CSC 152: The Week beginning Nov. 26

Homework:

Watch/read and summarize and/or respond to (in your own words) the following article
A science award that makes you laugh then think (Ted Talk by Marc Abrahams)
Alternate link Same thing but on youtube

This Mars explorer will probe the planet’s history — if it can land in one piece

Due: Dec. 3
Monday:

Test 4 Friday or Monday? TEST 4 will be on Monday -- somebody just told me about an Organic test

1. Fitting Data to Logistic function in Mathematica

2. Use Excel to generate 500 random wind speeds between 74 and 200 miles per hour. Then look up the Hurricane Classification system and create a VLookup that will determine the category of those values. (VLOOKUP is on Friday's test, make sure you know how to do it. )

3. Use the Excel CONVERT function to find how many:
- grams in 1 ounce
- meters in 1 mile
- seconds in 1 year
- Pascals in 1 atmosphere
- dynes in 1 Newton
- calories in 1 Joule
- Watt-hours in 1 BTU
- teaspoons in 1 cup
- liters in 1 gallon
Due: Dec. 3
Wednesday:

1. Solving 1D Elastic Collision Equations in Mathematica (presentation)

2a. Follow the instructions starting from http://www.lasalle.edu/~blum/p106wks/efline01_A.htm up to http://www.lasalle.edu/~blum/p106wks/efline10_A.htm . Paste a copy of the 3d-Surface and Wireframe plots into a Word document.

2b. Do the equivalent in Mathematica

2c. Do the equivalent in R

Due: Dec. 5
Friday:

Test4_practice.zip (Remember to save/download, as opposed to immediately opening, and then EXTRACT/EXTRACT/EXTRACT. )

Due: Dec. 7