and other tools for thinking

... PUMPS AND OTHER TOOLS FOR THINKING I INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS AN INTUITION PUMP? You can’t much carpentry with your bare hands and you can’t much thinking with your bare brain —BO DAHLBOM Thinking ... more time and energy to making and using my thinking tools Finally, as always, thanks and love to my wife, Susan We’ve been a team for fifty years, and she is as responsible as I am for what we, ... a taste for this way of investigating the world and wonder whether you are cut out for a career in the field Words and phrases in boldface are the names of tools for thinking described and discussed...

Ngày tải lên: 10/07/2014, 23:46

... Matched Text 67 Other Examples 67 Care and Handling: Summary 70 Engines and Chrome Finish 70 Chrome and Appearances 71 Engines and Drivers 71 Common Metacharacters 71 Character Shorthands 72 Strings ... type the command, and another seconds for the actual check of all the data Wow! (If you're interested to see what I actually used, peek ahead to page 32) As another example, the other day I was ... Anchors 240 Convenient Shorthands and Other Notations 241 Character Classes 243 Modification with \Q and Friends: True Lies 245 The Match Operator 246 Match-Operand Delimiters 247 Match Modifiers...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:59

... ♦ Placeholder for actual argument ♦ Most efficient method ♦ Negligible difference for simple types ♦ For class types  clear advantage ♦ Call-by-reference desirable ♦ Especially for "large" data, ... Inline Functions ♦ For non-member functions: ♦ Use keyword inline in function declaration and function heading ♦ For class member functions: ♦ Place implementation (code) for function IN class ... Introduction ♦ Recall: arrays are fixed size ♦ Vectors: "arrays that grow and shrink" ♦ During program execution ♦ Formed from Standard Template Library (STL) ♦ Using template class Copyright © 2006...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 01:20

... and drop, a data store API, 14 U SING THE B OOK localization and internationalization, and a few other miscellaneous functions • Dijit: The Dojo widget framework and built-in widgets (about forty ... programmers for programmers Thanks for giving us the opportunity and all of the support along the way —Rawld, Craig, and Alex I would like to especially thank my coauthors, Craig and Alex, and the ... back and take a look at your new tabbed form It cuts a very fine figure, indeed! And easy to use? Absolutely! And this is only the beginning 2.5 Improved Form Controls Getting back to our problem form,...

Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 13:38

... MATHEMATICAL and COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS for ELECTRICAL and COMPUTER ENGINEERS USING MATLAB đ â 2001 by CRC Press LLC ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICAL and COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS for ELECTRICAL and COMPUTER ENGINEERS ... tan (1 − t )  for − ≤ t ≤ −1 for − < t < for < t < for − ≤ t ≤ −1 for − < t < for < t < Homework Problems The following set of problems provides the mathematical basis for understanding the graphical ... algorithm used for generating random numbers The MATLAB command for generating an N-elements array of random numbers generated uniformly from the interval [0, 1] is rand(1,N) NOTE 1.11 Printing and Saving...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:19

... have to be fit and agile! (Project Developers’ Forum, 18–19 March 2008) Monitoring and evaluation: tools for biodiversity conservation and development projects WHO IS THIS HANDBOOK FOR? There are ... quantitative and qualitative information Depending on your information needs, you might be looking for primary information (new information that you are the first to collect) or secondary information (information ... Planning for monitoring and evaluation handbook, provided in-depth and valuable comments on a draft version of this handbook SANBI’s Publication Unit was responsible for technical editing, design and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2014, 12:52

... iterative equations for D(k) and D2(k), as given respectively by Eqs (4.16) and (4.30), and with the initial conditions for the function and its derivative The first elements for the y, D, and D2 arrays ... fundamental to our understanding of metals and semiconductors, and will be the subject of detailed studies in courses on physical electronics In nature, on the other hand, there is another family of particles ... y(2 N ) + y(2 N + 1)   that is, the weights are equal to for the first and last elements, equal to for even elements, and equal to for odd elements Example 4.7 Using Simpson’s rule, compute...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:21

