On one warm spring afternoon during grad school when I should have been outside enjoying nature, I stayed in the lab and wrote the following MATLAB script. It will take any 8-bit RGB image and convert it to colored HTML text; any text. As an example of its application I have emblazoned my favorite positronic

For a recent project one of my research students needed to generate exponentially distributed random numbers in MATLAB. The Statistics Toolbox has a built-in function to do this, but I don’t have a license for this toolbox. Below is the code we wrote. It performs a log transformation to convert a uniformly distributed random number

It is possible, and only slightly awkward, to make LaTex tables with borders around some of the cells and no borders or only partial borders around other cells. Below are two snippets of code showing you how. Each is followed by an image of the table it produces. This code uses two LaTex packages, multirow

Purpose: This exercise is a brief introduction to MATLAB for students who want to use MATLAB for research projects. You will familiarize yourself with the MATLAB command line and editor. You will learn the difference between a script and a function. Some programming elements such as loops and conditional statements are introduced as well as

1)    Learning physics is not about memorizing facts and equations. It’s about developing problem solving skills that will be a part of your thought processes long after facts like the kinematic equations of motion fade away. 2)    Attend all lectures and read the material BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER it is covered in class. You are