/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread - No Spergs Allowed Edition

For the rare polisci people who dare to post here

Say a future environment that proceeds ours by two centuries is filled with extremism and each nation's political faction is more linear, say North Korea levels of fanaticism for that particular government.

Would it be possible for these people to be so intensive in their rules, that they completely tide over after the 'bubble bursts' to their opposite?
For example, communism becoming so extreme it becomes feudalism.
Or syndicalism becoming so warped it becomes anarcho-capitalist?

Shit, crazy story man. Hope your health is good now. What's your end goal? You want to work in public research with just an undergrad? That's pretty hard. You're doing pure or applied math research?

How do I get a hand of trigonometry?
I'm currently in third year and somehow I still don't have a solid background in it. Any recommendations and tips?

It's so counter-intuitive to me somehow

Which parts specifically?

Basics. I know about unit-circle, sin/cos/tan and so on but I just memorize the shit. I can't derive it from scratch out of logic. It's really annoying.

Basically I would love to learn it properly from scratch. Maybe someone will hand out some gud ressources or whatever they have. I would be eternally thankful

If I have an electrically powered propulsion system that produces 4N/kW, what equation would I use to figure out the power-to-weight ratio I would need from a power source to produce the necessary thrust needed to accelerate it (the engine) at 9.8m/s^2? Assume all other components are weightless.

I know this is simple algebra, but I just can't mentally arrange the terms in the right order no matter how hard I try.

Accelerate the power source rather, not the engine.

hey Veeky Forums

I recently did a year of computer science
don't get me wrong it's my favourite hobby but holy shit they teach fuck all in it and everyone complains "waa waa waa algorithms waa waa waa" -- and my university is known for being quite theoretical so it's not like we're doing boring intro to java shit only -- but we get a good balance imo, but they should also push students a bit harder.
So I'm going to transfer into pure maths instead, and self teach computer science on the side, maybe pick some mathsy units from the faculty because that stuff is pretty interesting,

anyway enough of my life story / blog. I find group theory really interesting and that kind of stuff, is there any recommended readings for learning about abstract algebra and whatnot.

Sorry for the dumb post I'm not a regular on Veeky Forums, used to go on /g/ a lot but then I quit lol..

It's the guy on the left because he has the same haircut as me.

no need to make this so personal, your post comes off as awkward

but it also comes off as honest and open, so here's some suggestions. Artin's Algebra is a classic book, but might be a bit dated. Dummit and Foote's Algebra is a very common undergrad book. My favorite is Rotman's "A first course ...". Any should do it for you, check out all three, read a bit, and pick one without much thought into it. Then read and do the exercises.