RE: Engineering and Tesla MATH

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Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>

Hi Matt

If your getting A's in mathematics, you can't be as bad off as you think.
But this must be tempered by the fact that A's are easier to get these days.
In my student days, only a few A's would be handed out. In a EE program, you
will be required to take calculus, advanced engineering mathematics,
differential equations, partial differential equations, vector analysis,
complex variables, linear algebra, and computer application. For the most
part, these courses will be about standard calculation procedures which
surface often in application. You should take an advanced calculus course
that has an emphasis on higher calculation. Stay away from theory courses
which are primarily for mathematics majors. 

Go to the FSU bookstore now to pick up the calculus book. Study the book all
summer long to get ahead start. Then you will be a ease when you walk into
that first calculus course. Your calculus book will be full of applications.
I never came across a book that details calculus and EE simultaneously.
There is no book on tesla coils that uses calculus. 

Godfrey Loudner         

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> Subject:	Engineering and Tesla MATH
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> 
> I will be taking Electrical Engineering at FSU and am NOT GOOD IN MATH! I 
> still get A's in it somehow but have NEVER had Calculus.What Im asking is
> for 
> applications in Engineering OR tesla coils that use Calculus Problems.I
> can 
> understand math when it has a direct use such as a problem I need to
> figure 
> for a telsa coil or something.Im asking now, becuase i start in the fall
> and 
> wont have alot of time.(playing football for them!) Anyways, if you know
> of 
> some good applications, please help a coiler out! haha,
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt G
> 
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