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 ====== Project 1: Part A: Operation river boat crossing ======
-{{course_planning:river_photo_1.jpg|}}
-You are a scientist.
+You are a group of scientists and engineers who are studying the Miskatonic River. You need to get across the river to take more measurements but your boat sprung a leak and sank. At the edge of the river which you have found to have a constant flow rate you come across a child and their parent playing with a remote control boat. There is also an old motorboat that you could use but its rudder is stuck in place and the motorboat is positioned so that it is facing directly perpendicular to the river flow. The old motorboat indicates that it has a top speed of 7m/s. On the other side of the river, there are a lot of sharp rocks and the river is very strong so you need to know where you are going to make landfall on the other side before you start the boat’s engine. In your possession, you have a laser distance measure and a stopwatch. You use the laser distance measure to find that the river is 20 meters wide but there must have been very little battery power left as the measure stops working after measuring the width of the river. You also notice that on your side of the river there are two docks. One that has the motorboat and the other that is down the river that has nothing docked on it. If you turn on the boat when it is positioned directly perpendicular to the river flow calculate where you will end up on the other side of the river.
-You have worked on the Voyager 1 project for a number of years. You receive a satellite phone call while on a team building exercise with your fellow scientists that there is an emergency with Voyager 1. You must escape hostile territory while being pursued by an enemy who wants you for your scientific prowess. You come to a river that is fast flowing, and the only safe landing point on the opposite bank is directly across from an abandoned but functional boat. The width of the river is 1.8 km. The boat has a constant speed of 21 knots. However, the boat’s rudder has been damaged and so the boat cannot be redirected once it has started moving. With you, you have a remote controlled boat which travels at a constant speed, but you do not know what that speed is. You also have a stop watch. You must predict the proper direction to point the boat in order to land on the opposite bank at the landing point.
+[[:183_notes:learning goals:week 1|Learning Goals Week 1]]
-/*
-====== Project 1: Part B: Voyager collision course ======
-{{course_planning:river_photo_2.jpg|}}
-Your team reached a clearing and has been airlifted out of hostile territory and transported to ground control for Voyager 1.  An asteroid has been identified whose movement may put it on a collision course with the satellite.  NASA has tasked your team with creating an accurate visual simulation of the motion of the asteroid and satellite **relative to ground control** and to produce a graph of the separation distance of Voyager and asteroid as a function of time.  Voyager's probes can provide information about the asteroid.  We need your help to ensure Voyager’s 36 year mission does not come to an end.
-<WRAP download 35%>Code for Project 1: Part B\\ Keep them in the same directory.\\ {{183_projects:voyager.py
+====== Project 1: Part B: Operation river boat crossing ======
-|Project 1 Code (voyager.py)}}\\ {{:183_projects:physutil.py|PhysUtil Module}}</WRAP>
+Your company, Zevo Simulations, tasks you with the completion of a "projected trajectory simulator" for your boat crossing the river. You are not sure why this would be necessary, but you decide to proceed with the project. This simulator must display the motion of the boat crossing the river, with respect to the shore. The previous design team has already done the majority of the work, but they mysteriously disappeared without completing it... The head of the division suggests you complete the project as quickly as possible!
+https://www.glowscript.org/#/user/paul.w.irving/folder/Public/program/RiverCrossing/edit
-*/