Engineering Solution Manuals
July 27, 2008 by Adam
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As a Mechanical Engineering student, I know how hard it can be to do homework assignments without a little help. I have spent hours trying to figure out how to even start a homework assignment, but then I learned the secret! You must have a solution manual! Engineering students don’t use solution manuals to cheat, but rather to give direction. A solution manual is no different than reviewing the practice problem from your class notes, but instead of one example you have hundreds of examples. If used properly a solutions manual is an invaluable tool. It might be easy to use solution manuals as a method to cheat on homework, but the reality is that if a student uses a solution manual to cheat, they aren’t going to do well on the tests. I believe solution manuals should come standard with every textbook purchase. Another great reason to have a solution manual is to have a nearly unlimited supply of practice problems for a test. It in a common practice for instructors to give homework solutions and previous test solutions, but many times these limited number of solutions are inadequate to truly grasp the process of solving the problems. One professor I had would assign 10-15 problems per week, but would only require 3-4 to be completed for a grade. This was a great philosophy in that he assigned and gave solutions to problems in which he felt were good to learn the material, but didn’t require that all of them were completed as that would be too much work. What my professor was essentially doing, was giving a solutions manual for free to his students. The class was no easier than any other class and the tests were still difficult, but all of the students had a better grasp of the material because they were able to practice the problems with solutions.
I have found both ebay and half.com are great resources for finding solutions on the internet, so I created a site for Solution Manuals so people can easily find the solution manuals all categorized and indexed from ebay and half.com. I have categorizes for math solutions, engineering solutions, physics solutions, biology solutions and many more. I plan on eventually adding a forum for people to share and discuss solution manuals.
5 Reasons why I blog
May 14, 2007 by Adam
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I was tagged by my friend over at NotSoBoringLife and this seemed like a fun and interested one to participate in, so here we go. These are in now particular order.
1. Fuel for my imagination – My goal in blogging is to use it as means to help me succeed in whatever I do. By writing about various things that have to do with success, I challenge my mind to think of new creative things. The more active my imagination is the greater my potential success will be.
2. Hobby - I have always liked web design and have designed and run several website’s. So starting a blog was just a continuation of my hobby. I started out designing a custom wordpress template which didn’t work that well, because at the time I didn’t understand what made wordpress templates good or bad. But it all started with the desire to build a custom blog.
3. Money – Making money while doing something you like is always awesome. So this is part of the reason I blog, because it gives me potential to make money while working with website’s and design. I tested out trying to monetize my blog at the beginning with just Google adsense and the results were poor, so I have cut back for now.
4. Image - To me image is pretty important and that is why I wrote the Image is Everything series. Image also motivates me to have this blog and try to make something that is a success. Improve my image is like improving my life resume.
5. Entrepreneurial Spirit - If not for anything else, it is just because of my desire to do things that have the potential of making me a financial stable successful person while I work for myself.
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blogging, tagged, why I blogHopeless Romantic Challenge Link Love
May 12, 2007 by Adam
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Well, since I wrote about the the Hopeless Romantic Challenge I have received 4 links, so in exchange I am doing my first batch of mini reviews to thank the people for helping me with my challenge. If you want to have a mini review from a PR 4 site, go to the Hopeless Romantic Challenge.
Hidden Conspiracies -Dirty Little Secrets
At first sight, I thought this blog was about unusual conspiracies and phenomenon like you would hear on Coast to Coast AM, but no it is just an intriguing attention getter title. This blog is really about a journey of a guy who wants to be a millionaire by 30. He writes about making money on the internet and miscellaneous ramblings. It is much like John Chow’s site in a way, but very unique as well. I really like his writing style.
This blog was fun to view, because there is something about pink and cute attractive girl. I must say that I already like this blog a lot. It is on my bookmarks as of yesterday, because you never know what kind of interesting stuff Jenna will talk about. She posts sometimes 5 posts in a single day and has interesting stuff like Energy Pills to replace your coffee in the morning or a cool free site that makes it easy to sign-up for contests on the internet. If you are looking for good random sites and information, Jenna’s Blog is the place to go. I look forward to seeing what next she might write about.
The author of PixelHead blog, Adam, has really been one of my best supporters of my blog and we have the same name, so I like this guy and his blog too. He wrote about my challenge, because he knew I would like his true love story about him and his future wife. Adam has topics about almost everything from Home Improvement to Las Vegas. He also runs a Directory which will list you site for a link in return. Go check out his blog and say “Hi”! He seems to be a really friendly nice guy that is always willing to go to distance for friends. Thanks Adam.
If you are looking to use a bank for anything such as loans, saving or checking accounts, credit cards or whatever, ThePiggyBanker is the place to check out first. At the PiggyBanker, you will find the highest CD rates, the best credit card deals, the best savings accounts, and valuable advice on money management.
Hopeless Romantic, link loveIt is Finals Day.
May 11, 2007 by Adam
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Do you remember your college days? Well it is that time of year were I have to crunch down for finals. Luckily I really only have today being a terrible hard day, thus the reason, I am writing a post so early. I have been up since 5am. But hey at the end of the day it will be Summer Vacation. Stick around for some great posts tomorrow that continue the “Image is Everything Series“.
Adam
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