Power Series Approximation A Taylor series is a useful tool in analyzing functions. It allows us to break up those function into an infinitely long, easier to deal with, polynomial. The general formula of a Taylor series is, for some function r(t) Note: The vertical line with a zero at the bottom means evaluate this…
Things Always Come in 3’s If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three. -Laurence J. Peter Lot’s of things come in threes, there’s even a whole website devoted to three’s. Is there a reason we’re fixated on groupings of three? Probably, but that seems like a psychology question and this post is about…
Introduction to GBR If you’re like me, you’ve been getting a deluge of emails about new regulations in Europe kicking into place called the GDPR. Don’t worry, this post isn’t about that. GBR stands for the Gereshes Book Review. I’ve been reading plenty of good engineering/science/math books lately and I’ve wanted to share my thoughts…
Review of Constants of Integration In Last week’s post we played around with the equation of motion to transform it into forms that we could integrate. Through that we identified 5 different constants of integration. There’s actually also a sixth that I didn’t go over last time called mean angular motion and denoted by symbol, n.…
