Just working on some flow calculations for a hydro project and came across this lovely paragraph:
Fun, eh? You do realize this is simply showing the flow of a fluid from a starting point, right? ;)
I've had to translate more than one of these white papers into layman's terms for potential customers lately... Bleh.
Hmm... That reminded me that I had this bit of math humor: :D
"Terrorist apprehended"
At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to
be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight
while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule,
and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft said he
believes the man is a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is
being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult,", Ashcroft said. "They desire average
solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a
search of absolute value. They use secret code names like "x" and "y"
and refer to themselves as "unknowns", but we have determined they
belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates
in every country.
"As the Greek philanderer Iso sceles used to say, there are 3 sides to
every triangle," Ashcroft declared.
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had
wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have
given us more fingers and toes.
"I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is
intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to
disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to
inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said,
adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root,
make our point, and draw the line."
President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the
potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never
before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to
factor-in random facts of vertex."
Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my
ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they
continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse
tightens around their necks."
CraigBert — Nov 26, 2010Just working on some flow calculations for a hydro project and came across this lovely paragraph:
Fun, eh? You do realize this is simply showing the flow of a fluid from a starting point, right? ;)
I've had to translate more than one of these white papers into layman's terms for potential customers lately... Bleh.
I would guess that shows how it will probably flow in a given space - with a probabililty distrubution showing the variance !!!
Or it's a party notification for a bunch of fraternity houses... ;D
So do you understand that maths - really ?
Mapping into the z plane - complex numbers. - remember that from fluid dynamics - transform and aerofoi section into a circle - solve in the z plane and translate the solution back.
Yeah - remember that - z as a variable tends to mean stochastic with the maths I am exposed to these days.
I was thinking turbulence :) - which is the tough problem in fluid dynamics.
I'm following most of it (hey, I did score a 761 in math on my SAT!), but some, like the above paragraph, takes a while to unravel. I just take a piece at a time and figure out what it means in "English" then look at the rest as a whole. Using a contraction like semistrip instead of semi-infinite strip just makes it that much more difficult.
After figuring 'em out, I've actually been rewriting some of these in much easier to understand papers so I can explain things to non-math heads. I already have a few on wind power, hydro power, tip speed ratios as well as relating RPM, torque and power.
The above paragraph came from a paper written by a Russian PhD discussing the efficiency limits of certain types of hydro turbines. I went looking to see if there were known physical limitations for hydro like there are for wind (i.e., the Betz Limit - which I can now explain to ordinary Joe's in my sleep).
My main focus is actually preparing all of the project management. I've even started to prepare to take the PMP certification test (hopefully in Spring) after I upgrade one of my BS degrees (when I earned it, the college was unaccredited, now they have their accredation so I've found out what little I need to do to make the units transferable. I think after applying several courses I took from Cal. St. Fullerton and successfully CLEP'ing the English Composition course, all I'm going to have to take is one Social Science course. Add those to all of the "current experience" I'm getting with the start-up, and I'll be marketable again if the start-up fails (we're expecting our FIRST order next week - after only 17+ months of work - sheesh! ::) ).
Nice to see the word "stochastic" used in something other than one of my commodity trading charts BTW! :)
fingers — Nov 27, 2010Mapping into the z plane - complex numbers. - remember that from fluid dynamics - transform and aerofoi section into a circle - solve in the z plane and translate the solution back.
Yeah - remember that - z as a variable tends to mean stochastic with the maths I am exposed to these days.
I was thinking turbulence :) - which is the tough problem in fluid dynamics.
Thinking turbulence? Like the turbulence ejecting from Kevs ass as he shits his pants running down dogwood lane? :D S out the A minus toilet paper and a proper stool = a smelly Kev.
I bet I can guess what Hooky got on his SAT test! Drool! ;) :D
My schools didn't give test on Saturdays. :D