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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

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  • 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!!

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  • 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!!

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