Is is really for missiles. Same reason the ITAR limits for accelerometers and gyros are relatively high (I think like 10g for acceleration). Same again for vibration tolerance. It is a barrier to entry for making a navigation system for missiles.
I think it is especially relevant in the time of coronavirus to also consider the idea that maybe you just don't need to go into work all the time (or even at regular times) for a large percentage of workers. Just have less cars on the road by running society a little differently.
It's from Procrustes, the guy who chopped your feet off to make you fit in the bed in greek myth. You find Procrustean analysis in mathematics, where you try and find the closest approximating matrix with a certain property to another given matrix (like it is a rotation matrix etc).
What's wrong with a low bar to tertiary education? It lets disadvantaged kids get in and catch up. As long as the standards are high by the end everything is fine right?
I write stuff every now and again so I don't forget how to write. Contains random notes on stuff I have been thinking about. May contain traces of nuts.
That rubbed me up the wrong way too. Applied mathematics is really quite transferable across disciplines, you just usually don't have the domain knowledge to stop you chasing dead ends or reinventing the wheel.
Depends on your system!!! If you online tune and accidentally set P a little too big it is quite easy to set off an unstable oscillation and depending on your application can get a rather expensive earth shattering kaboom...
If you had a multiple choice quiz with the actual questions hidden you would get a normal distribution in results. Anything where you sum lots of small random effects.
The tests aren't perfect. False positive and negative rates are non negligible. Not saying that they are not useful, just they don't solve the problem on their own.
And just like how I interpret Nietzsche in the context of him being the third wheel in an open relationship, this feels like someone who is reacting because they feel let down by the promises of "leftism" or society in general. It says more about the psychic state of the author than about the truth of the world.
Rubber has a density of 1500 kg/m^3, a tyre wears about 5mm before it needs to be replaced. If I say a tyre has a radius of about 0.3 metres and a width of about 0.2 metres and plug this into the equation for an annular cylinder I get about 2kg of material lost between new and needs to be replaced per tyre. I don't know how long tyres last for most people, but I would guess about 50000km. So I would expect about 0.2 grams per km from tyres...
Here are two reasons I think are important, there are more but these stand out. (1) Teaching is hard, and the amount of training you get in teaching higher level maths (rather than the just learning higher level maths itself) is very limited. (2) intuition in maths will lead you on a merry path to very wrong ideas. There are functions that are continuous everywhere without a derivative anywhere, Russell's paradox, classically zenos paradox, etc, etc. A big part of higher level maths training is in being precise with what you mean so that you can learn to do proofs and not trick yourself. I think a synthesis of these approaches is the sweet spot. Be precise but show applications to motivate the material.
As someone who has worked in both worlds, it is just a different sort of nonsense that you have to deal with. Typically the physical engineering thing is "we want you to work out why this weird thing is happening, then fix it, without us having to change anything operationally or spend any money." just a different flavor of the same crap.