Is this helpful? Challenging? Boring?

[KeithYoung]

A few of you guys know I have a website I've been building, which is due to my mild frustration at gaps we have in the community. We have this awesome page (my go to page), Scarbs, and others, which have great stuff. The problem was I didn't know of a place that actually applied to Motorsports Engineering in the stricter mathematical Engineering sense.

Most of my articles are rather math intensive and require at least some knowledge of Calculus. My newest article is a good representation of what I THINK will help my target audience (some of you).

I do this to help, and I need feedback to know if this stuff is interesting, too technical, too simple, helpful, almost helpful, or boring. I've gotten a few emails from some of you and others off this site, but not enough feedback to justify the amount of work it takes to write these articles, build the site, and pay for the hosting.

Possibly part of the problem is requiring an account to post a comment due to the spam comments I was getting at first.

Could you guys check out this article, and maybe another 1 or 2 that are most interesting, and let me know if this is helpful enough to you or if I should put my time to better use ?

Applied Math Example - Definate Integral - Distance Traveled by F1 car under Braking

Thanks

[N12ck]

Very very good, I study engineering at university and this is all understandable and very useful/ interesting.

Please continue your good work, its very good

[KeithYoung]

Glad to hear it. Any topics you are interested in?

You'll understand this but many here might not, it's really tough to compare the Lotus' this to Ferrari's that. The main thing I do at my site is take a small piece of something, and make enough assumptions that I can analyze it without CFD supercomputing or 5 PhDs.

Always open to requests and suggestions.

Thanks for the feedback

[MadMatt]

Will read that tomorrow, just had a quick look but some Wolfram Alpha app and maths applied to racing, you've got my attention. Will be a good refresh, I'm sure!

[KeithYoung]

Cool, thanks Matt.

Looking for any feedback or requests.

[Callum]

I like the site a lot

Keep it up!

[Just_a_fan]

Looks interesting, well done.

Interested in your description of km/h as "English Units". The correct name is "metric units" and they are defined by an international system called SI units. Miles per hour are English Units (you chaps over the pond borrowed them from us and never gave them back when you went your own way ).

One could argue that English Units are actually Latin Units as the Romans brought the idea of the mile with them but only the UK, US and Canada use miles much these days. Everyone else has, quite sensibly, gone to the metric system. The UK uses a mixture of English (or Imperial as its known here) and metric. Most can move between the two quite happily and this is increasing as the old guard die off. The US seem to be the last real hold-outs against a global standard method of measurement.

One little irony about the attitude to metric in the UK is that certain conservative and / or old people are against it because "it's foreign/French" (depending on how specific their disgust is). What they forget (or never knew) is that the old system they want was actually foreign anyway, brought in by the Romans (again) and variously adjusted and added to by kings following the Norman Conquest (that'll be more of those beastly foreigners again then chaps!). Makes me laugh when I hear people saying "we should keep the British pound and ounce"...

Sorry, I digress. Nice looking site. =D>

[krisfx]

I like this a lot, I struggle with math in Uni sometimes because I find it hard when nothing is applied to anything that interests me.

[KeithYoung]

Looks interesting, well done.

Interested in your description of km/h as "English Units". The correct name is "metric units" and they are defined by an international system called SI units. Miles per hour are English Units (you chaps over the pond borrowed them from us and never gave them back when you went your own way ).

One could argue that English Units are actually Latin Units as the Romans brought the idea of the mile with them but only the UK, US and Canada use miles much these days. Everyone else has, quite sensibly, gone to the metric system. The UK uses a mixture of English (or Imperial as its known here) and metric. Most can move between the two quite happily and this is increasing as the old guard die off. The US seem to be the last real hold-outs against a global standard method of measurement.

One little irony about the attitude to metric in the UK is that certain conservative and / or old people are against it because "it's foreign/French" (depending on how specific their disgust is). What they forget (or never knew) is that the old system they want was actually foreign anyway, brought in by the Romans (again) and variously adjusted and added to by kings following the Norman Conquest (that'll be more of those beastly foreigners again then chaps!). Makes me laugh when I hear people saying "we should keep the British pound and ounce"...

Sorry, I digress. Nice looking site. =D>

I'll have to look at the article, but that's not what I meant. English is MPH etc (not sure why it's called English, since it's America that uses it) and Metric/SI is km.

Most of my readers will want metric units but some will want English, which is why I try to include them in my articles.

So I'll check the wording on that article, and thanks for the interesting history lesson

You may find this interesting.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y[/youtube]

[KeithYoung]

I like this a lot, I struggle with math in Uni sometimes because I find it hard when nothing is applied to anything that interests me.

Very glad to hear that krisfx! That's what I struggled with, and that's one of the main reasons I made the site.

Do you have any requests? In the near future I intend to do double integral articles and a differential equations article.

[KeithYoung]

I could use your guys help here. I'm making a list of mathematical methods, and real world uses. I've only just started the list and will need help organizing it and filling in the many many blanks it still has. I'm literally starting to go through the thousands of dollars in textbooks I have and updating the list.

Another important thing is how to organize this. Should I have many many layers in the list, such as:

Calculus
Integral
Definate Integral
Indef Int
x
Differentiation
Implicit
Explicit
x
x
etc?

Or just something more like:

Calc
Int
Def Int
Indef Int
x

Applied Math Examples List - Methods - Real World Uses

[Just_a_fan]

We still use MPH here too.

You may find this interesting.

I did. Funny how circular the definition of the kilogramme had become and now they're going to use a 3d circle to define it. There is a certain poetry to that

My view would be that your articles should use SI units/definitions in the first instance with non-SI units explained as a side margin/note. That way you would cover the largest audience with your main work. Perhaps a short tutorial on units - and why they are so important to get right - would be a useful addition to your site? A useful trick is using units to check rearranged equations, for example.

[Just_a_fan]

One small spelling correction: it's "definite" not "definate"

[KeithYoung]

Yeah that's a great idea. Plus you just gave me one of those movie moments where someone says something then the other says "You're a GENIUS" and does something sort of different

I can potentially make Wolfram Alpha Widgets on that page for all the unit conversions! Even I'd use that, particularly when writing and including both unit systems.

[KeithYoung]

One small spelling correction: it's "definite" not "definate"

Thanks, fixed.