[vcf-midatlantic] Final class schedule for this Friday
Herb Johnson
hjohnson at retrotechnology.info
Tue Apr 12 19:52:17 EDT 2016
It's certainly reasonable to ask presenters to post their abstracts,
some may have done so already.
Brian L. Stuart said:
> My early class is Analog Computer Basics. I plan to go though
> the basic idea of electronic computing without bits. The first
> few minutes will be a quick overview of key ideas in electrical
> engineering. The second segment will look at using operational
> amplifiers to create mathematical building blocks. The remainder
> of the presentation will go through an example of modeling a
> simple physical system and illustrating it on a Comdyna GP-6.
I welcome this presentation. By age I'm the last of the engineers who
might have even SEEN analog computers in use. I operated one and saw
another in use to model a chemical plant. These are a different world of
computation from digital logic.
I suggest anyone interested in this talk, do a quick read about
"differential equations" first. That's the equivalent of telling someone
"learn Boolean logic before looking at TTL circuits". If that's too
abstract, look up how a pendulum works, a bouncing ball, stuff like that
are all differential equations at work.
Herb
change is good
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