So last Friday, after a hard week at the office, I went over to the Opus Bar on campus to enjoy some evening music. And, because I wished to consume neither alcohol (I had to drive home) nor caffeine (I didn’t want to stay up till midnight), I bought a hot chocolate.
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Simple things updated
With reference to my previous entry, come to think of it, a seismograph is pretty well a mass on a spring. And a car suspension system isn’t much more glorified either.
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This question arises from the 3rd year dynamics paper I’m teaching at the moment. How come in lectures we only ever cover simple examples of things (in the context of this paper, moving things), like a mass bouncing on a spring, rather than realistic examples, like a washing machine or aircraft engine. It’s a fair […]
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Our second semester of the year started on Monday, and I have begun teaching a course on dynamics of machines, for the first time. (That is, it’s the first time I have taught it). Although I’m familiar with a lot of the material, there are bits of the course that are new to me, as […]
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