These are some side projects that I work on simply because I enjoy tinkering with computers and coding. Most of them have nothing to do with physics and very few of them have any practical benefit.
This pair of GeoGebra animations is designed to show that there are two ingredients to circular motion: centripetal force and forward motion. If one or the other ingredient is missing, the motion will diverge from circular.
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(Read more...)When my first daughter was born, we were asked by the doctor to track her feedings and her wet and dirty diapers. While there are apps that do this, they are all too complicated! So I did the only logical thing: coded my own simpler app from scratch!
(Read more...)I’ve always wanted to find something useful to do with the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi. Haven’t found anything useful to do yet, but I have played around with a few non-useful things!
(Read more...)I use Plain-Text Accounting and the command line tools Ledger and HLedger in order to track family finances. I have written these scripts to help me import data from monthly bank statements into my ledger file and visualize our finances.
During the 2017 INAAPT Spring Meeting, I listened to a talk about GlowScript as a way to create VPython animations online. I created the following projects just to learn the programming language and illustrate a couple physics concepts.