Matricies & Networks

Hey Everyone...

First of all Id just like to warn you all that Im pretty new to the whole scribing and blogging stuff so hopefully this works out and you all understand it, and to everyone who has posted or scribed already "Good On Ya".

"Thereth nothing worth than being Fruthrated" - Mr. Maks

Today In class we went over Matricies & Networks, Mr. Maks began by giving us a list of Vocab and there definitions:

Matricies - Are used in the "Real World" for the purpose of keeping track od comings and goings within networks.

Networks - Telephone Network, Internet Protocal, Email Contacts, MSN contacts, Labor Hierarchy.

Node/Vertex - "Places" on the network diagram; "the to's and froms" on the network diagram; an ending place or a begining place.

Route/Edge - "How to get there" in realtion to the Nodes/Vertex.

Mr. Maks then gave us this analogy:

Analogy: Nodes/Vertex is to CLASSROOM
as Route/Edge is to HALLWAYS

We were then given a Network to consider....

Mr. Maks explained that this Network could be placed into a 4 x 4 matrix as connections through one other place by making one side A B C D and making the other side A B C D and then filling in the blanks with the number of times you can get from one destination to another. He then showed us how to make the connections through two other places.

These were our observations......

IF..... (A)^1 is the DIRECT route connections between nodes

THEN...... (A)^2 is the INDIRECT route connections through exactly ONE other node

THEN...... (A)^3 is the INDIRECT route connections through exactly TWO other nodes

AND..... (A)^n is the INDIRECT route connection through exactly (n - 1) other nodes

Pictorilly it could be shown as this....

0 - Being the Node/Vertex

<------> - Being the Route/Edge

For Homework we were assigned:

Ex. # 7 Pages A-18-19

Questions #2 & #4

On a side note,

I was asked to find out what the deal was with the new Slide Share program and this was what I found:

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Well thats all I have for right now guys, I hope that I get the hang of this soon so I can do better next round.... but untill then keep blogging and have fun!

- Britt