Week 10: April 10 - 14

Kepler-453b: A Real Tatooine?

In August 2015 the discovery of Kepler-453b was announced. Kepler-453b orbits a binary star, like the planet “Tatooine” in “Star Wars”. We apply numerical techniques for solving differential equations to explore the possible orbital dynamics of this planet.

Animation

Animating a graph involves repeatedly updating the coordinates of drawn objects such as points and lines, then redrawing the objects. We learn how to do this in a Jupyter Notebook.

Week 10 Notebook

Python

  • Conditional expressions

Matplotlib

  • FuncAnimation

Quiz 9: More NumPy

  • Indexing using boolean arrays.
  • Indexing using integer arrays.
  • meshgrid

Sample Quiz 9

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Tatooine