End of the Year Computational Physics Modeling Project

To get us over the line the last few days, you'll be completing these tasks using Glowscript and sharing them back to me.  Each task counts as half a lab, 5/5 points lab category, for a total of 20 points.  I'd appreciate your feedback as to similarities between glowscript and other programming you've done.  You are beta testing these modules for our use in AP next year.  Ideally, we can start to dive into some of that air resistance that you so dearly love in an attempt to use computational methods to solve more realistic problem scenarios!  Credit for the authorship of these modules goes to Jim Deane.

Module 0

Module 1

Module 2

Module 3

 Module 4

Bonus (+3 test points)
Make a copy of this code and complete the questions and tasks, then share it back to me.

Bonus Bonus (+10 HW points)
Create a program with eight cubes placed at the corners of a cube which is centered on the origin.  The side length of the cube should be 5 units.  Use different colors for every cube!  Add an arrow that extends from one corner of the cube to the opposite corner.

Bonus Bonus Bonus (+2 test points)
Feedback Survey.  I want to implement this glowscript stuff early in the year when we're not doing much webassign (that doesn't really kick off until BFPM), so we can do some more complex computational modeling projects later on in the year.  I'm also trying to incorporate more programming, based on feedback that I'm getting from alumni, and examples I'm seeing from other AP physics courses on the twitter.


Negotiable Bonus Questions
Model the buggy problems from the CVPM.

Model different shapes rolling down an incline from the Rotational Dynamics Model.

Model a mass oscillating on the end of a spring.

Model a problem scenario of your own choosing.

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