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lostjake said:   delzy said:   lostjake said:   delzy said:   You'd be a lot better off learning a collection of basic circuits than this useless theory that has almost zero application in the RW. Maybe you could just use it so you're not embarrassed by your public school education at cocktail parties.

Actually circuits has pretty good RW applications, such as wiring your house lights in parallel or series, diagnosing where a problem might be in a line (both AC and DC). Maybe you should take the class to prove me wrong.I will flat out guarantee you that the skills you mention are not taught in basic EE class. Perhaps you are confusing this class with and electrician apprenticeship. BTW, I have an engineering degree, do you?

I do, also have my PE in power. Thanks for your flat out guarantee thou

I've got an MSEE. IIRC, series and parallel circuits were covered right at the beginning of the very first EE classes. We started out with pure resistive circuits (like house wiring) and used linear superposition of mesh and node analysis to convert them into simpler Norton and Thevenin equivalents. The most mathematically challenging part was using the Laplace transform to convert systems of integro-differential equations from RCL circuits, into simpler algebraic equations that could be solved in the Laplace domain and then transformed back into solutions in the time domain.

I believe the next class was where we used Fourier transforms in AC circuit analysis; but both classes were in the same year. I think the second class was also where we were introduced to the "Wye" and "Delta" equivalents for analysis of three-phase power circuits.

Does that jibe with your recollection lostjake?

(If you were considering taking the class and didn't understand anything I said: then don't worry about it. This is the class where I learned about it. The Laplace and Fourier transforms are actually easy to use and they make your (EE) life sooooo much simpler.)

delzy said:   XYNZ said:   lostjake said:   delzy said:   lostjake said:   delzy said:   You'd be a lot better off learning a collection of basic circuits than this useless theory that has almost zero application in the RW. Maybe you could just use it so you're not embarrassed by your public school education at cocktail parties.

Actually circuits has pretty good RW applications, such as wiring your house lights in parallel or series, diagnosing where a problem might be in a line (both AC and DC). Maybe you should take the class to prove me wrong.I will flat out guarantee you that the skills you mention are not taught in basic EE class. Perhaps you are confusing this class with and electrician apprenticeship. BTW, I have an engineering degree, do you?

I do, also have my PE in power. Thanks for your flat out guarantee thou

I've got an MSEE. IIRC, series and parallel circuits were covered right at the beginning of the very first EE classes. We started out with pure resistive circuits (like house wiring) and used linear superposition of mesh and node analysis to convert them into simpler Norton and Thevenin equivalents. The most mathematically challenging part was using the Laplace transform to convert systems of integro-differential equations from RCL circuits, into simpler algebraic equations that could be solved in the Laplace domain and then transformed back into solutions in the time domain.

I believe the next class was where we used Fourier transforms in AC circuit analysis; but both classes were in the same year. I think the second class was also where we were introduced to the "Wye" and "Delta" equivalents for analysis of three-phase power circuits.

Does that jibe with your recollection lostjake?Can you come buy and rewire my garage?

I could, but I won't for the same reason that I won't correct your most BASIC spelling mistakes.

delzy said:   XYNZ said:   I could, but I won't for the same reason that I won't correct your most BASIC spelling mistakes.Don't mistake my haphazard grammatical errors for ignorance. I'd run circles around you on an episode of Jeopardy. BTW, BASIC spelling mistakes are correctly described as syntax errors... duh.

Well you're demonstrating a great deal of ignorance with respect to syntax errors. Syntax errors are errors of BASIC grammatical structure, not errors in spelling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax

In linguistics, syntax........ is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages

This definition of a syntax error predates programming languages; it was co-opted by computer science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_%28programming_languages%29

The syntax of a language describes the FORM of a valid program, but does not provide any information about the meaning of the program or the results of executing that program.

So this properly spelled. sentence contains; numerous syntactical errors,

This sentence has a spelling error; but there aren't any syntactical errors hear.

XYNZ, I was just making a joke about Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Language, but yes you are correct. Were you that guy in grade school who couldn't keep his ass in the chair and raise his hand at the same time?

I guess I will have to refresh my calculos, but I finally pulled the triger.
Thanks OP.

Oh God I remember this course...It wasn't as bad as others, but MIT really gets hardcore with this stuff. It definitely requires more than just a casual studying effort (at least for us mere mortals). I originally wanted to be a robotics engineer, but MIT beat that out of me mercilessly.

=+= excited

keirmeister said:   Oh God I remember this course...It wasn't as bad as others, but MIT really gets hardcore with this stuff. It definitely requires more than just a casual studying effort (at least for us mere mortals). I originally wanted to be a robotics engineer, but MIT beat that out of me mercilessly.
HS Cousin: (Lamenting about being assigned 30 homework problems) They must've assigned you a gazillion problems as homework at MIT.
Me: Well, no. Most classes only had about 2-4 homework problems a week...
Cousin: That's it?!? That's easy!
Me: but each problem took 2-8 hours to solve.
Cousin: ...

After a few months of this sort of engineering homework, you realize that all the homework problems you were given in high school were specifically picked out and set up to be easy to solve.

An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell
He looked the devil in the eye, and said "You're looking well"
The devil looked right back at him, and said "Why visit me -
You've been through Hell already; you went to MIT!"

I am. Been pretty fun. Will take the midterm tonight.

Sorry I missed (most of) this but I'm going to go ahead and do the work anyway. I'm an EE (semi designer) but it's always good to refresh