We Need a Math Teacher / Resident Math Guru

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Zipper730

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This technical section is very math intensive and I'm curious if there's any member here who's a math teacher in their non WW2-Aircraft life, or is good enough to volunteer as our resident math guru?

BTW: Not sure if there's any rules against this
 
That makes two of us.
Zipper asked what "ẟ" means as he had seen it in some equations. I offered a simple explanation, so zipper starts a thread asking for a better teacher or guru. He doesnt mention that he will put no effort at all into learning, not even googling "ẟ" and if the guru cant boil every equation down to a yes/no answer then he isn't a good teacher. This has been going on for years here. To say I am "pissed" would be an understatement.
 
Thank you. Now I can at least make sense of this.
 
Thank you. Now I can at least make sense of this.
I appreciate the contributions of some of the very learned people here, and some spent years learning what they know. Usually, with some effort I understand the principles of what they are posting and that is all I want to know, you will not be surprised to hear I am not about to build my own aircraft from scratch. I dont demand that they make it more simple for me because in most cases I know they have already done as much as they can in that direction. If you dont understand the basics of equations, quadratic and inverse functions then it cannot be simplified so that you can.
 
Uh, that's not why I asked this. It's just there's a lot of math based questions here, so I figured...
You did not even acknowledge my post. You lifted equations from a tutorial that walks you though the basis of what it is explaining and what all the symbols mean and then ask a reader to justify it, without the explanations in the tutorial.
 
You did not even acknowledge my post. You lifted equations from a tutorial that walks you though the basis of what it is explaining and what all the symbols mean and then ask a reader to justify it, without the explanations in the tutorial.
I didn't understand what all the variables even stood for, so I couldn't make sense of it.
 
The best option I was given by an experienced flyer was to get the book "Modern Airmanship" (L von Sickle). This has allowed me
to look at subjects with a good explanation and some maths that I can look up elsewhere if I need to.

Best thing is I can understand more of what is being posted here without others having to go round in circles trying to show me what they
mean. By combining the two I am learning heaps more. Thanks to those who are researching and posting so much too (Tanks are more
my field).

This book can be loaned first from openlibrary.org. All you need is a login and you can loan for two weeks to read on the screen as you go.
A great way to see if it suits before you buy. There are a number of aircraft specific books available for loan right down to books specifically
on subjects such as propellers and the Hispano engines among many others.
 
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