yo new website

[Triarius Fidelis]

http://sites.google.com/site/efg2009/

And I swear I will actually update it regularly.

[overthere]

I like it...I intended to click the engineering notes right away but was strangely drawn to mental diarrhea..
cheers

[Monty67]

I was reading your whole diode thing and trying to see how it applies to Wheatstone Bridge aka Full-Wave Bridge Rectifier.  It's interesting to see you refer to the full wave rectifier instead of the Wheatstone. For whatever reason the WSB just seem to make more sense. Plus the drawings that were presented made it easier to grasp compared to the regular FWR.

To be honest I don't miss circuit theory all all. Nodal and Mesh analysis of circuits drove me to the digital, SW design and matlab world of EE.

Best of luck in your studies. 

[Triarius Fidelis]

I was reading your whole diode thing and trying to see how it applies to Wheatstone Bridge aka Full-Wave Bridge Rectifier.  It's interesting to see you refer to the full wave rectifier instead of the Wheatstone. For whatever reason the WSB just seem to make more sense. Plus the drawings that were presented made it easier to grasp compared to the regular FWR.

When the upper lead of the transformer is positive, current (which is movement of positive charge according to me) flows through the anode of the upper-right diode (labeled red), through the load, and back through the anode of the other red diode into the transformer.

When the lower lead is positive, current flows through the blue pathway.

What I am describing is in fact an application of the 'conventional' current flow model, which I foolishly opted not to use when I started studying analog circuits about a month ago.

I intend to specialize in digital electronics combined with SW engineering myself, but analysis of analog circuits w/ neat little Gaussian elimination at the end rules. At least as long as you use a CAS or calculator to do it; I hate solving simultaneous linear equations by hand.

I like it...I intended to click the engineering notes right away but was strangely drawn to mental diarrhea..
cheers

I'm working on making the bookmarks collection one of the greatest on the Internet. Check it regularly since I intend to add to it every day.

[StrayBit]

Looking forward to in-depth browsing.  Especially fascinated to the link that led me - eventually to "Dave's Old Computers".  Led to a fit of nostalgia when I saw my original SuperBoard listed.

[rbistolfi]

Nice collection of URLs indeed. The whole site is awesome, lot of nice stuff for reading.

[Triarius Fidelis]

I added this one today under a new 'Lectures' category.

http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd

'Holy cow'

Some of these lectures are a little hard to follow, but there are over 3,000 of them.

[Windozer]

Hey Epic,

nice graphic for the full wave. The color is a great idea. If you did this too for RLC circuits, you could help EE students avoid premature discolored hair.

Hmmm... seems like your site popped up just about the time the "registered geek/nerd/dork/pessimist" thread ended... didn't see the registration button on the site though.

"Is your diode half wave or half empty?"

 

cheers
-H
a reformed solder freak

[Triarius Fidelis]

Hey Epic,

nice graphic for the full wave. The color is a great idea. If you did this too for RLC circuits, you could help EE students avoid premature discolored hair.

Look here: http://www.play-hookey.com/ac_theory/

I'm afraid the author didn't make an equivalent diagram for RLC circuits, but maybe if I dig around in my other links I can find something.

Hmmm... seems like your site popped up just about the time the "registered geek/nerd/dork/pessimist" thread ended... didn't see the registration button on the site though.

"Is your diode half wave or half empty?"

I would rather the diode not exist, as well as the semiconductor and any application or observer or whatever, just the Monad. Philosophy is the art of pointing out things that are true but absurd; it is both true and absurd that things would be easier that way. I want to return to the Monad every day.

[Windozer]

I want to return to the Monad every day. - EFG

And refill your Leibnizian fluxions? <g>

[Triarius Fidelis]

I want to return to the Monad every day. - EFG

And refill your Leibnizian fluxions? <g>

I don't have Leibniz in mind so much as Neoplatonism.

Incidentally, Newton is credited with 'fluxions'.

[Windozer]

I don't have Leibniz in mind so much as Neoplatonism. Incidentally, Newton is credited with 'fluxions'. - EFG

Yes, I always confuse Newton and Leibniz (who invented the dx notation).  OK, let me buy you a virtual beer here first...

Although this sort of lurches the thread further off track, why would you consider Monads Neoplatonism? Even though the idea came much later than Plato, wouldn't monadism be Platonism? (And look what can come up for discussion in the Lounge

cheers
- H

Wir halten Gericht: ein Weltreich zerbricht
Das wird unser stolzester Tag!

Erlich gesagt ist daoben eher Fatalizmus als Platonizmus!

[Triarius Fidelis]

I don't have Leibniz in mind so much as Neoplatonism. Incidentally, Newton is credited with 'fluxions'. - EFG

Yes, I always confuse Newton and Leibniz (who invented the dx notation).  OK, let me buy you a virtual beer here first...

But I'm a virtual teetotaler, and also 20 virtual years old

Although this sort of lurches the thread further off track, why would you consider Monads Neoplatonism? Even though the idea came much later than Plato, wouldn't monadism be Platonism? (And look what can come up for discussion in the Lounge

As far as I know, the concept of the monad is essential to Neoplatonism. And it's an older concept than Plato for sure, because Pythagoras also used it.

Wir halten Gericht: ein Weltreich zerbricht
Das wird unser stolzester Tag!

Erlich gesagt ist daoben eher Fatalizmus als Platonizmus!

s/Fatalismus/Faschismus/

Or indeed whatever else I have to do to get out of bed in the morning... Neoclassical Sinofascism ... how did it come to this?