A few weeks ago, we posted an article listing some of the essential engineering calculation worksheets for beginners getting started with Mathcad. But you can find many, many more in our worksheet collections available online. Whether you’re working in physics, electrical engineering, or statistics, there are worksheets that can help make your day-to-day calculations easier, error-free, and readable.
In fact, we offer so many worksheets, you might feel overwhelmed and miss out on some hidden gems.
That’s why we asked Iulia Savu, one of our Mathcad experts for help finding some of the most interesting and useful worksheets among the hundreds available. Based in Bucharest, Iulia Savu is a PTC Mathcad Application Engineer who conducts product demonstration and answering technical questions for customers and partners. If you’re ready to explore what else is out there, she suggests that you take a look at these three gems:
Mathcad Application Engineer, Iulia Savu
Magnification of an Image uses the same theory and demonstrations you learn in the light and optics physics class, says Savu.
“You've probably looked through a magnifying glass, so you know that objects can appear larger or smaller,” she says. “This worksheet demonstrates what happens when a light reflected off an object passes through a converging lens”
You can find the worksheet in the User Community, or in the PTC Mathcad free worksheets, Topics in Physics, Chapter 11-4
The Magnification of an Image worksheet in Mathcad helps you calculate and diagram the path of a light source through a convex lens.
“Another worksheet that impresses me is ‘Modelling the Ocean’,” says Savu. “When watching the ocean, it's obvious that the sea is not a single sinusoidal wave but a combination of many waves with different speeds, amplitudes, directions, and wavelengths. It seems that the sea surface evolves almost randomly when looking at a specific point of the ocean.”
The Ocean worksheet helps you model those complicated waveforms by presenting the ocean as a sum of simple sinusoidal waves with different heights, lengths, and directions,” she says.
You can find the worksheet in the User Community, or in the PTC Mathcad free worksheets, in the Oil and Gas category.
Modeling the Ocean worksheet calculates natural-looking waves by multiple waves at once.
“You can use the Missile Drag Brake worksheet to calculate the resultant force and the sectional area of one drag brake for a missile,” says Savu.
Using the barometric formula, the worksheet models how the air pressure changes with altitude and displays a graphic that shows how the drag force depends on the area.
Use the missile drag brake worksheet to calculate the resultant force and the sectional area of one drag brake for a missile.
See the worksheet in action here.
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