Rick F Guyon - Road Safety Features - Richard F Guyon

Road safety features are installed to protect public life and property and to reduce traffic-related lawsuits against highway and transportation departments. The most common actions include the installation of illumination, guardrails, and impact attenuators, as well as the relocation of dangerous facilities.

Guardrails are used on roadways where there is a severe slope or vertical dropoff to the side of the road, ditches, permanent bodies of water, embankments, and roadside obstacles. Guardrails with turned-down ends are now prohibited in new installations and should be upgraded. Such guardrails, rather than protecting motorists from a fixed impact or spearing, often cause vaulting and subsequent rollover.

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Rick F Guyon - Differential Equations - Convolution Integral - Richard F Guyon

Rick F Guyon - A complex Laplace transform, F(s), will often be recognized as the product of two other transforms, F1(s) and F2(s), whose corresponding functions fi(f) and f2(t) are known. Unfortunately, Laplace transforms cannot be computed with ordinary multiplication. However, it is possible to extract f(t) from the convolution, as calculated from either of the convolution integrals.

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Rick F Guyon - Coefficient of Friction - Richard F Guyon

Rick F Guyon  - In most cases, a vehicle's braking system is able to provide more braking force than can be transmitted to the pavement. Therefore, the maximum deceleration is limited by the coefficient of friction between the tires and pavement.

The coefficient of friction, f, between a vehicle and the supporting roadway is the frictional force divided by the normal force. The normal force is essentially the total weight of the vehicle, w , on all but the most extreme grades. The coefficient of friction is dependent on the condition of the vehicle's tires, the type and condition of the pavement, and the weather conditions. 

There are two coefficients of friction: static and dynamic(kinetic). The coefficients of friction may also be referred to as coefficients of road adhesion. The coefficients of static friction is larger than the coefficient of dynamic friction. While a vehicle's tires are rotating, the relative velocity between a point of contact on the tire and roadway are zero and the coefficient of static friction controls. 

Once a vehicle enters a skid, however the coefficient of dynamic friction controls. Therefore a vehicle is held to its maximum braking deceleration without entering a skid will take less distance to come to a complete stop than if the vehicle locks up its tires and skids to a stop. 

The coefficient of friction is not constant throughout the braking manuever, but varies inversely with speed. This level of sophistication is not normally considered, and an average value that is representative of the speed and conditions are used.

Rick F Guyon - The Rat Race & Corporate Politics

Ever notice how there are so many get quick rich schemes and yet....very few actually get rich from them? Because it's not a everyone get rich quick scheme and even those that do well know that you don't get rich quick. People are so captivated by reality tv that allows regular people to gaze into the lives of millionaires or billionaires because it allows them to have a taste of their life style without the amount of work required...

It boggles my mind!

I listen to very few speakers because everyone talks about working hard...but it really is about working smart. It's easy to say...work hard and you will be rich but that's a lie and you and I both know that. You can work hard at McDonalds all your life and have very little to show for it. You can be the best employee at a company and never get a promotion. When has hard work and recognition every been paired together? The rat race means office politics and that means playing smart.

It's been a while since I've been in the corporate grind of things as being my own boss has allowed me to live peacefully in the mountains BUT for many of you I know it's daunting. Learn the ways of the office...who to talk to and who not to talk to. What events to attend and what to say. It might seem silly but it's not...

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Rick F Guyon - Genetically Modified Food.

Rick F Guyon - Now I'm no scientists....but I wonder if people truly care about the whole GMO thing or is it just a fad to distract the 99% of some serious other issues or things that are happening right now. 

As much as people want to talk about Monsanto...the US Market's fish supply is all genetically modified. All of our meat is genetically modified....unless otherwise stated. All of our veggies are genetically modified. And even if a farmer did not have that intention it's not impossible for those plants to cross breed with a genetically modified plant causing its offspring to be genetically modified. Ok...so where do you start? Where do you go? What do you eat?

Good question. Let me know when you figure that one out.

Rick F Guyon - Human Interactions

With the increase of technology in our society it seems like it's getting harder and harder to just have a regular conversation without them looking at their phone every 4 seconds. I don't think I'm old fashioned which just wanting to have stimulating human interactions like simply talking face to face with a person.

I know...this is #firstworldprobs. But seriously. I'll walk by a group of kids and all of them are literally just on their phones...who are they talking to? What are they doing? Why aren't they talking to each other. Am I the only one is bugged by this? And why come everytime I say something about this people tell me that I sound like a "hipster". My goodness if that's what it means to be a hipster I guess that's what I am. See when I talk to someone I like to actually talk to them and not at my cellphone or laptop.

I dunno...I'm a hipster I guess.

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Rick F Guyon - Taking the time to just breath

Rick F Guyon - Soooooo today I woke up and admired the natural beauty of my home. Sometimes we get carried away with what we have to do. Whether it's the next research project, the next step, all the tasks and errands we have for the day....it's hard to just stop and breathe.

There is a saying I love. It says:

"Don't take life too seriously...It's not like you are going to make it out alive."

Makes you stop and chuckle. The only thing that comes to us all is death and taxes. So chill out...take 10 minutes out of your day to admire where you are and your life so far. Then when that is all done you can go back to your hectic day. I have a lot of work to do today but I know I am a lot more productive when I'm in a restful state of mind. - Richard F Guyon