Tuesday, July 18, 1-3:30pm, Kingsbury W114

Good afternoon, campers! In this session we'll be

• talking about the physics of projectiles, e.g. a baseball in flight,
• looking at the equations of motion of projectiles, with and without turbulent air resistance
• using numerical simulation methods to solve those equations
• plotting the results and figuring out the minimum speed and optimum angle to hit a home run
• comparing what happens at Fenway to what happens in Denver

You'll need to

• make a new folder on your computer: C:\Users\guestmech\techcamp-2017
• download some Matlab files (below) and put them in that folder
• start Matlab from the application menu
• open up that folder in Matlab, either from the menu or by typing cd C:\Users\guestmech\techcamp-2017 at the command prompt
• click on Simulating the flight of a baseball
• and then Hitting a home run

Matlab files for you to download and run on the computer.

• f_nodrag.m
• f_withdrag.m
• baseballsolve.m
• hitball.m

Same things as interactive notebooks in the Julia programming language

• Numerical baseball, Julia notebook
• Computer home run, Julia notebook