Scientific Python and Julia tutorials

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Concept Python Beginner 30 min

The wave equation: why a string plucked at a fifth has no fifth harmonic

Afterwards you can solve the wave equation as two traveling waves or as standing modes and predict from the initial shape which harmonics a string contains.

Partial differential equations Engineering, Geology, Physics

Minigame Python Beginner 25 min

Plucked string harmonics: why a pluck at a third has no third harmonic

Afterwards you can expand any string shape in a Fourier series, follow a pluck's kinks with d'Alembert, and predict its missing harmonics and its brightness.

Partial differential equationsSignal processing Mathematics, Physics