Physics 165 Schedule
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Reading |
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Sept. |
General introduction, online resources | Gauld |
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Sept. |
POWL, set 1: input/output, python as calculator | |
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Sept. |
string formats, branching | Gauld |
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Sept. |
functions, loops | |
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Sept. |
POWL, set 2: simple programs | |
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Sept. |
Lists, iteration | |
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Sept. |
VPython, Euler integration | Dyer: 1st order DE |
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Sept. |
Hurricane Day |
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Sept. |
POWL, set 3: lists, Euler integration, graphing |
CUPS handout |
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Sept. |
nested loops,array manipulation,more elaborate integration of Newton's eqns | NumPy:5,8 |
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Sept. |
POWL, set 4 | |
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Sept. |
Topics due--arrays, tuples | |
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Oct. 1 |
lists,ufuncs,VPython examples | NumPy:6,Tut:5 |
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Oct. 3 |
POWL, set 5 | |
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Oct. 6 |
Yom Kippur--videos | |
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Oct. 8 |
review | |
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Oct. 13 |
dictionaries | |
| Oct. 15 | orbits.py, stars.py, doing sci. comp. | |
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Oct. 17 |
POWL,set 6 & project | |
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Oct. 20 |
using VPython, files and exceptions | |
| Oct. 22 | color, RGB settings | |
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1st Term Project Prelim Due; POWL,set 7 | |
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crystal.py; crystal1D.py; read,write to file | |
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try/except;speed of sound in chain: soundspeed.py | M&I, sec.3.5; prob. 3.6 |
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Oct. 31 |
POWL,set 8 | |
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Nov. 3 |
morse.py | |
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Nov. 5 |
NO CLASS !!! | |
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Nov. 7 |
1st Term Project Due | |
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Nov. 10 |
classes, recursion (Tower of Hanoi) | Zelle 13.4.1, 10.1-10.4 |
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Nov. 12 |
continuation of classes, namespace | Gauld, ch. 16 (handout) |
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classes, more on colorslider.py | |
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POWL, random walks in 1D | |
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random walks in higher dim. | |
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multiple walkers, simulations of ideal gases | |
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POWL, gas.py | |
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POWL |
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Thanksgiving |
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| Dec. 1 |
gas.py and num.py; box counting for fractals | |
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gas.py and its extensions, Monte Carlo integration MCpi3D.py | Zelle, 9 (esp. prob. 12) |
| Dec. 5 | important algorithms, more on classes energy.py | |
| Dec. 8 |
Presentations of 2nd Term Project & Review ; 1D-kinematics-Salgado.py |
Baker, Riddick |
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Dec. 10 |
" " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " | Coates, FaizTompkins, McKnight |
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Dec. 12 |
" " " " 2nd Term Project Due | Anderson, Dearman, Sharpe |
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Dec. 17 |
Final Exam (Cumulative, Take-home) |
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