CSC 152: The Week beginning Oct. 9
Homework:
Make a PowerPoint presentation on one of this year's Nobel Prize winners (
http://nobelprize.org/index.html
).
Choose a template.
Write and/or copy some text.
Copy some graphics.
Animate some text or a graphic.
It should be a minimum of seven slides (this should include a title slide at the beginning and a reference slide at the end.)
Some PowerPoint Link if needed
Basic Tasks in PowerPoint
(If you have trouble with this link, try using Internet Explorer.)
Apply a theme
Basic Animation
Due: Oct. 18
Monday:
Introduction to Mathematica -- symbolic computation
Plotting mathemtical functions
(I expect you to work through this example and show it to me.)
Projectile -- generate and plot the data for throwing a projectile up into the air
Random Walk Simulation
Nuclear Decay Simulation
Wednesday:
Mathematica Binomial Coefficients
Punnett Square Like Expansion in Mathematica
Use
these instructions
to fit the data on the Charge Sheet of
CapacitorData.xls
Chemical data fit (not a TrendLine provided by Excel)