CS 1025 01 - Week #10 (Mar 25 and 27)

Tuesday, March 25th

  1. Hand back test one.

  2. The Test One Study Guide, Outline, Practice questions will be part of the test two study guide.

  3. Begin Monte Carlo dart tossing simulation and modeling, after review of the PIdayEve3_13CirclesRadians.nlogo of 3.13, Thursday March 13th. Right mouse button click and then download the NetLogo file, so you can run it.

    Estimating the area of a circle using Monte Carlo. Cows and Bugs. Patches. 33 squared. 

                               b
Do you understand the a = --- (d) formula and concepts.
                           c
 
Can you look at a Monte Carlo problem 
    and find the a, 
             the b,                         b
             the c,                   The -----
             the d?                         c

    and figure out which of the four parts is the goal, the unknown?

Which is the cows?   Which is the cows + bugs sum?

How do you figure out what d is?

What does a represent?

It is all in the above PDF.   See page CCC.  See CCC.
 
BICTION = if the INK don' flow, the understanding don't grow.
  
Take some notes, use some lead or ink, consume some scratch paper.
Practice.  Don't just read over and look at.  DO!  Nike.  Just DO it.

Thursday, March 27th
PI day eve: 3.13 or 03/13

  1. Monte Carlo problem from the end of class was to find the area of the turtle world knowing the area of the circle. 100,000 turtles were thrown as darts in the class exercise. Answer will be gone over on Tuesday April 1st.

    Note that the 1000 turtles JPG is an extra exercise created after class ended. It is nice to see since the 100000 turtles JPG the cows and bugs were so thick you cannot tell which is which visually!

  2. Monte Carlo and throwing darts simulation to estimate unknown areas.

  3. Monte Carlo basics: MonteCarlo11_14_2012.pdf. Know the 4 part formula!

  4. Monte Carlo exercise... Cows and houses.

  5. Data Flyer and estimating the equation for predicting height from hand span, where hand span is from tip of thumb to tip of little finger.

  6. Field trip break during the middle of class. Inside the building. Traveling from the main east door to the main south door on our legs. Brainstorming will be needed to solve the doors problem.