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What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 2 points 8 months 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.

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