I should specify when I say physical engineering I just mean chemical, mechanical, electrical, etc. (not software), rather than physics in theory/academia.
I guess engineers are applied physics (in a particular area each), and we need to distribute our deliverables to people who aren't necessarily experts in every discipline.
It just also makes sense to always define variables.
It's so funny because I've never seen voltage defined as U, and not V haha, proving how if you're going to have an equation, you'd better define everything, there's so many reused letters!
Thing is, you usually define all your variables. At least we do in engineering (of physical variety, rather than software).
Mostly because we can't expect everyone reading the calculation to know, and that not everyone uses the same symbols.
Not explaining each variable is bad practice, other than for very simple things. (I do expect everyone and their dog reading a process eng calc to know PV=nRT, at a minimum).
Just like (in my opinion) not defining industry specific abbreviations is also bad practice.
This is because you've accidentally input the values as text somewhere along the line. First make sure your format is set to date in the range in question.
Make use of the DATEVALUE formula in blank column =DATEVALUE(your_range). This will output your range as a number. Note that your_range needs to be in your computers date format (I have mine set to YYYY.MM.DD, so that what I have to use, else it won't work. You might be American, so your dates would need to be MM/DD/YYYY) for DATEVALUE to recognise the text as a date string.
Then copy the output, paste as values only (alt, h, v, v), then copy that and paste it back into you range.
Make sure the format is set to date and you're laughing.
While this is completely true, it's a bit tone-deaf. Fuck cars, but many people barely have a choice because their public transport consists of a handful of busses that come once an hour and nothing is close by.
As an aside, I spend a whopping total of about $1/day (edit Australian $, so less USD) on maintenance and electricity for my electric cargo bike. I go about 17 km each way to work and the funny thing is it's only about 10 mins longer than driving, lol
It's totally possible for everyone to vote with a paper system. We manage just fine here in Australia, and have massive turn out because it's mandatory to vote as a citizen, you can vote in advance, via mail, and elections are always on a Saturday.
The US has more people, but that just means you have more people to count votes, this scales just fine.
Not to mention, there are places in the US who have paper ballots.
I'm not sure there's any situation where electronic voting could be claimed to a suitable way to provide more access to voting. It's very, very easy to vote here in Australia, much more so than many places in the US.
You just have to actually provide the resources to do it.
I think this is a binary, in the case of elections, electronic is worse in terms of security, and the benefit of not needing to count up votes doesn't make up for this.
Unless you manage to find a more secure electronic method.
Sounds like a failure in the election procedure. I agree the fact this incident isn't widely known (I'm not in the US, so I'm taking you're word for it), is very troubling, and it's no wonder trust in elections in the US is so low. Republicans wouldn't be able to claim fraud if the system was entirely standardised across all electorates, and properly overseen. I note, there are other countries where the only election disputes are over the fairness of the voting system itself, and not if there is fraud (Australia, which is where I'm from).
These people you mention should be in prison. If they're not, then as a country you're basically asking for election distrust.
My initial point is that while Republicans who claim election fraud are likely wrong (seeing as, you only need to cheat when you're unpopular, like the Republicans are), as a country, if you stick to your electronic voting, and non-standardised elections, you're basically asking for voting fraud and distrust in the system.
I find way too many people online defending the voting machines, simply because their team won.
I feel entitled to comment on this as a foreigner, because I live in a vassal state, and this shit affects me.
Yeah you still not need a robust auditing system with multiple layers of oversight, and oh, ya know, a federal electoral commission that directly oversees every level.
Also the fact voting rules are different per state for a federal election is insane.
Being able to throw out votes should be harder in physical form, because you actually need to transport physical things.
It is super yikes that it's so ingrained in your culture that you value your wholesome vibes over not having school shootings, in the only country where it's a serious problem.
Get a bow and arrow if you really want to hunt so badly.
Guns aren't wholesome, and not required to replicate your wholesome experience.
While I get that as a stop gap when your city hasn't built enough PT, car to the station sounds like a good last mile solution. But my personal preference, and how good public transport is set up, is that in 90% o
more of the trips around your city, public transport should never be more than a walk away.
This is not to say that cars should be removed entirely (for disabled people where PT accommodations are difficult, delivery, emergency vehicles etc). Just that you shouldn't nearly as many cars for the last mile, in a well designed system.
This is how I try to live, mostly. Can't get there by public transport? Well I'm not going unless I have to then 👍 because cars are expensive and I'll get a cab or rent one if I have to. But I live in a fairly car-centric city. It's totally possible to have your entirely city be accessible by foot + PT.
I'm not sure if the driverless car tech would ever be viable, and why not just do driverless BRT conversions, which is possible right now, and not that expensive.
I used to do it this way in highschool, but could never remember if it was divide by or multiply by 3.6
Instead I now do it as you have shown, except it all goes in the same expression.
10 km/h * 1000 m/km * 1h/3600s = 2.778 m/s
No need for the extra steps. Slap it all in the same expression and put it in the calculator (being careful to check that the units cancel as intended)
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I should specify when I say physical engineering I just mean chemical, mechanical, electrical, etc. (not software), rather than physics in theory/academia.
I guess engineers are applied physics (in a particular area each), and we need to distribute our deliverables to people who aren't necessarily experts in every discipline.
It just also makes sense to always define variables.
It's so funny because I've never seen voltage defined as U, and not V haha, proving how if you're going to have an equation, you'd better define everything, there's so many reused letters!
Thanks for sharing