Category Archives: teaching

Planetary tunnel oscillators

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Andy Rundquist

Pick a point on the earth and start digging. It doesn’t have to be straight down. Keep it straight (careful! it’s harder than you might think) and keep going until you come back to the surface. Ok, now drop a … Continue reading →

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Dropping ladders

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Andy Rundquist

My friend Rhett Allain has really got me interested in this ladder drop posted by Veritasium: Here’s Rhett’s awesome explanation: Of course I wanted to see if I could model it with Mathematica, and, after finding I could run Mathematica … Continue reading →

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Mathematica for free

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Andy Rundquist

In this post I’m going to try to capture the steps I took today to get a Jupyter Notebook to run Mathematica commands. I did it on a Windows laptop so if you’re on a Mac of Linux you’ll have … Continue reading →

Posted in computational data science, mathematica, programming, teaching | 12 Comments

Computational Data Science capstone class

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Andy Rundquist

In just over a week the CDS capstone class starts and I’m not nearly ready. It’s been a while since I taught a class (Spring 2021 in the pandemic) and I’m a little rusty. But I remembered how useful it … Continue reading →

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Rigid bodies, formulation and examples

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Andy Rundquist

My friend Rhett Allain gave me a good challenge recently with this tweet: I had been working on a problem that he posted about regarding a bead sliding freely on a hoop that is spinning about an axis in its … Continue reading →

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Classroom photo sharing app

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Andy Rundquist

For a long time I’ve wanted an app that could Allow my students to take a picture of their work and share it with the class Certainly my computer should be able to display it, but with thumbnails for all … Continue reading →

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Brachistochrone for rolling things

Posted on March 19, 2022 by Andy Rundquist

The Brachistochrone curve is the shape of a wire for beads to slide down (friction free) to get from point A to point B the fastest. Note that since I used the word “down” there I’m implying this happens in … Continue reading →

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Book editor in Google Apps Script

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Andy Rundquist

I’m teaching a class in the fall called “Web App Development with Google Apps Script” that I think I want to write my own book for. I started doing some of that using wikibooks, but I was frustrated at some … Continue reading →

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Programming for me vs you

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Andy Rundquist

I almost titled this “I hate ‘input’ and ‘print’” but that’s not really true. I’m teaching a course called “Introduction to Computational Data Science” this semester, just like I did last spring, and even with only two days under my … Continue reading →

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Synchronous dashboard with audio and breakouts

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Andy Rundquist

I teach again in just a week and have set a goal for myself to make an app that I can use in my synchronous meetings. As of this weekend, I think it’s working (see github repo here)! You can … Continue reading →

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