Writer's Block: Weekend Plans

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1. Type up solutions to example problems to send to the Heat Transfer class I'm a TA for.

2. Income taxes.

3. Homework (Finite Element Method class and Partial Differential Equations class).

4. Scan the micromechanics textbooks I borrowed to see if I want to do research in that direction.

5. Research the candidates for the primary on Tuesday.

Edit: Oh, and 6. Update the website for the UMD ASME chapter.

Yeah, this is going to be ... fun.

16.7% complete!

...I just finished Point Number One on my list. A PDF of three elementary heat transfer problems solved exactly, plus a long digression on root-finding algorithms that I wasn't actually qualified to write.

Dying now, kthxbai. *whump*

(P.S. I'm actually kinda proud of those five plots - the heat conduction equation turns out to be amenable to Fourier analysis, so I wrote some MATLAB code to calculate the first 200 frequencies and coefficients so I could determine the solution for any time t > 0.01 'seconds'.)

(P.P.S. Somehow I'm thinking I spent more than 20 hours this week on the class....)