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From: beatlemaniac on 3 May 2010 20:35
I am given this question about the tacoma bridge collapse. For the first part you have to ask the user for two inputs, the wind velocity (in Km/h) and initial orientation (in degrees).
Your program then has to calculate the position and current orientation over a time of your choice (and of intervals within that time of your choice)

How would you go about calculating the current position and orientation, from just given the inital orientation, wind velocity and the time interval.
From: TideMan on 4 May 2010 01:28
On May 4, 4:35 pm, beatlemaniac <mstanton2...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I am given this question about the tacoma bridge collapse. For the first part you have to ask the user for two inputs, the wind velocity (in Km/h) and initial orientation (in degrees).
> Your program then has to calculate the position and current orientation over a time of your choice (and of intervals within that time of your choice)
>
> How would you go about calculating the current position and orientation, from just given the inital orientation, wind velocity and the time interval..

This homework question goes to show that there is nothing new in this
world.
We were set the exact same problem in our Civil Engineering Structures
course back in 1967, or thereabouts.
Back then, we didn't have the Internet where we had the opportunity to
ask experts and thereby avoid solving the problem ourselves. We had
to study our lecture notes, read stuff in the library, then sit down
with a pencil and paper and figure it out ourselves.
Then, if we needed to use a computer to solve it, we'd have to write
the program in Fortran, punch each line onto Hollerith cards and
submit the deck of cards to the mainframe. A day or so later we'd get
the results back.

As a result of the efforts my colleagues and I put in back then
solving this and other problems ourselves, we've had a lifetime of
interesting jobs.
I suggest you do the same beatlemaniac.
The alternative is jobs such as are advertised here:
http://mcdonalds.co.nz/#/careers
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