... analytically MATLAB has a built-in command that finds all the roots (real and complex) for any polynomial equation As previously noted, the MATLAB command for finding the polynomial roots is roots: ... that it satisfies, and its value and that of its derivative at x = 0, namely: J ( x = 0) = and J ( x = 0) = ′ The problem that we want to solve is to find the zeros of J0(x) and compare to these ... The command is poly poly(r) In-Class Exercise Pb 5.14 Find the roots of the polynomial p = [1 pute their sum and product 3], and com- Pb 5.15 Consider the two polynomials: p1 = [1 3] and p2 =...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:21

... the double angle formula for the cosine function.) πn   pn (t) = A cos  ωt +   N  N −1 and P = ∑p n n= Another designation in use for a 110-V line is an rms value of 110, and not the value ... values for the lower and upper cutoff frequencies and the sampling time: f1 = 200 Hz; f2 = 400 Hz; τ = 10–5 s find f0 and plot the gain curve as function of the normalized frequency for the bandpass ... Analytically and numerically, obtain in the standard form an expression for each of the following quantities: a + 4j + 5j b 3+j (1 − j )(3 + j ) 1− 2j + j  − c   2j  2 + 3j Pb 6.9 For any pair...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:21

... element of the space; and b If a and b are constants, and ϕ and ψ are elements belonging to the space, then a ϕ + b ψ is also an element of the space There is an inner (dot) product for any two elements ... by CRC Press LLC for − ≤ x ≤ a for a < x ≤ (7.112) Solution: The conditions for the above theorem are satisfied, and  cl = l +  1 2 ∫ P (x)dx a l (7.113) From Eq (7.96), and noting that Pl(1) ... if and only if the two vectors are linearly dependent (i.e., one vector is equal to a scalar multiplied by the other vector) Example 7.7 Show that for any three non-zero numbers, u1, u2, and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:21

... C = 0.25 F, and L = H: a Write the equations for the phasors of the voltages and currents b Form the matrix representation for the equations found in part (a) c Plot the magnitude and phase of ... primary tool for understanding and solving physical problems at the atomic and subatomic scales In this section, we define these matrices and find key properties of their eigenvalues and eigenvectors ... as these form the tools for the matrix formulation of ray optics and Gaussian optics, which are two of the major sub-fields of photonics engineering Example 8.16 Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:21

... origin and with reflection about the x- or y-axis Inversion about other points or reflection about other than the coordinate axes can be deduced from a composition of the present transformations and ... matrix form, this transformation can be represented by: −1 P= 0 0 −1  (9.2) • For the reflection about the x-axis, denoted by Px, and the reflection about the y-axis, denoted by Py , the transformation ... transformation matrix for simultaneously compressing the x-coordinate by a factor of 2, while expanding the y-coordinate by a factor of Apply this transformation to the trapezoid of Example 9.1 and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:21

... same results by noting that the events E and O (B and C) are disjoint and that their union spanned the set S Therefore, the probabilities for events O and C could have been deduced, as well, through ... components have unequal values Therefore, while a can have any of 10 possible values, b can have only 9, and c can have only Therefore, n(A) = × × 10, and the probability for the event A is P( A) = × ... equal to 2b, the foci are located at (h – c, k) and (h + c, k), and those of the vertices at (h – a, k) and (h + a, k) In this case, c > a > and c > b > and c = a2 + b2 (S.13) Geometric Definition...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:21

... find sc and tc for L1 and L2 If

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:23

... and iii ii and iii I and ii all of the above question: _ is spontaneous and non-reflective and often includes indiscriminate use of insight, prejudice, truth and error, and good and bad reasoning ... thinking for you? i Be added on to everything else ii Provide tools of the mind for college and life iii Improve reasoning through short and long term goals answer a answer b answer c answer d i and ... standard each week, and keeps a journal Which stage of critical thinking development is Bess in? answer a Beginning thinking stage answer b Unreflective thinking stage answer c Practicing thinking...

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2017, 16:26

... Elisabeth and Erwin Andler, for their love, trust, support and never-ending faith in me Tools for Project Management, Workshops and Consulting A must-have compendium of essential tools and techniques ... have been edited, tools have been upgraded and expanded, and many good tools have been added Collaboration with other consultants made it clear that there was a lack of tools for the accurate ... as the ‘Andler best-pratice list of tools , a TOP 10 list of the most preferred tools and an overview of project management planning and scoping tools have been added There are 23 new tools in...

Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2013, 18:11