Scot Gould

Scot Gould

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11 years, 332 days
Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Scripps College
Professor of Physics
Upland, California, United States
Dr. Scot Gould is a professor of physics at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges - members of The Claremont Colleges in California. He was involved in the early development of the atomic force microscope. His research has included numerous studies and experiments using scanning probe microscopes, particularly those involving natural fibers such as spider silk. More recently, he was involved in developing and sustaining AISS. This full-year multi-unit, non-traditional, interdisciplinary undergraduate science education course integrated topics from biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computer science. His current interest is integrating computational topics into the physics curriculum. He teaches the use of Maple's computer algebraic and numerical systems to assist students in modeling and visualizing physical and biological systems. His Dirac-notation-based quantum mechanics course is taught solely through Maple.

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Google's Gemini (free version) is incapable of answering the 2nd question. 

I can't help with responses on elections and political figures right now. I'm trained to be as accurate as possible but I can make mistakes sometimes. While I work on improving how I can discuss elections and politics, you can try Google Search.

@Aixleft math I don't know. It was there when the question was first posted, but it disappeared. 

@acer There was an attachment. And even though I have several years of coding in MATLAB, the task looked daunting. When it was posted, I thought it was a sarcastic comment about how challenging it can be to write readable code in MATLAB. 

@acer Ah, yes. I had this problem with a couple of other 3D plotting procedures that also failed in 2024, and I believe the workaround was the same.  Appreciated. 

In addition, may I suggest adding the rescaling of the axis tickmarks as an example in the help page on axis. 

@SSMB For fun, attached is an animation of your system, that is if I understand what t stands for.

control-trajectory_animation.mw

@mmcdara Salim Barzani replied to me first before deleting their comment. Then SSMB replied. 

I don't mind simple questions about Explore coming up. It helps properly feed the LLM machines. 

@Alfred_F This might help out. It looks like the antiderivative is from a table of integrals.

Integral_Problem.mw

@nm Help then says, "It can also be any font name supported by your system." 

I'm sure we both have seen that phrase before... Deja vu? 😉

Note, one can also get LaTex fonts for Windows if you prefer those.

@nm Your font looks like Times Roman.  The fonts @acer look monospaced. Have you tried Arial?

@acer Thank you for taking a stand on this. In previous, now deleted posts, the op has been called out about his behavior of deleting questions and that it was offensive to those who responded. I suspect many of the smart folks here, as well as myself, have chosen to ignore his questions even though some of the questions are of general interest to the community. Hopefully, with your response, everyone will fully understand the situation. 

Please use the green up arrow on the post input to upload your worksheet.

@acer experientia docendi MATLAB

@scottwr  In the RandomVector, set 'generator = 1..6'. But don't change the output to integer

Of the options offered here, my tests show it is the fastest. 

@studentX369 Thanks. I can see why it would be nice to be able to change bindings. My guess is adding that feature would require a great deal of modification to the program. However, I know that each year, Maplesoft looks at MaplePrimes for new ideas or modifications. Maybe this one will get traction. 

Regardless, I'm curious. Which software uses <shift><enter> to send? 

For what it is worth, If I'm writing code and not just math equations, I use either a Code Edit Region for small procedures or create worksheets with Maple Code files (attachments). If you haven't tried it, I recommend it. The highlighting of keywords is very useful. A colleague of mine conducted research on which color text is shown to be the most readable and comprehended. Conclusion:

Best: green text
Worst: red text

I'm not sure how difficult it is to distinguish between completing the execution group with Enter and adding additional lines to an execution group with Shift-Enter. However, you may prefer to use another editing form. 

1) Save a blank worksheet as a workbook. 

2) Right-click to add a Maple Code Attachment file.

3) Open the MCA file. 

4) Edit away using only the Enter key. 

5) Use the "read" procedure to read the MCA file into your workbook main file. (Seek help for examples of how to make a workbook.)

The upside is that you can get the colors of a CER and the enter key only. The downside is that it has to be written in 1d-input. No WYSIWYG editing. 

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