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Material / thoughts for an engineering website.

Material / thoughts for an engineering website.

Material / thoughts for an engineering website.

(OP)
Folks,

I am new to the forum and was hoping everyone out there could help me with a pet project I have recently been working on.

I have been an engineer since 1998 and in that time I have collected lots of little tit bits of useful information.

To try and share this and ensure that I didn't lose a lot of what I though was useful I decided to capture this information as part of a website.

It is early days with regard to the website and it's content however I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions for things / material I should try to include.

The website is:  www.mathscieng.co.uk.

Any suggestions and/or comments would be gratefully recieved.

Thanks in advance,

Hugh Miller Beng Ceng MIET

RE: Material / thoughts for an engineering website.

It's pretty commercial for a hobby site.

RE: Material / thoughts for an engineering website.

Just some nitnoids:

>  http://www.mathscieng.co.uk/Other_Info/Fundamental%20Constants.htm page lists constants that appear to be truncated, rather than rounded on the last significant digit.  While it's not terribly problematic, some people might see that as less than accurate and assume the same for the remainder of the site.  Overall, it would be normally desireable to list the full value from the CODATA table, rather than truncated or rounded values.  You might look at the US NIST site as a reference:
http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?bg|search_for=universal_in!

>  Usage of N.m^2/kg vs. N*m^2/kg.  No biggie, but, not standard

>  Units for speed of light are incorrect

>  Meters is capitalized in the gravitational constant's definition.

>  Permittivity of free space seems to have an extraneous mol^-12 in the units

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RE: Material / thoughts for an engineering website.

The heavy black font you've chosen is barely legible and is very wearing on the eyes. There's a reason TNR is popular and that it because it is easy to read!

Good luck.
 

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RE: Material / thoughts for an engineering website.

(OP)
>  http://www.mathscieng.co.uk/Other_Info/Fundamental%20Constants.htm page lists constants that appear to be truncated, rather than rounded on the last significant digit.  While it's not terribly problematic, some people might see that as less than accurate and assume the same for the remainder of the site.  Overall, it would be normally desireable to list the full value from the CODATA table, rather than truncated or rounded values.  You might look at the US NIST site as a reference:
http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?bg|search_for=universal_in!

>  Usage of N.m^2/kg vs. N*m^2/kg.  No biggie, but, not standard

>  Units for speed of light are incorrect

>  Meters is capitalized in the gravitational constant's definition.

>  Permittivity of free space seems to have an extraneous mol^-12 in the units

IRStuff, thanks for the tips / feedback.  I've update the page and hopefully it is more accurate now.

Thanks again,

Hugh

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