use. It will save you a buttload of time knowing where to find what you're looking for as opposed to flipping through a million pages trying to find a single equation.
I can't answer everything, but I'm a student in WA and my nearest test center is in OR. I registered for the WA board, and it was no problem to schedule in OR.
For review books, I got this guy: http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336
A quick flip through makes it seem like it will be well worth my while.
The thing is since the FE covers general topics as well (calculus, physics, statics, ethics, etc), the PE book won't cover any of it.
I recommending getting this book.
http://www.amazon.com/Review-Manual-Preparation-Fundamentals-Engineering/dp/1591263336
I did practice problems with that and read the chapters and I felt the test was super easy.
The FE is actually pretty easy with like a 75% pass rate. I took the test two years after graduation with about two weeks of studying and passed (mechanical engineer with a strong gpa).
You HAVE to get the official reference manual. You get this in the actual test and the more you are familiar with it the easier it is to find the relevant equations. That's like half the test--plugging numbers into the relevant equation. I used this review book and felt it did a good job.
Good luck and don't sweat it. Study through the main sections and make sure you understand basic math and physics.
This is what I used when I took the exam last year. I loaned that same book to a couple of friends who took the exam this year, and they both passed. To be honest, it's overkill, as not everything in there will be on the current exams, but that coupled with the books available from NCEES will let you pick and choose the sections you need to study.
I used Lindeburg's book.
In retrospect, it wasn't terribly useful except for an ego boost in some topics and really identifying what I was weak in. That being said, if you're doing reasonably well in school you should be fine for the FE. What I would do is review for your discipline specific exam. I didn't cover much for mine in school (Mechanical; didn't learn much, if any, HVAC stuff at school).
The only resource I used at the time I took it was the ''FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam'' - however, I also went through my school notes on the relevant subjects and did a ton of practice problems. Disclaimer, I took this thing back in 2013.
FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam is what you'll want. It's pretty extensive and should allow anyone to pass.
Being out of school for three years means you should definitely give it a thorough read. For someone fresh out of school, it's not necessary. You'll pick it back up quick for sure though.
Also pocket Ref by thomas glover is pretty awesome.
https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=asc_df_1885071620/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=312155960128&amp;hvpos=1o1&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=7606091038358854448&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9010831&amp;hvtargid=pla-433878207965&amp;psc=1
i think this is it - https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=EPS8X0ZC6VJ0YP5RHYY9
All that shit you thought you knew but forgot.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1885071620/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;colid=1G3R1688Z123R&amp;coliid=I2KRMM0F5CI5CS
It's litteraly titled the "Pocket Ref". Le Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-Edition-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620
Because handy.
http://www.amazon.com/Gully-Dwarves-Lost-Histories-Book-ebook/dp/B00AGV8YFG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1409864581&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+gully+dwarves
Because awesome.
http://www.amazon.com/Herald-Sundering-Book-VI-ebook/dp/B00H6J6KQQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1409864870&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=sundering+forgotten+realms
Because reading it at the moment and couldn't think of another.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1885071620/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;colid=XZEYEJ53UE4L&amp;coliid=IY48R5U5R47L0
I would get a book like this: Pocket Ref 4th Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1885071620/
It has all kinds of info in a small form factor.
Also some travel chopsticks or utensils.
I have one of these in the car, at home, and at my workshop
Pocket Ref
https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493922590&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=pocket+ref
Carpentry and Construction, 3rd edition by John L. Feirer and Gilbert R. Hutchings - Amazon link
Cabinetmaking and Millwork also by John L. Fairer Amazon link
Pocket Reference, 4rth edition by Thomas Glover - Amazon link, Reddit thread
All books will be instantly obvious as to why they are valuable when you first open them up and look inside. Do you want to know the books your favorite YouTuber/teacher would likely have had to learn to start their woodworking paths? These were them.
