User:Dtrerotola

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About Me

My name is Duncan. I am a huge basketball fan, love the 76ers, and am also interested in politics as well as technology.

Name Pronunciation

done-kin trair-oh-toll-uh

Grand Challenges for Engineering Article

Protecting Smart Buildings from Cyber Attacks, Alan Mihalic, Engineering.com, 21 August 2017, accessed 13 September 2017 (securing cyberspace)

Favorite MATLab Demonstration

My favorite MATLab demo was one where the user takes a normal sine wave and converts it into a series of almost rectangular waves. To do this, the user repeatedly adds harmonics that are smaller than the original sin(t), causing smaller waves to be formed at the max and mins of the original wave. Lastly, colons are used to set k to be every other digit from 1 to 19 in the equation sin(k*t)/k, which allows a function to be created that goes up to the 19th harmonic. The plot of this function looks very close to a square wave, although Gibb's law says that the wave can never truly be square.