NOT A SPHERICAL COW! ASTR260 Jeopardy for G2

Python, Coding & Visualization

100

The largest float-point number that a Python variable can hold.

10³⁰⁸

200

The linux command to delete a file in your directory.

Rm filename

500

In data visualization, ASK stands for…

accuracy, story, knowledge

1000

This Linux command allows you to read a file from your terminal (hint: it also shares the name of a loving animal).

Cat

Uncertainties

100

Approximation and rounding are two types of …

Error

Linear Equations

100

The number of significant digits Python will store.

16 significant digits

500

L * U in LU factorization results in this. 

A (the original matrix)

Integrals

100

The variable type of ‘Cicero’.

String

200

An approximation rule that requires an even number of subintervals.

Simpson’s Rule

Fourier

200

A fourier series expands functions into terms of sin and cos a taylor series expands functions into…

Powers of x

500

We can represent the angular speed as this Greek letter.

ω (lowercase omega)

1000

e^-iωt is written in what other way using Euler’s equations.

cos(ω t) + isin(ω t)

1000

What is the equation to represent a complex number on a complex plane using Euler's rule?

Re^iΘ = Rcos(Θ)+iRsin(Θ)