Terms

Knowledge is love and light and vision. -Hellen Keller

Sorry. I've added a few items. In case you still haven't noticed, I've been comparing stuff (a person or an event) to technical terms in the fics that I've written. I can't help it because of the course I'm taking up. So that you will be able to follow my little analogy, I present this sort of crash course. A glimpse of what I'm going through while taking The Suicidal Course (i.e. Engineering).

From Quarter of a Circle

Centroid. It's almost synonymous to center of gravity. So what is center of gravity? It's basically where the weight of an object is mainly concentrated. But take note: a quarter of a circle or even the circle itself is a plain figure meaning it has no real weight. So instead of using center of gravity, the term centroid is used instead. It means the same thing, corresponding to the center of gravity of a weightless object.

From Circuit Theory

Current. The movement of an electric charge.

Voltage. Also known as the electromotive force (emf). It is the electron moving force in a circuit that pushes or pulls electrons through the circuit.

Resistance. The property of materials that opposes or resists the movement of electrons

Ohm's Law. This law states that the current is directly proportional to the voltage and inversely proportional to the resistance. An increase in voltage means an increase in current under constant resistance. Increase in the resistance means a decrease in the current (so long as voltage remains constant).

Schematic diagram. This sort of shows how components are to be connected. It's like a blueprint.

PCB. Short for printed circuit board. This is made of copper and it's where components are mounted.

From Paradigm Shift

Paradigm shift. Paradigm is model and shift is, well, shift. It just means "new perspective".

From Exception Handling

Exception Handling. In programming, there are what we call "exceptions". These are errors that occur while the program is running. This means that the errors are not due to the logical flow of the program but rather due to some unexpected source such as user input. Exception Handling allows programmers to resolve (handle) these exceptions so that program will not stop from running everytime these errors occur.

Try. It's a keyword in several programming languages (like Visual Basic.Net, Visual C++, Java) that looks for possible exception(s) during run-time.

Throw. A keyword that allows programmer to well, sort of create exceptions.

Catch. A keyword that allows exceptions to be caught whenever they occur.

Finally. Whatever codes there are inside this keyword are executed whether exceptions are "caught" or not.

Well. That will be it for now. ^^