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I'm a cs person and never encountered this in school. Is this taught in engineering? Typical course names?

• btilly 13y ago
  As a math person, I look at this and think "Fourier series". I encountered the ideas in both Classical Mechanics 1 (third year physics course where I took it) and Differential Equations (third year math course where I took it). It is still a nice visualization.
  • diydsp 13y ago
    It's very close to Fourier series, but since the "solutions" (the equilibria) are not integer multiples of a fundamental, but solutions to a 3-dimensional wave equation, it's more like "wave equation."
    • btilly 13y ago
      From a mathematician's point of view it is a Fourier series. You have the property that any starting state can be divided into the sum of orthogonal components. No matter how complex the components are, that's still a Fourier series. A physicist would disagree, I am sure. But to a mathematician, an orthonormal wavelet basis is also a Fourier series.
• leephillips 13y ago
  "Physics".
• ndr 13y ago
  System Analysis and/or Control System.