Python and my Math commitment

Let’s talk about plans. It’s good to have one. For example, I have a plan for this year.

I kind of like math. So, I have this book:

It’s 1400 pages long and basically, has everything in it. It’s a rather exhaustive book. Hence, my plan is to finish the book by the end of 2015 and write a couple of python scripts that calculate something interesting.

(2021 Hindsight): Yeah, I didn’t manage this… But it’s a cool idea, let’s see if I can get around coming further. I managed to get until 500 pages or so, before life stepped in.

For example, Newton’s law of cooling how I learned it is:

k*log(2.5)*((t(0)-k)/(t-k))

Where k => a material’s surface based constant. T(0) => initial temperature. T => target temperature. K => Environment’s temperature.

A simple python script for this:

# Calculating Newton's law of Cooling
from __future__ import division
import sys
from math import log

def calculation(k, Tz, T, K):
	res = (Tz - K)/(T - K)
	return k * (log(res, 2.5))

k = sys.argv[1]
Tz = sys.argv[2]
T = sys.argv[3]
K = sys.argv[4]

print("Calculating aproximate temperature for given parameters: k=%s, Tz=%sC, T=%sC, K=%sC" % (k, Tz, T, K))

print(calculation(float(k), float(Tz), float(T), float(K)))

Enjoy.

And as always, Thanks for reading!