How much of the math is memorized versus just knowing where to look for answers?
Hypothetical: you have no access to paid tools for things like FEM and CFD, how do you accomplish your hobby project?
Solar panel challenge: What would you produce as a physical, marketable product of value as passive income based upon a mostly self contained system powered by a single solar panel? You may add precursors, but may not interact further until the cycle is complete. There is no other temporal constraint.
Lots of equations are memorized but ones that aren’t commonly used are forgotten after licensing testing. Anything you need to figure out can be looked up or a chart exists to simplify it. Mollier charts are a good example of this. If you’ve never seen one, definitely look it up.
I’ve never tried to design a hobby system. I just keep current ones running. Understanding every aspect of a boiler system that includes chillers, various boiler types, turbines, heating systems and emergency generators takes a considerable amount of time. Just to grasp what each component does and how it interacts with the rest of the system.
No idea, you’ll have to check shark tank for your next million dollar idea.
To answer your first question engineers usually add a two to three times safety factor to their equations so it doesn’t really matter they just make numbers up.
How much of the math is memorized versus just knowing where to look for answers?
Hypothetical: you have no access to paid tools for things like FEM and CFD, how do you accomplish your hobby project?
Solar panel challenge: What would you produce as a physical, marketable product of value as passive income based upon a mostly self contained system powered by a single solar panel? You may add precursors, but may not interact further until the cycle is complete. There is no other temporal constraint.
To answer your first question engineers usually add a two to three times safety factor to their equations so it doesn’t really matter they just make numbers up.