18th Month of PostGrad

This is the time of the year where productivity will get lower events on campus are rising. Something new is that I'm back to class, Structural Vibration 2 that I didn't took during final year and my supervisor recommended me to attend. Thank God I don't have to sit for the paper, I would have screw this up if I took it.

My workstation and lecture notes:

I thought it was tough to write my own Matlab solver to do the math, now I'm in something really mathematics. I'm deriving my own equation through analytical methods to prove my model. Honestly, I didn't remember anything from undergrad about vibration, but after doing some revision... Deng, I could have done better back then, it seems easier now.

Transient to steady-state derivation and force vector:

The calculation ended up too complicated for calculator (this always happens in engineering), so Matlab is back in the picture again. Programming a derived equation is actually a lot easier, but when errors arise, it's just frustration when you wonder if it's coding problem or math problem. Comparing some results with literature, some does work... some doesn't... the journey is still long.

Back to the screen from books and paper:

"Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?"
-Song of Songs 6:10-

If God created science, then research is actually discovering more about God. Please bless me with the passion and determination to do things with my best, and that the glory will be Yours Oh Lord. I have long know that my own strength won't bring me anywhere, but to learn to trust and have faith, Amen.