Analytic Animations: Theory and Practice 1 or 2

Day 3 of the Animating New Physics project, an Independent Activities Period at MIT event done independently by The Stand-Up Physicist Doug Sweetser, class of '84.

René Descartes gave us analytic geometry, the ability to transform an algebraic expression into a static graph. Modernize this old power tool to make animations from the same algebraic expressions. When animated, triangles and squares are fleeting but of interest to physicists. Polar coordinates gain new meaning when connected to events in spacetime and velocity. A vast new way of thinking visually about time's relationships with space is opening up.

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Science & Technology

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• analytic
• geometry
• norm
• polynomial
• slides
• MIT
• IAP
• Animating
• new
• physics
• Sweetser
• quaternions