And after that analogy is understood, make them understand thermodynamics by using electronic models.

"It is my pleasure to report, that the construction of the Death Star has already done wonders for the economy of Narkina 5. A new state-of-the-art production facility has gone into operation offering 5000 jobs and economic opportunity, contributing its part to peace and stability for everyone living in the empire.

You too can be part of this project. Talk to your governor motivating them to apply for economic opportunity near you."

Not that I know of. There have been discussions around putting some of that into legislation though. I'm not sure about how serious that is, since most of all of this is done behind closed doors.

Joke's on us. Remember the 'great deal' for 15% tariffs? Guess what was included in that. Yep: Better access to the EU market for US agricultire products and the axing of what they call "unfair" trade barriers. Which includes among others plant-health measures, health regulations, vehicle safety regulations and more generally easier mutual recognition of assessments of conformity.

The problem is more that they make silly unforced errors. Like today, where they made a completely weird strategy call for both or last race, where they had more porpoising than they expected and got DQed. There were more of these errors during the season, albeit not often this consequential. They could have gone into the last few races just fighting it out amongst themselves, but instead they've let a third one get in between them.

If I was Oscar Piastri I would be looking at what other teams can offer

This would be even more true, if McL had decided to back Lando at the beginning of the season. It is precisely the equal opportunity in the most competitive car, that would keep him there (rule changes for 2026 notwithstanding). So the argument is exactly the opposite.

Basically the assumption is that the signal x(t) is equal to 0 for all t < 0 and that the integral converges. And what is a bit counter-intuitive: Laplace transformations can be regarded as generalizations of Fourier transformations, since the variable s is not only imaginary but fully complex. But yeah... I would have to brush up on it again, before explaining it as well. It's... been a while.

I was at the intersection between mechanical and electrical engineering as well as computer science. And worked in/with (electric) mobility, agriculture, medical/rehabilitation tech., solar energy, energy grid, construction and building tech. As well as some very limited stuff with economics. And I intentionally chose my study courses to be able to work in multiple areas and inter-disciplinary. My latest work is more on the business and management side of things and less technical, though.

What are you studying and what direction are you hoping to head in?

Basically two things: 1. Complicated operations in the time domain like convolutions become simple operations in the frequency domain. 2. It is way easier to handle complex numbers and do analysis with them than with explicit frequencies to the point where some things like stability and robustness can be judged by simple geometry (e.g. are the eigenvalues within the unit circle) or the sign of the imaginary part.

EDIT: I forgot the most important simplification of operations: A derivative in the time domain, becomes a simple multiplication by s in the frequency domain. So solving Differential Equations of the system's dynamics becomes pretty easy without having to go back into the time domain explicitly.

It seems simpler than the Fourier transform, until you realize that the s is a complex number.

Oh, look at that hornet's nest. I wonder what happens if I poke it

As someone who worked with system modelling, analysis and control for years... I do think the Laplace transform is easier to work with 🙈🏃‍♂️

Please enlighten us. What reports on 'McLaren cheating w/ skid blocks' surfaced a year ago?

If the skids expanded, they would protrude more and therefore be more prone to wear. That is the exact opposite of what the "trick" should do. Furthermore they wouldn't be flush with the plank after cooling down again for re-scrutineering, which would be weird because that is tightly regulated.

So I don't know who came up with this rumor, but it makes sense on no level whatsoever.

In some places in the world, some people seem to get incredibly clumsy when they're near open windows. In others, they have very guilty consciences to the point of killing themselves.

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