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BJT

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    Aeronautical Engineering
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  1. I'm an engineer at a shipyard. I received a degree in Aerospace Engineering, but I wasn't a very good student. I could take tests well and get decent grades, but I did nothing like take advantage of the opportunities I had there, mostly because I wasn't passionate about what I was doing. Now, 12 years later I've discovered my passion, and it's space. Working for JPL on robotic missions to other planets would be my ideal job. I can be happy as en engineer. But I would like to be intimately involved in space exploration. To that end, I want to find an engineering job close to a good astronomy/planetary science school and then possibly take classes and get an advanced degree. I need to focus my job search on the geographic locations where the good schools are, but after googling it, it's hard to find which schools are ideal for this. Can anyone help? My math is not strong, though I understand the concepts well. I have a strong understanding of many of the sciences, at least for a lay person, due to years of reading magazines such as Discover and Sky and Telescope and the fact that I actually paid attention in high school and read lots of science books growing up.
  2. Sorry, that's not it, but thanks anyway. It was in a science/technology magazine.
  3. There was an article in a recent issue of Discover magazine, or some similar magazine, perhaps Popular Science or Sky and Telescope, but I'm pretty sure it was Discover. Maybe the June issue. But I'm going crazy trying to find it. It covered the Kepler project from its inception to now. I can't find it, and it's driving me INSANE! Can anyone help? I don't need a copy. If just need to know where it appears and I can get a copy.
  4. I'm not sure where to ask this. This is just something I've thought about and can't resolve. Let's say you had a bunch of liquid hydrogen, helium, or air. It doesn't matter. Something that condenses only at extremely low temperatures. Now let's say you put that liquid in a thick vessel and filled it up. What would happen when you let the temperature inside increase? Let's say the temperature increases to room temperature. Or maybe you're even heating it. What happens to the liquid inside assuming your pressure vessel is so think it cannot be breached. Or would the gas find a way out no matter how thick the vessel was? I'm a degreed engineer but I can't make any sense of this problem. The very intelligent engineer who sits next to me says the vessel would break because the liquid would have to expand once it reaches it's critical point, but he never explained clearly how it would do so if the vessel was thick enough that it could theoretically take the pressure.
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    I have just bought the James Stewart Calculus book, 5th edition. I used the 4th edition my freshman year in college. I got rid of my edition a while ago, and decided using the book I was familiar with would be good. But I've heard conflicting reviews of Stewart's book, some very bad. What are your thoughts on this book, if you have any? Thanks for the responses so far. Very helpful.
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    Textbooks

    I'm trying to refresh all of the mathematics I learned. I graduated with an engineering degree. What are the best college level textbooks for calculus? Also, I'd like to get a better handle on trig, algebra, geometry, ie., all the easy stuff. I remember a lot of the easy stuff, but I'd like to learn all the proofs so I can have a full understanding of it all, so I can know it like the back of my hand. My eventual goal is to go back to school to become a professional astronomer.
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