Friday, June 26, 2015

May 31 - June 2

My mentor sent me some articles about the nature of research from IEEE Potentials. They were informative.

Began following an introduction to VPython. It's a video course.


Checked out some of the example programs that came with the VPython packages. THEY'RE SO COOL.

The program for "crystal", while seemingly not useful, is a ball and spring model of a solid. So it is very useful, considering I'm going to be trying to simulate a spring-loaded inverted pendulum. I also found a double pendulum so that'll be useful.



(This whole project still seems pretty daunting. Like...how will I know what angle to strike the ground with?? I feel like there's some differential equation in there and the angle to strike is the solution of it).

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