• clif@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Not an engineer but I took calculus 1, 2, 3, discrete math, linear algebra, statics, dynamics, and probably others I’m forgetting.

      Since school, I needed one trig function for calculating distance between lat/long coordinates that I looked up on Wikipedia and plugged in to a program.

      … Statics was fucking cool though.

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        4 hours ago

        Statics is good fun. That was one of those courses i spent 40-50hrs a week on.

        That knowledge is great for other applications too. For example, it helps with visualizing of how tension laid in fallen trees on saw crews for trail maintenance.

        I still use statics at work but i could in theory get by with just basic FEA guess and check.