Mathematics Society

A Westland student society for mathematics scholarship and excellence.

The Mathematics Society of Westland was started 1976 by Dr. Laura Trautz to provide enrichment and challenges for students who demonstrate a strong interest and ability in mathematics. The club meets every Monday year-round in Cilo Hall. At club meetings, students work both on their own and in groups to solve problems from multiple areas of mathematics. There are also presentations of topics deemed to be of special interest to our members.

The Society supports travel by students to mathematical and scientific meetings, workshops, conferences and symposiums throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. In recent years our members have attended events sponsored by the American Algebraic Institute, the Northwestern Canadian Physics Club and the University of Krakow.

How do I solve this equation?

h(x) = [Integral from 0 to x^2] of cos(t^2) dt

Show h'(x) = 2xcos(x^4)

What is the center of math? How does one build mathematics from scratch?

(I don;t know anything)

New way to harvest energy discovered

Paris - Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology said they had built a prototype device that converts stop-start movement into power.

   Waves, walking and dancing could one day be harnessed to drive sensors, mobile gadgets or even electricity plants, said professor of materials science and engineering Zhong Lin Wang.

   Scientists in the United States said that such clean reliable power lies within reach, thanks to a smart way to harvest energy called tribo-electricity.

   The term "tribo-electric" refers to electricity created from friction between two substances, causing a charge of electrons to be transferred from one to the other. Because tribo-electric is so unpredictable, it has been generally shunned as a power source in favour of magnetic induction - a turbine driven by nuclear - or fossil-powered steam or water.

   But in a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, Prof Wang's team said they had overcome key hurdles to converting a haphazardly generated electrical charge into current.

AFP

Awesome Tech: LightUp Uses Augmented Reality to Teach Kids How to Build Electronics : http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/06/23/cool-lightup-ar-kit-teaches-kids-electronics

Teach them to think

Solutions-focused coaching results in proactive and high-performing sales teams.

Coach your sales to find their own solutions

RECENTLY, I was delivering a programme for the government sales unit of a national telecommunications company about selling in price-conscious markets.

   I quoted Socrates, who said, "I cannot teach anyone anything, I can only make them think," and there were some sceptical looks among the account managers.

   "We need to learn how to qualify leads," I imagined them thinking.

   I elaborated: "It might be more helpful if you thought through this situation rather than me giving you a solution, because what works for me (and other sales professionals) may not work for you. Let me help you think this through."

   Then, I had the unit working together in a group exercise and they experienced the benefits of solutions-focused sales coaching.

   Here are some powerful questions you could ask that will help your sales team overcome day-to-day challenges and find their own solutions:

Platform

Start with building the platform, where your sales team is now (not qualifying leads).

You could ask: "What do you want to achieve? What would be the payoff for solving this problems?" How will you know that we have made some progress?

"Future Perfect"

Help your sales team see how the future will be different when the problem is no longer there.

You could ask: "What if this problem went away overnight? How would you know? What will you be doing? What would be the first small signs?"

Counters

These help your sales team members start seeing the strengths they already possess, that will help them move towards the solution.

You could ask: "When does this solution happen already? What are examples of the solution happening already, complete or in part? Which parts of your 'future perfect' happen at the moment? What are you already doing that's helping? What's working for you?"

Affirm

Even the most challenging situations have positive examples of coping that can be drawn out and affirmed.

You could say: "I'm impressed with how you reached the decision-maker." You could then ask: "How did you do that? When you've faced situations with gatekeepers before, how have you handled them?"

Scaling

Scaling questions can help measure how close your sales team is to desired goals, ranging from the "worst the problem has ever been" (zero) to "the best things could possibly be" (10).

You could ask: "On a scale of 0 to 10, if 10 is the 'future perfect' and 0 is the complete opposite, where are you now? What tells you that you are at 'n' on the scale rather than a 0? What is the highest you've ever been on that scale? When was that? How did you do that?"

Small actions

The goal is for your sales team to repeat what has worked in the past and gain confidence in making improvements in the future.

You could ask: "Suppose you were one point higher on the scale. How would you know you were one point higher? What would you be doing more of, less of, or differently? What's the next small step for you to take?"

Review

Asking your sales team members to summarise their action plan will result in greater accountability and ownership.

You could ask: "What actions will you take as a result of our conversation? How can you stay on track?" Reassure them that by sticking to the plan, you are positive they are going to succeed!

   Working with sales leaders and professionals, I have noticed that solutions-focused sales coaching helps teams focus on what's working, and results in more autonomous, proactive and high-performing sales teams.

There are 3 core issues that most people face when trying to achieve success in anything they want, and if you sort those out, your whole life will change.

The 3 issues are:

1. They cant get the laws of success  to work for them or;

2. They don't know what to do as theres so much information or;

3. They don't have the time or energy to put things into place

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As you all know, if you have two identical soundwaves where one of them is 180 degrees out of phase, the sound will be eleminated or neutralized.

Does it exsist a program that recieve sound from the microphone, and generates a 180 degrees out of phase soundwave out the speakers?

It would help me studying, since my neighbor have bad taste in music.

Thanks in advantage.

animals have no language and thus cannot possess the ordered thought of humans and are instead based purely on raw emotion. if this is tailored to a situation, say, a person who owns a cat and the emotions of the cat are inclined to complete submission to the owner, the cat and human will both have happier lives.