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My name is James Risman. I am in Pratt and am most likely going to major in Civil Engineering. | My name is James Risman. I am in Pratt and am most likely going to major in Civil Engineering. | ||
| − | Also even though my name is James, Tucker is my middle name and the name I go by is phonetically pronounced Tuhk 'er Ris 'man. | + | Also even though my name is James, Tucker is my middle name and the name I go by is phonetically pronounced Tuhk' er Ris 'man. |
[http://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/kenya/new-well-in-kenya-418 The Water Project], The Water Project, Inc., Updated 2010, accessed 19 September, 2010 (Grand Challenge) | [http://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/kenya/new-well-in-kenya-418 The Water Project], The Water Project, Inc., Updated 2010, accessed 19 September, 2010 (Grand Challenge) | ||
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| + | Out of the MATLAB demos my favorite was the demo "Viewing a Penny." It was my favorite demonstration less for what I learned from it, but more just because I though it was cool. Out of math one thing I've always enjoyed are contour maps because I've always thought of them as altitude maps for hiking a mountain or something outdoors that interests me. Then I also am a small coin collector and thought that using contour maps to find the heights and sizes of a penny to graph it was a really cool idea and concept that I never would've come up with. I also thought the color mapping was interesting more just for the practicality of it if you are ever trying to display something real on through MATLAB. | ||
Latest revision as of 00:23, 24 September 2010
My name is James Risman. I am in Pratt and am most likely going to major in Civil Engineering. Also even though my name is James, Tucker is my middle name and the name I go by is phonetically pronounced Tuhk' er Ris 'man.
The Water Project, The Water Project, Inc., Updated 2010, accessed 19 September, 2010 (Grand Challenge)
Out of the MATLAB demos my favorite was the demo "Viewing a Penny." It was my favorite demonstration less for what I learned from it, but more just because I though it was cool. Out of math one thing I've always enjoyed are contour maps because I've always thought of them as altitude maps for hiking a mountain or something outdoors that interests me. Then I also am a small coin collector and thought that using contour maps to find the heights and sizes of a penny to graph it was a really cool idea and concept that I never would've come up with. I also thought the color mapping was interesting more just for the practicality of it if you are ever trying to display something real on through MATLAB.
