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I remember in my first year of an engineering course there was a course on measurement and instrumentation. The lecturer told us that in engineering if something is less than 10% we can probably ignore it.
The guy was a mechanical engineering guy, we soon learned things were very different in electronics when on the first course we were given an operational amplifier and told the gain should be about 10k, or 100k maybe a million, doesn't really matter.
The guy was a mechanical engineering guy, we soon learned things were very different in electronics when on the first course we were given an operational amplifier and told the gain should be about 10k, or 100k maybe a million, doesn't really matter.
Gman20 said:
I remember in my first year of an engineering course there was a course on measurement and instrumentation. The lecturer told us that in engineering if something is less than 10% we can probably ignore it.
The guy was a mechanical engineering guy, we soon learned things were very different in electronics when on the first course we were given an operational amplifier and told the gain should be about 10k, or 100k maybe a million, doesn't really matter.
I can't remember what it was, but there was one mechanical derivation where 2/Pi was just cancelled as equaling 1; gasps in the auditorium at the audacity of that simplification, but it works.The guy was a mechanical engineering guy, we soon learned things were very different in electronics when on the first course we were given an operational amplifier and told the gain should be about 10k, or 100k maybe a million, doesn't really matter.
Fer said:
captain_cynic said:
Wouldn't that depend on if the vacuum was switched on or not?[pedant mode]
A vacuum can't be switched on or off, it can exist or not, so the joke would need to be a vacuum chamber with a vacuum existing
[/pedant mode]
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