26CASE STUDIES PART III

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This chapter is a collection of case studies you might want to read and work on. They are based on the methods in the last few chapters, including Newtonian mechanics in one and two dimensions, and rotation around a single axis.

This chapter is available as a Jupyter notebook where you can read the text, run the code, and work on the case studies. You can access the notebooks at https://allendowney.github.io/ModSimPy.

Bungee Jumping

Suppose you want to set the world record for the highest “bungee dunk,” which is a stunt in which a bungee jumper dunks a cookie in a cup of tea at the lowest point of a jump. An example is ...

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