Pocket Ref by Thomas Glover (Amazon link)
Basically a small handbook of all kinds of useful reference data, especially engineering and automotive related (need to calculate the pressure drop of a given fluid through a pipe of a given diameter flowing at a given speed? Need to re-jet a carburetor? Determine the maximum safe loading of a soft pine floor vs. an oak floor?) in addition to miscellaneous data (zip codes, how to perform CPR on babies and small animals, major poison and burn centers for your region of the US, names of various groups of animals like hamsters and crows). I got these as gifts for my groomsmen, since I prefer to give "useful" items like tools and books.
For basic (non-electronic) electrical stuff, I've heard good thing about the Navy's training materials, but I haven't read it myself.
For electronic circuits, I recommend The Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill. They just came out with a new version that's apparently more focused on modern digital circuitry (microcontrollers). This is the book that I used when I was learning analog circuits; it gives good descriptions of things like resistance/reactance/impedance, LCR circuits, transistors, oscillators, op-amps and other amplifiers, as well as RF circuits. I think my edition also covered some 7400 series logic and ancient microcontrollers.
Yeah I remember having trouble with insomnia as early as 6 years old. Meditation hasn't really helped. Melatonin helps or skullcap tea. Lately what has been helping me sleep well is smoking a little bit of cannabis and reading a random chapter in the Pocket Ref
In rough order, starting from the upper left corner:
The wallet has enough stuff in it to do an entirely separate post.
I'm sure this isn't what you're talking about, but it immediately reminded me of the pocket ref they seem to go for about 8 dollars and you can pick them up at most hardware stores, for anyone interested in this type of thing.
The Electronics Pocket Handbook:
http://www.amazon.ca/Electronics-Pocket-Handbook-3rd-Edition/dp/0137841906
Handy reference I keep at work. Only issue I have with the book is the space wasted on an extremly outdated "How to use a computer" section.
I also have a copy of the Pocket Reference at my desk.
http://www.amazon.ca/Pocket-Reference-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1419024326&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=pocket+ref
There you go: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1885071620
This is the book used to teach students entering into carpentry and building construction where I'm at in the US:
http://www.amazon.com/Carpentry-Building-Construction-John-Feirer/dp/0696110040
It not only tells you how but why things are built the way they are. It gives you a primer on not only carpentry and construction but also the tools used in the trades, how to manage construction schedules (when to have electricians, plumbers, finish carpenters, etc. scheduled to show up) and how to manage construction cost (when to use engineered lumber and when not to, how to plant landscaping to mitigate heating and cooling costs, how to position the build on the lot you have to best take advantage of Sun, wind, and on and on).
It's aim is to take a complete novice and provide them with enough knowledge to start in the construction trades. Having said that, it is a bit dated so a supplimentary book with updates on the things that have changed would be a good idea to get in addition to this one. Having said that, if there is one book the vast majority of carpenters and builders in the US have read, this is the one.
PS
I'd also get this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1885071620/
What kind of science? If they lean toward engineering, you could consider the Pocket Ref. It's a small and extremely concise manual on how to do anything. Also, it's the most popular book on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-Edition-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620
Personally, I study Computer Science and I love science toys. http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/
How about a Pocket Ref?
Got mine on Amazon. You might have to ask someone who works in your local book store where it'd be, or have them look it up.
Whiskey (either scotch or bourbon, but nothing expensive in case of theft or confiscation)
Various leatherman sizes (mostly for the different sized screwdrivers and knife variety)
Jerky (high in calories and doesn't go bad)
A Pocket Ref (http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-Edition-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y)
Pretty much everything. See here for a bit more info. Plenty of other places sell it though. You can find it on the checkout counter of many hardware stores.
Excellent, thanks dude! I think I might actually have a copy of that FM kicking around somewhere, but who knows where it's at, so maybe it'd not a bad idea for me to pick up another. Also, if we're sharing good sources of info, look into picking up a copy of Thomas Glover's "Pocket Ref", it's tiny enough to keep in your bag, and I promise once you flip through the pages, you'll know what I mean when I say it's impossible to suggest that buying it was a mistake.
