Category Archives: Electronics

Introduction Communicating scientific concepts to the public is a tough problem. One of the major issues is that people have a difficult time imagining the relative scale of things — just try to think of 1000 of something versus 10 … Continue reading →

Introduction I get asked a lot of questions about the specific values that are used in engineering standards. At some level, you just meet the required values in these standards. You do not need to know why they were set … Continue reading →

Introduction I have written dozens (hundreds?) of small Mathcad function to help me in my daily work. Since I plan to teach another Mathcad class soon, I am gathering examples that might be good to use as application examples. Yesterday, … Continue reading →

Introduction I have been doing some work that involves computing the characteristic impedances of cables. The work has involved creating some tables in Mathcad for comparison with tables from a government specification. Since I am always looking for real-life computations … Continue reading →

Introduction I received a phone call from a cancer epidemiologist last Friday. He had received my name from a co-worker in his department who knows me. This researcher is in the process of researching a cancer cluster near a cell … Continue reading →

Introduction Engineering is a pretty conservative profession — I have been accused of “abhorring change”. Once something gets standardized it stays in place even when it does not make sense. This morning provided me a good example of this. Phone … Continue reading →

Introduction I have a project that I am working on that involves the use of conformal mappings. I have long found the use of complex numbers in electrical engineering interesting. My first contact with an engineering application of conformal mappings … Continue reading →