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!