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  • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

    Looks like you've picked up a univoter

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    I presume you un univoted me. Thanks But really, how hard is sums? Look it is all just algebra and functions, and once you get that then all is clear.

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      I googled and found this page, which explains a vector projection simply enough. Seems like you just place two vectors at the same origin. You then create a triangle by connecting the tip of one to the side of the second using a line perpendicular to the second (so a triangle with one 90 degree corner). Take the vector created by connecting the origin to that point on the second vector where the perpendicular line connects, and you have your vector projection. I am not sure what it is used for in 2D physics.

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      aspdotnetdev wrote:

      Seems like you just place two vectors at the same origin. You then create a triangle by connecting the tip of one to the side of the second using a line perpendicular to the second (so a triangle with one 90 degree corner). Take the vector created by connecting the origin to that point on the second vector where the perpendicular line connects, and you have your vector projection.

      That is all I needed to figure it out! :-D

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      • L Lost User

        I (easily) passed the courses Graphics (50% of it was linear algebra), Data-structures (mostly about algorithmic complexity) and even Cryptography without passing the 1st-year Maths course (not until I re-did it for the 3rd time). Knowing a lot about maths may not be as important as they want you to think..

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        NOT knowing maths is going to get you killed. Think Engineering, medicine, dance, etc :)

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        • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

          What are those in CGPA?

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          Don't apply, doing this one as a mature student through the Open Univesity.

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            I presume you un univoted me. Thanks But really, how hard is sums? Look it is all just algebra and functions, and once you get that then all is clear.

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            Dalek Dave wrote:

            I presume you un univoted me.

            I didnt mean to offend you! I take advise seriously so thank you ! :-D

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              NOT knowing maths is going to get you killed. Think Engineering, medicine, dance, etc :)

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              I dont want to die young :laugh:

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                I presume you un univoted me. Thanks But really, how hard is sums? Look it is all just algebra and functions, and once you get that then all is clear.

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                Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                I could swear I did the first time around! Rectified.

                Dalek Dave wrote:

                But really, how hard is sums?

                I don't find them hard, but some were quite tedious. Some of the expansions and transforms that we did back in school.. a recipe for a headache. However, when I first tackled my MS degree, I was dumbstruck by how much harder it was for me to do, what I previously considered simple, calculus. I am certain it was due to my lack of practice.

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                  Don't apply, doing this one as a mature student through the Open Univesity.

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                  Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                  I meant the 2.1 and 2.2 :)

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                  • V venomation

                    Sadly I have looked there, just seems to be too much association with maths terms I am not familiar with ie: "The vector resolute (also known as the vector projection) of two vectors, A in the direction of B (also A on B")" ... tells me that a projection is a direction between two vectors... The math symbols used some of which I know (dot product for example I know returns a number representing a vectors direction ie 0), but make it hard for me to just look at and understand :(

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                    Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                    Ultimately, what it means is that a vector projection is nothing more than the compound of two vectors. An analogy. Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact. Easy, eh? :)

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                    • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                      I meant the 2.1 and 2.2 :)

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                      I clicked the thumb up though like all comments so far :doh: You deserve a 5 I am trying to click them and it appears to be working.

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                      • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                        I meant the 2.1 and 2.2 :)

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                        All modules at 'just passed' except the finals, which were boosted by the oral digression and the essays. My finals were a little bland and normal, I feel I am far better at physics than my degree shows, but I can't prove it.

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                        • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                          Ultimately, what it means is that a vector projection is nothing more than the compound of two vectors. An analogy. Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact. Easy, eh? :)

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                          Dalek Dave
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                          Only easy in conventional physics. Now try it at the quantum level! :) Wonderful....One of them turns into a whale and the other, a bowl of petunias!

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                            I dont want to die young :laugh:

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                            Dalek Dave
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                            Ahhhh...so you learnt dance!

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                              All modules at 'just passed' except the finals, which were boosted by the oral digression and the essays. My finals were a little bland and normal, I feel I am far better at physics than my degree shows, but I can't prove it.

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                              Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                              Dalek Dave wrote:

                              All modules at 'just passed' except the finals, which were boosted by the oral digression and the essays.

                              OK, Gotcha

                              Dalek Dave wrote:

                              which were boosted by the oral digression

                              That sounds a bit... racy and more like a bribe! :-D

                              Dalek Dave wrote:

                              My finals were a little bland and normal, I feel I am far better at physics than my degree shows, but I can't prove it.

                              I can sympathize with that.

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                                Only easy in conventional physics. Now try it at the quantum level! :) Wonderful....One of them turns into a whale and the other, a bowl of petunias!

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                                Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                                Ah, but that's when you break out the bistro mathematics and the cup of coffee...

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                                  NOT knowing maths is going to get you killed. Think Engineering, medicine, dance, etc :)

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                                  Apparently my thinking apparatus is having a little trouble today, because I don't see any connection between engineering, medicine and dance, other than that they all appear in your post.

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                                  • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                                    Ultimately, what it means is that a vector projection is nothing more than the compound of two vectors. An analogy. Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact. Easy, eh? :)

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                                    Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

                                    Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact.

                                    Very easy to understand :D So a ball falling from the sky at an angle when it hits the projection would be the vector that the ball will "bounce" towards?

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                                      Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

                                      Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact.

                                      Very easy to understand :D So a ball falling from the sky at an angle when it hits the projection would be the vector that the ball will "bounce" towards?

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                                      Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                                      Correct :) To be pedantic, the "ball falling from the sky at an angle" is the ball and its vector details, the angle being the direction in 2D/3D space (depending on how you see it) and upon "impact" with another vector (even an immobile has a vector) results with a projection, again each one has a projection.

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                                        Apparently my thinking apparatus is having a little trouble today, because I don't see any connection between engineering, medicine and dance, other than that they all appear in your post.

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                                        Dalek Dave
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                                        All require mathematics to make them work.

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                                          All require mathematics to make them work.

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                                          Some more subconsciously than others.

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