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re: Spinoff thread- OT Math/Science guys, most difficult problem you've solved?

Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:47 pm to
Posted by CFDoc
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:47 pm to
Turbulent Navier Stokes with non-equilibrium finite rate chemical schemes.
Posted by KG6
Member since Aug 2009
10920 posts
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:47 pm to
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But these guys are supposedly licensed engineers and they don't think the answer to that problem is 288


Never said it was one or the other I'm arguing that you aren't wrong for choosing one over the other. And I'm not a licensed engineer (although I have the necessary years experience and am not afraid of the test. I'd just take a pay cut to go back to any position required to use the PE and I don't have time to prepare).

Good luck on the exam
Posted by PhiTiger1764
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Member since Oct 2009
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Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:54 pm to
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good luck on the exam

Thanks. Sorry for being a dick. It's 288.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
20923 posts
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:59 pm to
Which P.E. are you taking? Civil? Which Depth?

Also

quote:

Good luck on the exam


P.S.- I sit for the P.E. in October. Debating on taking S.E./P.E. or just civil structural.
Posted by gooch11
Member since Jan 2015
108 posts
Posted on 4/15/15 at 10:02 pm to
I divided by zero once.
Posted by BoostAddict
Member since Jun 2007
2989 posts
Posted on 4/15/15 at 10:27 pm to
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Debating on taking S.E.


LOL...SE exam huh? Good luck with that shite man. The PE exam is a joke compared to that sumbitch.

As for the problem... probably something in EM fields.
Posted by Croacka
Denham Springs
Member since Dec 2008
61441 posts
Posted on 4/15/15 at 10:30 pm to
I figured out the deflection of a cantilevered beam today

Took me a couple hours but I got it
Posted by C
Houston
Member since Dec 2007
27830 posts
Posted on 4/15/15 at 10:32 pm to
Determining human factors variables and risks. As a ChE, humans are too damn illogical to design around.
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35242 posts
Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:15 pm to
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Determining human factors variables and risks. As a ChE, humans are too damn illogical to design around.
It's probably impossible to completly solve--in the traditional sense--any equation dealing with human behavior. Imperfect Probabilistic models are about as good as we can get, and we'll probably never be able account for anywhere close to 100% of the variance in predictions.
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:37 pm to
I still don't understand heat transfer, would have been one of those if I ever did.
Posted by Tigah in the ATL
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2005
27539 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 12:04 am to
The July 16 thing seemed hard at first.
Posted by Dooshay
CEBA
Member since Jun 2011
29879 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 12:13 am to
If the most difficult problem you've solved is one from a textbook, you haven't done much with your life.
Posted by geauxturbo
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2007
4178 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 12:15 am to
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Damn power series solutions to solve the boundary conditions


Yeah, all that real world actual math and science shite won't get you past a government regulator on a power trip.

Lolz

Posted by GynoSandberg
Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 4/16/15 at 12:34 am to
Posted by CFDoc
Member since Jan 2013
2097 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:47 am to
quote:

If the most difficult problem you've solved is one from a textbook, you haven't done much with your life.



WInner.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
65873 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:52 am to
Imaginary Numbers never turn you down. When all the others turn you away, they're around.
This post was edited on 4/16/15 at 7:59 am
Posted by Thib-a-doe Tiger
Member since Nov 2012
35459 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:54 am to
I figured out how to get into your mom
Posted by BigEdLSU
All around the south
Member since Sep 2010
20268 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:56 am to
In high school I trisected a triangle with proof. Lsu professors confirmed.

Supposed to have been impossible
Posted by Agforlife
Somewhere in the Brazos Valley
Member since Nov 2012
20102 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 8:07 am to
Beam deflection and dead load deflection are about as complicated as I like to get.


I consider the math I do daily (surveyor) to be routine and I like it that way.
Posted by DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Member since May 2011
19429 posts
Posted on 4/16/15 at 8:10 am to
Not much, as soon as they started getting difficult I changed my focus to learning how to use social skills coupled with simple math to manipulate finance and increase my net worth exponentially faster than the nerds trying to solve complex equations from engineering textbooks.
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