Hunter Adams' Raspberry Pi Pico Lectures - Lecture 11: Modeling ball collisions

The project is to write a simulation of Francis' Galton's physical machine to describe the Central Limit Theorem, but modelling some of the physics of falling balls colliding with pins rather than just assuming a binomial random walk down the pins. See the lecture notes at https://vanhunteradams.com/Pico/Galton/Galton.html. It turns out that the parameters can actually change the distribution from a binomial one to something more like a uniform one, or a bimodal one!

For more on how physicists think about problems, see Angela's physics problems video in Angela Collier, Anne L'Huillier and Jacob Barandes on Physics.

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See the ECE 4760/5730 course page at https://ece4760.github.io/.

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