I up-voted just for the title. I would also agree in that Griffith's book Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics is a good choice. I did an REU in Nuclear Physics, and this book was really helpful to me. Here is a link.
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Elementary-Particles-David-Griffiths/dp/3527406018/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1304069903&amp;sr=1-1
Introduction to Elementary Particles by David Griffiths
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Elementary-Particles-David-Griffiths/dp/3527406018/
Oh I thought we were talking about poetry. Try this one then.
Well, I don't mind reading a few equations. My former institute would be ashamed of me if I couldn't even do that.
Let me clarify. By "non-mathematical", I don't want to read pages and pages of derivations, justifications, and proofs. I want to get a book with excellent qualitative descriptions of the particles, their functions, the stories behind their discoveries, experimental descriptions of the verification of each one, and how they interact with each other.
I've been looking at these few titles:
http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Model-Primer-Cliff-Burgess/dp/0521860369
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Standard-Model-Particle-Physics/dp/0521852498/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342797161&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=standard+model
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Elementary-Particles-David-Griffiths/dp/3527406018/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b
Do you any experience with these few?
By the way, if you want to read up on particle physics, give this book a try. It's very accessible; Griffiths is a great author of physics texts.
Introduction to Elementary Particles by David Griffiths is a common standard introductory book that is self-contained (up to a reasonable degree) and fairly basic still covering most of the important topics for an intro.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3527406018/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/182-8847591-2278642
Pocket reference?
Pocket Ref 4th Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1885071620/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_2e6Iub1T361AJ
Just buy this.
I'll have to check that book out, and highly recommend Metzinger's The Ego Tunnel in turn.
In the context of #2 I often think about Hoftadter's I Am a Strange Loop and tangled hiearchies.
It seems like awareness arises when systems that integrate internal and external processing reach a certain amount of complexity.
Not really answering your question, but if you want some reading on trajectory and orbital mechanics, pick up a copy of this book. I skimmed it for an internship one summer and learned a ton. https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610
If you want physical books (personally, I much prefer them to electronic copies despite being a millennial), check out Dover books on Amazon. They publish old textbooks for $10-$20, so you can pick up a bunch for a lot less than you would usually spend on a single textbook. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, for example, is an old U.S. Air Force Academy textbook that will teach you a lot of basic rocket science and orbital mechanics.
Some less mathy but still very interesting and semi-technical options are How Apollo Flew to the Moon and To Orbit and Back Again.
It doesn't work like that. Go play Orbiter or Kerbal Space Program if you want a glimpse of the physics behind it, but you can't just "slingshot" it out into the abyss. You want to change something's velocity from low Earth orbit? You're going to need fuel.
Alternatively, you can get the Fundamentals of Astrodynamics for about fifteen bucks, but you need to know some calculus.
Thanks for your thoughts. Please read this.
Congrats. As an unemployed redditor searching desperately, it's good to know that even somebody with such little attention to grammar can get a job.
If you used capital letters as superfluously as you have above, and then went on to misuse apostrophes to indicate plural nouns in the same words, then there must be hope for a pseudo-grammar nazi such as myself.
In closing, good luck, godspeed, and if you happen to get the jobs for which you're interviewing and they involve writing anything ever, check out this book.
...And if you don't get the job, care to pass on the employer's info?
If you are interested in buying the set,
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=14NGF7FFK7YMCE5X9HFC
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=14NGF7FFK7YMCE5X9HFC
about $170 for the set
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957
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> for under $100
What a bargain!
Or you could buy this for <$12 and work on expanding the human(and all life on earth) frontier beyond one small fragile planet already guaranteed death by immolation(no matter how many furry bunnies you eat or don't eat)?
Oh? First year EE student? That's cute. Go buy a copy of this book right now, and don't wait 'til after completing a BS to brush over important concepts. This was singlehandedly more comprehensive than most of my individual courses.