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Did you have a teacher that sparked epiphanies?

dougw
dougw over 1 year ago

Did you ever have a teacher who presented material in a way that led to you have an epiphany, where the concept just clicked?

  • Like realizing that the derivative of a waveform at a point is simply the slope of the waveform at that point
  • Or understanding that the integral of the waveform is simply the area under the curve
  • Or how negative feedback makes an amplifier predictable
  • Or how a dielectric affects capacitance

What concepts do we now take for granted that when you first came across them, they were magic?

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    electronicbiker over 1 year ago +1
    Yes - his name was Mr Woolard, he taught maths and rugby football while I was in the sixth form studying 'A' levels. Up until then I'd been pretty dumb at maths. With his teaching lots of things suddenly…
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    dougw over 1 year ago +1
    One surprisingly useful concept that clicked after just being mentioned in an off-hand way was dimensional analysis, where one could solve problems or at least do a sanity check on answers just by figuring…
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    Photo received at the right angle side. At at the end of the long side a rotating modulated light projector.

    Know the distance between light and sensor. Know the angle when sensor captures reflected light. You got all the fixing to know the height of the cloud above the sensor.

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    colporteur over 1 year ago

    right angle triangle to measure the height of the clouds.

    Photo received at the right angle side. At at the end of the long side a rotating modulated light projector.

    Know the distance between light and sensor. Know the angle when sensor captures reflected light. You got all the fixing to know the height of the cloud above the sensor.

    I alway enjoyed geometry but the job that I discovered it could be applied WOW!

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