No, this is not about copiers... well, per say. But it is about a ton of free information that's out there that I recently found out about and wanted to share with everyone else.
arXiv.org e-Print archive - Cornell University Library. This basically allows you to search the entire Cornell University Library of papers ranging in just about every topic you can think of. These are papers written by professors and students that have been published by Cornell. Very interesting stuff.
WisdomMarket - Product Listing - Free calculus topics covered. I can't do calculus, but would love to.
algebra.help -- Lessons Index - I am actually starting to teach myself, slowly, Algebra and Advanced Algebra.
Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare - This is MIT's Open Courseware program. It contains 1800 courses online for FREE!! This is real courseware that is used in the actually classes. My favorite section is Free Online MIT Course Materials | Physics | MIT OpenCourseWare
What got me turned on to all these links above is my long time love of phyiscs. No, I am not mathematician or anything like that. But from the beginning, I have always loved science and when I first learned that some one could actually figure out how our world actually works blew me away. Then, when I learned about theoretical physics, it just took my breath away to think that someone can think about how something "might" work and use math to see if they were right or wrong. And if they were worng, again using math, they can see why... and so forth.
I have always loved watching documentaries covering astronomy, astrophysics, etc... Well, a few months ago I purchased Michio Kaku's "Parallel Worlds" and it was a fascinating read. It really changed the way I think about everyday actions and our world around us. Then, a few weeks ago, I bought Brian Greene's "Fabric of the Comos". This book has really blown me away. I am currently only on Chapter 4, but reading these books are not the same as sitting down with a good novel. It goes more like - You pick up the book, read a page or two, then put it down and look up at your wife in a blank stair because your world, or the understanding of it, just changed dramatically.
It can sometimes take several hours for some of this stuff to really sink in. I mean, it can be hard to wrap your brain around the fact that although you feel as though you are currently sitting still, you are not. You are actually accelerating at the speed of light against the chair you are sitting in. And when you move (or change direction in your direction of movement), such as getting up from your computer stating that I am crazy, you are actually slowing down.
Anyway... enough of my rambling! Enjoy the links above and if you like to use this as on the job training, find articles on Maxwell's equations or the electromagnetic force. Maxwell's equations actually help a great deal in understanding what is going on in a copier so far as charge voltages relating to drum surface voltage readings and so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations - sorry, couldn't help it.
arXiv.org e-Print archive - Cornell University Library. This basically allows you to search the entire Cornell University Library of papers ranging in just about every topic you can think of. These are papers written by professors and students that have been published by Cornell. Very interesting stuff.
WisdomMarket - Product Listing - Free calculus topics covered. I can't do calculus, but would love to.
algebra.help -- Lessons Index - I am actually starting to teach myself, slowly, Algebra and Advanced Algebra.
Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare - This is MIT's Open Courseware program. It contains 1800 courses online for FREE!! This is real courseware that is used in the actually classes. My favorite section is Free Online MIT Course Materials | Physics | MIT OpenCourseWare
What got me turned on to all these links above is my long time love of phyiscs. No, I am not mathematician or anything like that. But from the beginning, I have always loved science and when I first learned that some one could actually figure out how our world actually works blew me away. Then, when I learned about theoretical physics, it just took my breath away to think that someone can think about how something "might" work and use math to see if they were right or wrong. And if they were worng, again using math, they can see why... and so forth.
I have always loved watching documentaries covering astronomy, astrophysics, etc... Well, a few months ago I purchased Michio Kaku's "Parallel Worlds" and it was a fascinating read. It really changed the way I think about everyday actions and our world around us. Then, a few weeks ago, I bought Brian Greene's "Fabric of the Comos". This book has really blown me away. I am currently only on Chapter 4, but reading these books are not the same as sitting down with a good novel. It goes more like - You pick up the book, read a page or two, then put it down and look up at your wife in a blank stair because your world, or the understanding of it, just changed dramatically.
It can sometimes take several hours for some of this stuff to really sink in. I mean, it can be hard to wrap your brain around the fact that although you feel as though you are currently sitting still, you are not. You are actually accelerating at the speed of light against the chair you are sitting in. And when you move (or change direction in your direction of movement), such as getting up from your computer stating that I am crazy, you are actually slowing down.
Anyway... enough of my rambling! Enjoy the links above and if you like to use this as on the job training, find articles on Maxwell's equations or the electromagnetic force. Maxwell's equations actually help a great deal in understanding what is going on in a copier so far as charge voltages relating to drum surface voltage readings and so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations - sorry, couldn't help it.