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Relearning your fundamentals
2016-01-16 06:18:19 Post No. 7787209
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Relearning your fundamentals
Anonymous
2016-01-16 06:18:19
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Hi /sci/
I took engineering in uni and it felt like we did a decent chunk of math throughout. Not anywhere near the real math degrees, but we had some decent fundamentals down.
I graduated half a decade ago and I've been working a dead end job where I use nothing I learned at school
I just recently came across a problem where I needed to get the position of something given velocity, acceleration and time. That's straight up high school stuff, and its one of the basic kinematic equations for uniform acceleration.
But the thing is, I didn't remember what it was. What's worse, I wasn't really able to derive it on my own either. It felt pretty bad but so many years of not touching *any* of this stuff puts you out of it.
Does anyone else feel this way? Are you all able to quickly spit out the really basic stuff you learned in highschool and university ?
Do you have any suggestions for how to refresh all this stuff? I'd like to maybe spend three or four hours a week just going over all the basic math and physics stuff... but I don't want to crack open a dozen textbooks and work through everything.
Are there any 'compressed' refresher style books or w/e you can recommend? I feel so dull /sci/, I want to feel a bit sharper again.