Good job, Keith. Sometimes I forget that stuff that engineers take for granted isn't widely known for those
who haven't worked through the math in classes, and I fail to point out things like this unless a clear
question is asked. Didn't occur to me to mention this, good that it did for you. But then again,
you are a teacher, used to explaining, and better yet, knowing when and what to explain without the
explicit question being asked.
Reminds me of when I was a grad student, working on my thesis. We had a summer exchange student
from Russia, considered QUITE exotic in the early 70s Cold War era. He was an electrical engineer, was
interested in our hybrid electric bus and car prototypes. His English was good but not great (but infinitely
better than my Rooskie, at that time) but we were easily able to communicate with equations on the chalk board. He
pronounced torque, as "torrr-kee", a bit humorous. But I had to explain the same thing to him when were discussing the
electric drive motor and the gearing system we had used in the hybrid car. Had to adjust the "torkee"
with different gear ratios, even though the power was the same. Once he saw the equations, he got
it. Math, the universal language.
Bill
You did a fine job at that. At least you don't halfarse things.
