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Mr. Bartucz

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Hi Everyone,

 

I am a middle school Algebra and Tech teacher in Rochester MN. Looking forward to learning a lot from everyone here.

 

Thanks,

John

  • in reply to Robert Peter Oakes

    I really just enjoy tinkering (or "making" as it's now called). I'm trying to get kids interested in what's under the hood. Going to start a raspberry pi after school program and hopefully build it into an electronics club. Why not get paid to play with electronics and teach kids at the same time image

     

    My bio is just that I grew up in Canada, moved to the US for college and came to Rochester about 12 years ago. Just started teaching a year and a half ago, so it's all still really new. Looking forward to learning from you guys.

     

    John

  • An old, slim-but-dense volume that introduces e- for math synthesis, rather than math for e- analysis, oldie-but-goodie, is Non-linear Circuits Handbook from Analog Devices.

     

    Richard Feynman was on a yak show and asked about magnetics.  I recall him retorting that he had a better question:  Why don't we fall through the couches upon which we are sitting?

  • Hi John.  Electronics is a good place to teach about mathematics.  The only bummer is we don't have many terms higher than second-order.  Knowing some math is, to my mind, the sine qua non of the non-duffer.  As an analog guy let me add the caveat that models are forever subject to the possibility of improvement.  Any linear, two-terminal load can be modeled upon a  complex number.  Any n-port circuit can be modeled with a matrix of complex numbers.  Trig comes into play, dynamics, calculus and differential equations, Boolean algebra, filters, FFT, polar and Smith, L-grammars, all kinds of juicy mathy stuff!

     

    I am going to build a 555 circuit that works as a multiplier when I de-couch.  I will modulate pulse width and frequency and integrate the result.  Math just abounds in e-!  Capacitors should be taught first, then conductance.  Mind to teach the hysteresis curve so useful in magnetics, before your students become logarithm-fixated.  That is a route to punchy ennui in e-, log-fixation.  Remember to think about electricity in nature, lightning and magnetars and Cooper-pairing and stuff.  Not to mention cybernetic theory, although I just did.

     

    Here is a fascinating locus of conflux between e- and math:

    http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pubs/paper245.htm

     

    Anyway, Hi Hi!!

  • Hi John, Welcome to the forum. I'm 100 mi away in WI. My son lives in Rochester. Lots of great and knowledgeable people here to share ideas and answer questions. Check out as he has a really good series right now on building a powersupply.

    John W.

  • Welcome aboard

     

     

     

    Strap in as its going be a fun ride

     

     

     

    Give us a quick BIO about yourself and aspirations of what your trying to learn / deliver to the class or just for yourself, either way

     

     

     

    Peter

  • Hello John,

    Welcome to the element14 Community, we hope you enjoy it!

     

    Thank you,

     

    Jamie