Engineering Thread

TheAmateur · 19-05-2009 05:47PM

Peleus wrote: »

Oh whats the continuous assesment for chemistry and electricity? I heard our physics and chemistry experiments count towards 1e4 and 1e6 and as well as 1e9. Is this true? Anyone know what percent of 1e4/1e6 they count for? if its true.

Bridge said he wasn't allowed to say that 1E4 takes your labs into account, and that's all anyone got out of him on the subject.
Don't know about 1E6 but I don't see how they could...

Peleus · 19-05-2009 06:07PM

TheAmateur wrote: »

Bridge said he wasn't allowed to say that 1E4 takes your labs into account, and that's all anyone got out of him on the subject.
Don't know about 1E6 but I don't see how they could...

but the 1e5 guy said every subject has to have continuous assesment. thats why he had the mock exam. damn Bridge.

Jonathan · 19-05-2009 06:12PM

Peleus wrote: »

Oh whats the continuous assesment for chemistry and electricity? I heard our physics and chemistry experiments count towards 1e4 and 1e6 and as well as 1e9. Is this true? Anyone know what percent of 1e4/1e6 they count for? if its true.

Engineering labs count for a portion of most subjects.
It rewards students who make an effort with the CA during the year.

Peleus · 19-05-2009 06:40PM

oh and another question. sorry bout these. You know the 30% pass in one subject rule. If you get 30% and dont have to repeat does that mean that that subject doesnt count towards you average mark for the year.

Lets say i get 30% in chemistry (likely). does that mean my average mark plummets? or do the marks from chemistry still go towards the year average?

Boston · 19-05-2009 06:44PM

Peleus wrote: »

Lets say i get 30% in chemistry (likely). does that mean my average mark plummets? or do the marks from chemistry still go towards the year average?

0_o

Both. Your average mark plummets because your marks from chemistry go towards your average. Why would it be any other way?

TheAmateur · 19-05-2009 06:44PM

Can anyone still log onto wiley? I think it's been reset...

Peleus · 19-05-2009 06:57PM

Boston wrote: »

0_o

Both. Your average mark plummets because your marks from chemistry go towards your average. Why would it be any other way?

sorry, wasnt clear. i meant do you get 0 towards your average for the exam because technically you failed it? or do you get 30% towards it?

Boston · 19-05-2009 07:01PM

30% also note, you must average a pass. In other words, if you score 30% in one subject and 40% in the rest, you'll still fail the year as your average mark with be a fail.

Peleus · 19-05-2009 07:11PM

TheAmateur wrote: »

Can anyone still log onto wiley? I think it's been reset...

no i can still log in. check ur log in details.

TheAmateur · 19-05-2009 07:42PM

Peleus wrote: »

no i can still log in. check ur log in details.

Yep it's grand now, it was acting really funny earlier though, there were no assignments and when I logged out and tried to log in again i couldn't.

TheAmateur · 20-05-2009 09:37PM

This crazy 1E8 exam that they've gone and changed the format of, does this mean there's no mcq part at all? How many questions will we have to answer now?

Birdie · 20-05-2009 09:43PM

2 from David Taylor
2 from Anil Kokaram
2 from Khursir Ahmad
1 from Alexis Donnelly

pick 5

Not sure if I like it this way, was just getting the hang of the mech calculations!!

Brian · 20-05-2009 09:47PM

I think I'll do 2-1-2-0. Maybe 1-2-2-0. No way am I doing an essay.

Birdie · 20-05-2009 09:59PM

It's not a whole essay. he asks you to do a paragraph or something... I think there might be some quetions on the rules of UD. I dunno cause when there was 25 MCQs he had like 5 questions in that. I never done the essay so its out for me.
I reckon Ahmads 2 questions will be grand and Kokaram will have at least one nice question. deadly one about fingerprints last year. I dunno about the Mech ones. they'll either be very nice or very aweful. . . he's notes on Webct are nice though.

Peleus · 21-05-2009 04:25PM

i think ill do 2 from taylor 1 from anil and 2 from k ahmad. The only one i sorta know well is k ahmad. ill just try cram for the rest.

Brian · 21-05-2009 04:50PM

I thought I would study 1E6 today, but I just sort of slept instead. It's TOO SUMMERY DAMN IT

Jonathan · 21-05-2009 05:19PM

Is 1e6 still on sat this year?

Peleus · 21-05-2009 05:20PM

ye, ruined a perfectly good friday night.

Jonathan · 21-05-2009 05:22PM

We watched the match in the pav after. Good times.

devinejay · 21-05-2009 05:59PM

Good to know it's open, just yesterday we were trying to get a plan together for the match, we'll probably end up there,

Brian · 23-05-2009 07:37PM

Zhu tut ftw.

mathew · 25-05-2009 02:46PM

:pac:
Sitting in the arts block eating lunch and people watching. Just overheard two students saying how they wish the chose a degree that mean something at the end and they had a definite profession.
'OMG.. I wish i chose a degree so that after four years I could come out and say I'm a dentist, or I'm an Engineer'!!

:P

Jonathan · 25-05-2009 03:14PM

mathew wrote: »

:pac:
Sitting in the arts block eating lunch and people watching. Just overheard two students saying how they wish the chose a degree that mean something at the end and they had a definite profession.
'OMG.. I wish i chose a degree so that after four years I could come out and say I'm a dentist, or I'm an Engineer'!!
:P

Lots of jobs for sociology and jewish studies graduates...

TheAmateur · 25-05-2009 04:49PM

If I were to use a FIR filter with a mask of [1/2, 1/2, 1/2] on the columns of a matrix e.g
[1, 2, 3
4, 5, 6
7, 8, 9]
and assumed that all the entries around the matrix were 0, would the first entry in the filtered matrix be
(1/2 x 0)+(1/2 x 1)+(1/2 x 2)

? The row ones are fine, but I've no idea what to do with the columns.
EDIT: figured it out. Was trying to do kokaram's q from 2005, the one where he says "and then along the columns". Realised he was talking about the matrix got from using the filter along the rows, not the matrix you had to start with. Was going crazy trying to figure out where he was getting his crazy values.

Peleus · 26-05-2009 08:28PM

what was the story with the first question on 1e8 exam. It was something like list three ways that a car can be run by nucleur power. I said a nucleur reactor and steam engine in the car (lol), chargin batteries with nucleur power and running the car off those and then using nucleur power to create hydrogen fuel to run the car. Any marks for those?

and the things that limit the max running speed of an engine, i said the stroke length and the mass of the piston and connector rod. that right?

devinejay · 26-05-2009 08:32PM

I said pretty much the same, except I mentioned that the Doc got shot by arabs when he tried putting a nuclear reactor in his DeLorean, and it probably wasn't a great idea.

I said the weight of the components and the compression ratio, I'd say you're right about stroke length.

Peleus · 26-05-2009 08:39PM

devinejay wrote: »

I mentioned that the Doc got shot be arabs when he tried putting a nuclear reactor in his DeLorean, and it probably wasn't a great idea.

lol

Brian · 26-05-2009 08:53PM

I just drew a rotary engine for 1(b). Fuckawesome.

For 1(a) - Nuclear power plant providing electricity for batteries of electric car; source of electricity for electrolysis, ie Hydrogen Fuel Cell; Mini nuclear reactor (I had seriously run out of ideas).

for (c) I made it up. Piston ring wear and the max speed of fuel injection.

devinejay · 26-05-2009 08:56PM

I had a funny feeling you would have some way of working in the wankel.

Jonathan · 26-05-2009 10:23PM

A nuclear powered sterling engine. :pac:

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