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nosefirsteverytime
25th Mar 2005, 22:04
Inspired by "The JetBlast mathematical formula thread" (go on, post a formula that'll really wreck their heads!) (http://www.pprune.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168429&perpage=15&pagenumber=1)
So what is the most used mathematical formula that you use in the profession?
Genghis the Engineer
26th Mar 2005, 00:37
F=ma (otherwise known as Newton's second law).
Closely followed by incompressible Bernoulli.
Followed a little later by the Euler buckling load formula.
I've invented a few much more complicated ones of my own from time to time, but they aren't as useful (if they were, Daniel Bernoulli would probably have thought of them about 1740!).
G
Newtonian Mechanic !
Point0Five
26th Mar 2005, 12:15
The best ones are actually the most simple... they nicely underpin all of your considerations and decisions. Without the fundamentals, you've got nothing.:)
The most import ones are multiplication
Hourly rate X 1.5 or X2 for OT
then subtraction
hours to knock off or years to retirement::ok: