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Martin Kennedy d67eebd7f0 feat: Initial compilation; sections; complaint.
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\title{Lab 3, EE3150}
\author{Martin Kennedy and DJ}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
In this lab, we investigate the response of a circuit (seen in figure
\ref{img:circuit_diagram}) to different sinusoidal signals. We apply
both symbolic analysis and numeric analysis (simulation) to affirm
that this causal LTI system will always generate a sinusoidal response
of the same frequency as that provided to it.
\begin{figure}[h]
\caption{A diagram of our two-stage RC circuit, with a fixed-gain amplifier between the two stages to act as a buffer}
\label{img:circuit_diagram}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{circuit_diagram}
\end{figure}
\section{Discussion}
\section{Measurement data and/or Results}
\section{Discusison of Measurements, experiments and/or simulations}
\section{Summary and Conclusions}
\subsection{A complaint}
Cut the standard lab format. I wrote this as a complaint before I
really started working on this lab.
I'm going to be frank with you:
Completing these labs is painful.
The lab description itself is 16 pages long.
Every part of the lab reads the same way a 4'' paintbrush dunked in a
bucket of red paint and splattered across a wall looks.
The writer gives a thousand times more information than you need, and
instructs you to do things .... a million things.
And then, at the end of the lab, a description of what you're actually
supposed to submit is given. The two are so loosely connected ... it
means there is no one good strategy to break things down and start
working. You just have to keep reading and re-reading, looking for
parts or aspects you haven't covered, and then you have to sew all
those harvested organs of incomplete understanding into a cadaver,
packing dozens of lungs, livers and kidneys in however they'll fit, as
though enough organs will bring a corpse to life.
I had a much better time understanding it, now that I'm re-reading the
whole thing very carefully and following the math being demonstrated,
but it's no wonder everyone hates these labs.
It's insanely punishing if you haven't read the lab before you start
doing the procedure.
Did I mention that the lab description (which contains the procedure)
isn't released until 15 minutes before the Lab section?
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