Chemical Equation Balancer - Paul Godin

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My Project Ideas

First of all this page shouldn't be puzzling, I just like the alliteration in the title. K, I know this is a bit late but here are my current ideas:

1. I would like to make some sort of video game where tanks shoot at each other. I know this is a pretty common thing that people have done, but I would like to try it out. Each turn you would get to move your tank a bit, then determine the angle at which you fire and hope it hits the opponents tank.

A game like Scorched Earth? That hearkens back to my childhood. Will you include the cool weapons like the nuke and MIRV? S48571087 21:59, 1 October 2008 (PDT)

So where does the computational physics come in? Maybe if you make the shell trajectories realistic, with proper air friction (different for sub- and supersonic velocities and for laminar flow at low velocities) it might be a bit more interesting. Or you could tackle the "lunar lander" game, or the "space war" game (with gravity) which was (long ago) the PhD project of a CS student. You are welcome to make a game of it, but there should be some "real physics" involved, otherwise nothing from this course will be relevant. -- Jess 19:30, 3 October 2008 (PDT)

2. As a Chemical Physics major I think a useful project for me would be to create a chemical equation balancer. You would put in all the information you know about the reaction, and the program would spit out the missing stoichiometric coefficients.

Not a bad idea, but you might it difficult to find a version intermediate between "trivial" and "too hard". I just don't know. How would you supply "all the information you know" and what would the application do with it? -- Jess 19:30, 3 October 2008 (PDT)