PythonPlant

Task List

Please reach out to Zenyn for clarification on any of the tasks below.

Important and Urgent (I)

• Determine theoretical unit testing criteria
  • How can we determine if the programs is doing something wrong?
• Fix error in buoyancy/weight force calculations that result
  • in unending rotation about x, y, axis

Important but Not Urgent (II)

• Test optimize parameters based on experimental data
• Add input validation to all functions (ex: no negative mass)
• Add graphing for real position
  • think about how we can visualize and calculate for difference reference frames

Not Important but Urgent (III)

• (Graphing) Add Legends
• (Graphing) Add Units
• (Graphing) Fix title cutoff

Not Important or Urgent (IV)

• Fix rotational positioning issue
  • Angle should not exceed two-pi

Setup

The following instructions are for using PyCharm which has a student license which you can activate

• Install PyCharm using the link above
• After start up clone the repository using the built-in tools on PiCharm
• Once you open your project, go to Settings > Project > Python Interperter > Add Interpreter > Add Local Interperter
• Don't change any of the default settings, and click Okay
• After Python has successfully been installed, run the following commands in the PyCharm integrated terminal to install numpy for math and matplotlib for plotting.

pip install numpy
pip install matplotlib

• After both have sucessfully installed, you should be ready to run the code!