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Detailed worked solutions to high-school science problems
https://github.com/paultcochrane/after-school-help

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# After school help



Detailed worked solutions to high-school science problems.



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## Physics



  - [Evaporating a pot of water](physics/evaporating-a-pot-of-water.ipynb) [![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/paultcochrane/after-school-help/HEAD?labpath=physics%2Fevaporating-a-pot-of-water.ipynb)

  - [Sailplane glide distance](physics/sailplane-glide-distance.ipynb) [![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/paultcochrane/after-school-help/HEAD?labpath=physics%2Fsailplane-glide-distance.ipynb)

  - [*The Enterprise* amusement park ride](physics/enterprise-amusement-ride.ipynb)



## Maths



  - [Throwing a javelin](maths/throwing-a-javelin.ipynb) [![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/paultcochrane/after-school-help/HEAD?labpath=maths%2Fthrowing-a-javelin.ipynb)



## Running Jupyter notebooks on your own computer



It's not necessary to use the [JupyterLab](https://jupyter.org/) notebooks

linked above only through [Binder](https://mybinder.org/); you can also run

them on your own computer.  If you use Windows, you'll need to use [Windows

Subsystem for Linux

(WSL)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about) for the

following instructions to work.  On [MacOS](https://www.apple.com/macos/) or

[Linux](https://www.linux.org/), just open a terminal and enter the commands

there.



First things first: clone the repository.  You'll need to use a command like

this:



```shell

git clone https://github.com/paultcochrane/after-school-help.git

```



That will create a directory named `after-school-help`; change into that

directory (via the `cd` command) and then install the

[Python](https://www.python.org/) requirements with the `pip` command.



```shell

cd after-school-help  # change into the directory we just created

python3 -m venv venv  # create the Python virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate  # activate the Python virtual environment

pip install -r requirements.txt  # install the required Python libraries

```



Alternatively, you could just run the setup script and then activate the

virtual environment:



```shell

cd after-school-help  # change into the directory we just created

./setup.sh  # set up project and install Python libraries

source venv/bin/activate  # activate the Python virtual environment

```



Now you'll be ready to start the JupyterLab notebook environment.  Just run



```shell

jupyter lab

```



and the JupyterLab environment will start with a launcher window similar to

that below:



![JupyterLab initial screen](jupyter-lab-initial-screen.png)



To open a pre-existing notebook, just double click on one of the folders

(e.g. `physics` or `maths`) and double click on a notebook file (anything

with the ![notebook icon](jupyter-lab-notebook-icon.png) icon or any file

with the `.ipynb` extension).  For instance, if you open the [evaporating a

pot of water](physics/evaporating-a-pot-of-water.ipynb) worked example file,

you'll see something like this:



![JupyterLab opened example notebook](jupyter-lab-opened-example-notebook.png)



Now feel free to play around, change the numbers in the code and re-run the

individual notebook cells to see the effects of your changes!