a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
We were having a beautiful evening back home in Antwerp, at the harbor. At one point Simon started jotting some calculations on the reverse side of the menu sheet (he … Continue reading Why does everyone get tides wrong!?
Picking up hiking keeps leading to beautiful conversations and thought experiments on the way. Yesterday, on our longest hike so far (over 8 km, partially in the sand), as we … Continue reading Singing bottles, negative kelvins and resolving Zeno’s paradox
Simon created a physics engine in Python with Turtle. He used Verlet integration (French pronunciation: [vɛʁˈlɛ]), a numerical method for integrating Newton’s equations of motion in calculating trajectories of particles in molecular … Continue reading Physics Engine using Verlet Integration
We watched both on Wednesday, May 27 and Saturday, May 30 when it actually happened: the historic launch of Crew Dragon Demo-2, a commercial state-of-the-art aircraft, marking the start of … Continue reading Watching Bob and Doug start a new era of space exploration
Following up on his Bézier Curve in p5.js project from a couple months ago, Simon created a Bézier Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/4Dj5iq0oh
Simon returned to his project on the three body problem that he was busy with in January this year. This time, he added traces to the bodies so that their … Continue reading The Three-Body Problem in p5.JS Continued
We still love our Particle Zoo.
The famous Grandfather Paradox (you travel to the past and kill your grandfather, which prevents the your existence) on a Möbius strip. Simon’s inspiration comes from the “Solution to the Grandfather Paradox” video … Continue reading Grandfather Paradox on a Möbius strip
Simon was inspired by the Scientific Thinking course on Brilliant.org to create this pulley simulation in Algodoo. You can download Simon’s scene called “Pulleys” and play with it yourself. They … Continue reading Scientific Thinking: Pulleys
Thanks to the lock-down, Simon’s got new friends. For a little over a month now, he has been part of exciting daily discussions, challenging coding sessions and just playing together … Continue reading New Friends. New Horizons.
Simon: “The direct formula for the position of a pendulum is not what you might think”. Simon’s code for spring and graph: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/mWp6gQLxz Simon’s code for pendulum with directed fields: … Continue reading Science on the Balcony: Position of a Pendulum
Simon says he has attempted a Higgs Field model in Processing, but got more of a Brownian Motion simulation in the end. His code on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/Brownian-Motion
Geeks out of the box 