Monthly Archives: March 2012

Turntable spriograph modeling

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Andy Rundquist

I was inspired this weekend by this video by Robert Howsare: I’ve seen things like this before and I wanted to explore how to model this in Mathematica. It was fun to explore and it really drove home some ideas … Continue reading →

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Synchronized Metronomes

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Andy Rundquist

Yesterday a tweep of mine posted this https://twitter.com/#!/mathhombre/status/176479904894955520 and it got me thinking. First, here’s the youtube he’s refering to: I wanted to see if I could model it in Mathematica. As usual, my first attempt didn’t quite get it … Continue reading →

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Oral Assessment Synthesis

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Andy Rundquist

Today was an oral assessment day in my Physical Optics course. I’ve written about these before, but here’s the short version: Students are assigned a random standard (chosen from the ones that are both active and older than two weeks … Continue reading →

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