Scientific Python and Julia tutorials

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Tool Python Intermediate 35 min

Surface temperature of an airless planet: day, night, and below the ground

Afterwards you can turn a heat equation with a radiating surface into ODEs for solve_ivp and compute an airless body's day, night, and subsurface temperatures.

Partial differential equations Geology, Physics

Concept Python Intermediate 30 min

Stiffness: why an explicit solver crawls on a reaction that has long settled

Afterwards you can recognize a stiff ODE by its time scales, say why an explicit solver crawls on it, and pick an implicit method that does not.

Ordinary differential equations Chemistry, Engineering