A blog of Python-related topics and code.
Wa-Tor World
Posted by: christian on 10 Mar 2017
Wa-Tor is a population dynamics simulation described by Alexander Dewdney in Scientific American (1984): "Computer Recreations: Sharks and fish wage an ecological war on the toroidal planet Wa-Tor".
Disasters in Great Britain and Ireland over time
Posted by: christian on 7 Mar 2017
Wikipedia has an interesting (if somewhat morbid) list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland. This blog post will show how to scrape it and plot a chart of the deaths due to these disasters over time.
How many MPs have degrees in STEM subjects?
Posted by: christian on 3 Mar 2017
Not many:
What is the average age of an MP in each party?
Posted by: christian on 2 Mar 2017
Exploring the Schottky anomaly in hydrogen
Posted by: christian on 24 Feb 2017
The temperature-dependence of the rotational contribution to the heat capacity of gaseous molecular hydrogen shows a Schottky anomaly: whereas for many systems the heat capacity can be expected to increase with increasing temperature, for $\mathrm{H_2}$ there is an temperature range within which it reaches a maximum before decreasing. Only at higher temperatures does it revert to "conventional" behaviour.