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Dr. Drang
I just said what I said and it was wrong or was taken wrong
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[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Continuing our series on the many ways to get the center deflection of a uniformly loaded beam,...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Today we’ll use the Rayleigh-Ritz method again, but this time we’ll avoid dealing with an...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I just learned that people are listening to music pitched slightly down because it makes them...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Continuing our trip through various methods to derive the equation for the center deflection of...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] The sixth way we’ll derive the formula for the center deflection of a uniformly loaded simply...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] The next technique we’ll use to derive the formula for the center deflection of a simply...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] The fourth way we’re going to derive the formula for the center deflection of a simply supported...
In Paul Krugman’s post today, he includes two charts. One is fine, the other isn’t. Here’s the first one: Generally, I’m not a fan of putting stuff in the margins that could be within the body of the plot itself, but at least it’s clear...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Continuing our odyssey through various ways of calculating the deflection at the center of a...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] In the introductory post to this series, I mentioned that the shear is the derivative of the...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Here’s the first of the derivations for the center deflection of a simply supported beam with a...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] A few years ago, I wrote a post describing how I asked ChatGPT to solve a couple of elementary...
I mentioned last week that some wording in a news article struck me as odd. A similar thing happened when I read this Scientific American piece (that’s an Apple News link—I don’t have a SciAm subscription). In this case, I didn’t even...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Earlier this week, I saw this article in Apple News. It’s from the San Francisco Chronicle and...
After yesterday’s post, I got an email from reader Ron Sprague outlining two ways to block sender addresses from the list view in iOS Mail. Both of these methods are efficient, and neither starts with choosing a command with a stupid...