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Some possible enhancements to the book #127

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moorepants opened this issue Feb 8, 2023 · 3 comments
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Some possible enhancements to the book #127

moorepants opened this issue Feb 8, 2023 · 3 comments

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@moorepants
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moorepants commented Feb 8, 2023

  • Add in conceptual questions and mini problems to the lecture notes
  • Add more mini-exercises after sections
  • Introduce more problems that show off notable dynamics phenomena (reversals, stability, gyroscope, etc.)
  • A negative aspect of integrating code into a book is that the full solutions are already coded for the student and it enables a copy/paste style of work to solve the homeworks, thus limited learning.
  • Show them how to use sympy.physics.mechanics more at the end, we only use physics.vector in the book.
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I am always intrigued by gyroscopic effects, they often are counter intuitive. For example, it is known that the rotation of a rigid body around its axis of smallest inertia is unstable. I simulated this, a really simple program, and it did show this effect.

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Would it make sense to introduce sympy.physics.mechanics at the end of your lecture, or maybe in an appendix?
It is a fascinating library, based on the topic of your lecture.

@moorepants
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Yes for sure. I'll add it to the list.

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