Articles — Project / Lab Report

Este trabalho tem a missão de explicar alguns temas de sistemas distribuídos, estes sistemas são fundamentais para a comunicação, integração e processamento de dados via internet ou rede local. Ao longo do trabalho abordaremos os principais tópicos tais como: WebServices, Padrões de Sockets entre outros.

Vibration control is crucially important in ensuring a smooth ride for vehicle passengers. This study sought to design a suspension system for a car such that its mode of vibration would be predominantly bouncing at lower speeds, and primarily pitching at higher speeds. Our study used analytical and numerical methods to choose appropriate springs and dampers for the front and rear suspension. After an initial miscalculation, we succeeded in arriving at appropriate shocks for the vehicle with the desired modes of vibration at the specified frequencies. We then assessed the maximum bouncing and pitching that the vehicle would experience under a specific set of conditions: travel at 40 km/hr over broken, rough terrain. Our testing showed moderate success in our suspension design. We successfully damped the force being transmitted to both the front and rear quarter car somewhat, while ensuring that the modes of vibration fell into the desired shapes at the desired frequency ranges.

The purpose of this lab was to illustrate the validity of the law of conservation of energy along with the determination of the spring constant of a given spring. For the first part the spring constantk was to be found from a given spring. Through the suspension of various known metal masses on a vertically suspended spring, the spring constant was determined. Two methods were used: the algebraic rearrangement of Hooke's Law and a slope analysis of a linear regression on a Force (N) against Stretch Length (m) scatter plot. The spring constant k was determined to be 26.438 ± 1.063. For the second part of the lab, the aim was to validate the law of conservation of energy through the oscillation of a vertically suspended spring. Data was collected using a Vernier Motion Detector 2 machine and the various energies (kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy and spring potential energy) were collected and summed up. The sum of these energies yielded a fairly constant energy total (2.287 J ± 0.025 J) which supports the authenticity of the law of conservation of energy. While there were some uncertainties due to the lab setup, human error and equipment error it did not affect the validity of the methods during experimentation. Overall, the spring constant k of a given spring was determined and the law of conservation of energy was validated through the calculation of total energy during a suspended mass' oscillation.

This work is going to analyze the Forced Van Der Pol's Equation which is used to analyze the electric circuit. In 1927, Balthasar Van Der Pol observed the stable oscillation and heard some irregular noise in vacuum tube circuit. He then proposed the Forced Van Der Pol's Equation to analyze the circuit and suggested the concept of limit cycle and Chaos to explain his observation. In this work, We would like to analyze behavior of the model by observing the phase space, time series, bifurcation diagram and power spectrum. Those points in the figures are calculated by Runge-Kutta Method with the aid of MATLAB. For a better understanding, the RLC circuit, which is a electric circuit consisting the a resistor, an inductor and a capacitor, will be used as an example for explaining the properties. Apart from electric circuit, the Forced Van Der Pol's Equation can be applied to dynamic systems in different aspect, such as the artificial heart, economic market and so on. Therefore, we suggest this work to all students since the Forced Van Der Pol's Equation can be applied to many majors, like Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Sociology, Biology, Engineering and so on.

Math project.

Trabalho Sistemas Distribuidos

We explore ways of allowing for the offloading of computationally rigorous tasks from devices with slow logical processors onto a network of anonymous peer-processors. Recent advances in secret sharing schemes, decentralized consensus mechanisms, and multiparty computation (MPC) protocols are combined to create a P2P MPC market. Unlike other computational "clouds", ours is able to generically compute any arithmetic circuit, providing a viable platform for processing on the semantic web. Finally, we show that such a system works in a hostile environment, that it scales well, and that it adapts very easily to any future advances in the complexity theoretic cryptography used. Specifically, we show that the feasibility of our system can only improve, and is historically guaranteed to do so.

Artigo de pesquisa

This project explores the predictability of play-calling of the Simpson College football offense during the years of 2012-2014. The models used to assess the predictability include simple analysis as well as linear and logistic regression.