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Unread 30-09-2005, 18:48
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On to my 16th year in FRC
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Re: Engineering and Computers

Log Log or semi-log graph paper was pretty easy to find for me. Just print it out.

For my Physics and ME courses we have done a fair amount of graphing including graphing on log log and semilog paper.

For everyone: Did you know excel can plot on a logrithmic scale? Also, did you know you can do a best fit line? I never knew these things before so that's why I'm telling.

For computers aiding in stuff, you're 100% correct. I couldn't imaging designing many things without one.

On a personal note, I've got a nice little Excel Spreadsheet where you input vecors' magnitudes and directions and it breaks them into x and y components, and finds the resultant magnitude and angle. Cool huh? Excel is great. However, we still have to write out everything on our homework like Fx=Fcosθ and so on and soforth.
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