Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!


Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!

Happy birthday to a legend in mathematics and astronomy, Katherine Johnson! 

Learn more about this legendary mathematician who played a huge role in of getting astronauts into space while breaking down doors and societal barriers here:

NASA’s autobiography of Katherine Johnson:

West Virginia State University Honors Johnson and Names a Scholarship after her:

Daily Press:  ‘Human Computer’ turns 100

May the 100th birthday find the Ms. Johnson in good health and in good spirits.  May the women of Hidden Figures be no longer hidden and remembered and celebrated for centuries to come.

Eddie

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Eclipse and HHC 2017

Eclipse

On August 21, 2017 there will be a solar eclipse.  Totality (where the moon completely covers the sun) will occur in the northern part of Earth, including some of the United States.  

If you can't get to an area where you can see the eclipse, I believe it is possible to watch it online.  

For more information, click here:
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/

HHC 2017

I am looking foward to the HHC 2017 (HP Handheld Conference) in Nashville in September.  I will be speaking on the HP 12C calculator, one of the stables of the HP calculators.

For more information, click here:
http://hhuc.us/2017/

Stay safe, stay sane, and I will probably speak with you by the end of August!

Eddie

Sunday, September 25, 2016

HP Prime Basic Planetary Data

HP Prime Basic Planetary Data

The program PLANETS and PLANETDATA retrieve data about our solar system planets, including our dwarf planet, Pluto. 

PLANETS presents you with a choose menu which will present a screen of all the data for a planet.



PLANETDATA allows you to retrieve a specific item for a planet.  PLANETDATA has two arguments:  n for the planet, k for the data point.  This is useful if you want to pull out a specific data point for calculations.

Table for PLANETDATA(n, k):                              
Value
Planet (n)
Data Point (k)
1
Mercury
Name of the Planet
2
Venus
Radius (km)
3
Earth
Mass (kg)
4
Mars
Gravity (m/s^2)
5
Jupiter
Density (g/cm^3)
6
Saturn
Axial tilt (°)
7
Uranus
Period (days)
8
Neptune
Number of Moons
9
Pluto (dwarf planet)


Example:

The gravity on Mars.  PLANETDATA(4,4) returns 3.71 m/s^2.

The diameter of Saturn.  PLANETDAT(6,2) returns 58,232 km.



HP Prime Program:  PLANETS
EXPORT PLANETS()
BEGIN
// Solar System Data
// solarsystem.nasa.gov
// EWS 2016-09-25

LOCAL head, data, n, k, str;
head:={"Planet","Radius (km)",
"Mass (kg)","Gravity (m/s^2)",
"Density (g/cm^3)",
"Axial tilt (°)",
"period (days)",
"# Moons"};
data:={{"Mercury",2439.7,
3.30104ᴇ23,3.7,5.427,.034,
58.646,0},
{"Venus",6051.8,
4.86732ᴇ24,8.87,5.243,177.36,
243.018,0},
{"Earth",6371,
5.9722ᴇ24,9.80665,5.513,23.4393,
365.24,1},
{"Mars",3389.5,
6.4169ᴇ23,3.71,3.934,25.19,
687,2},
{"Jupiter",69911,
1.89813ᴇ27,24.79,1.326,3.1,
4332.59,67},
{"Saturn",58232,
5.68319ᴇ26,10.4,.687,26.7,
10759.22,62},
{"Uranus",25362,
8.68103ᴇ25,8.87,1.27,97.8,
30688.5,27},
{"Neptune",24622,
1.0241ᴇ26,11.15,1.638,28.3,
60182,14},
{"Pluto",1151,
1.3090ᴇ22,0.66,2.05,122.53,
90560,5}
};

CHOOSE(n,"Planet",{"Mercury","Venus",
"Earth","Mars","Jupiter","Saturn",
"Uranus","Neptune"});

// Print Screen

PRINT();
FOR k FROM 1 TO SIZE(head) DO
str:=head(k)+": "+data(n,k);
PRINT(str);
END;

RETURN "Done.";

END;

HP Prime Program: PLANETDATA
EXPORT PLANETDATA(n,k)
BEGIN
// Solar System Data
// solarsystem.nasa.gov
// Individual data
// Get data on the fly
// EWS 2016-09-25


LOCAL head, data;
head:={"Planet","Radius (km)",
"Mass (kg)","Gravity (m/s^2)",
"Density (g/cm^3)",
"Axial tilt (°)",
"period (days)",
"# Moons"};
data:={{"Mercury",2439.7,
3.30104ᴇ23,3.7,5.427,.034,
58.646,0},
{"Venus",6051.8,
4.86732ᴇ24,8.87,5.243,177.36,
243.018,0},
{"Earth",6371,
5.9722ᴇ24,9.80665,5.513,23.4393,
365.24,1},
{"Mars",3389.5,
6.4169ᴇ23,3.71,3.934,25.19,
687,2},
{"Jupiter",69911,
1.89813ᴇ27,24.79,1.326,3.1,
4332.59,67},
{"Saturn",58232,
5.68319ᴇ26,10.4,.687,26.7,
10759.22,62},
{"Uranus",25362,
8.68103ᴇ25,8.87,1.27,97.8,
30688.5,27},
{"Neptune",24622,
1.0241ᴇ26,11.15,1.638,28.3,
60182,14},
{"Pluto",1151,
1.3090ᴇ22,0.66,2.05,122.53,
90560,5}
};

IF n==0 THEN
RETURN head;
ELSE
RETURN data(n,k);
END;

END;

Sources:

NASA Solar System Exploration.  https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/


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