History and Policy in the Fifties Reading: Chapters 1-10, The Heavens and the Earth Big Themes: Technocracy as a way for a nation to accomplish tasks mon The impact of the thermonuclear bomb and the technology of missiles The Cold War as a contest between Communism and Capitalism
A function is a term used in mathematics and logic to denote a relationship between input and output variables. Each variable is restricted to binary (0, 1) values The relationship is the complex of three primitive functions (And \\Not\\Or)
Test 1 Directions: Choose from A), B, C and D) the best answer to complete each of the following sentences 1. No one takes him any more, he's become a figure of fun A)earnestly B)seriously
Interactive Complexity Complexity is a moving target The underlying factor is intellectual manageability 1. A\simple\system has a small number of unknowns in its nteractions within the system and with its environment
Summary of the subject (topics) 1. Brief review of probability a. Example applications 2. Brief review of random variables a. Example applications 3. Brief review of random processes a. Classical description b. State space description
Object: to describe the fieds generated by electric charges and currents Mathematical tools A field is a function describing a quantity at all points in space
