ESD 2 - 2013 exam !

[rocket]

Hi everybody!

Hope everyone is enjoying themselves. I have a special exam on xmas eve and for esd 2 and was wondering if anyone had a copy of the 2013 exam or if not details on what questions were on the digital and mechanics sections!

Thanks so much!

[hobbitle]

Digital systems I recall being very similar to past exams so if you do all of those you should be fine. I don't even remember what the main question/s were which means I found it straightforward.

Mechanics was a little harder than the past exams but the same theory and question structure applied - it was just a little more confusing. There was a truss/joints question (but the truss was a bit more complex than any questions in past exams) and the projectile question was pretty similar to past exams (deriving governing equations of motion etc).

There was some sneakiness/difficulty in the programming section and one part was a lot harder than previous exams, but previous exams were stupidly easy for programming so I guess upping the ante was to be expected.

[hobbitle]

Digital systems I remember one question was on the Hamming Code almost identical to all the Hamming questions in past exams.

[rocket]

Was it the 5 bit hamming distance? Like working out how much 2 bits differ by?

I've heard that the mechanics was a fair bit harder this year!

Thanks for your help guys

[hobbitle]

It was, I think, working out what the transmitted code should be... Like where was the error and what should it have been. There was another one that involved drawing a logic circuit using...umm full adders maybe??? Sorry it was kinda easy so therefore in memorable...

[Dismounted]

The big Programming question was to find the REPEATED integers in a given array.

Note that this is slightly different to the past paper, which was to remove any repetitions of integers in a given array.

[hobbitle]

Similar question but the slight variation actually made it way harder to program (I thought anyway).

[scribble]

The big Programming question was to find the REPEATED integers in a given array.

Note that this is slightly different to the past paper, which was to remove any repetitions of integers in a given array.

LOL awks man, i misread the question and thought it was the exact same question as the last paper. rofl :'D