Simulated optics experiment/Simulator: Difference between revisions

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Simulation by computer modeling is done in the natural sciences for various reasons. Consider, for instance, simulation of the weather: it might be done to try to predict the actual weather for the next few days.

The purpose of the simulation is demonstrate flaws in some physicists' interpretations of certain actual experiments, by presenting a simulated counterexample to their reasoning.

 

 

In this task you should write the program or set of programs that simulate the experimental apparatus, so generating raw data. The ''[[Simulated optics experiment/Data analysis]]'' task handles analysis of the raw data. There should be no need for the simulator and the data analysis to be in the same programming language. Therefore any implementation of the data analysis can be used to check your implementation of the simulator.