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'''My Project Ideas'''
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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.

<font color=darkorange>A game like Scorched Earth? That hearkens back to my childhood. Will you include the cool weapons like the nuke and MIRV?</font> [[User:S48571087|S48571087]] 21:59, 1 October 2008 (PDT)

<FONT COLOR=darkgreen> 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.  -- </FONT> [[User:Jess|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.

<FONT COLOR=darkgreen> 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?  -- </FONT> [[User:Jess|Jess]] 19:30, 3 October 2008 (PDT)