ANU Demo 2024

Academic Capabilities Demo 

• vCalc = Wikipedia of Calculators
• 16k+ of calculator and data webpages

Africa Nazarene Calc

• Previously ANU had a page with links to vCalc
• 3096 page Calculator Suite
  • Talents of Gold Today
• ANU specific capability.  First in the world (for now).
• GOALS:
  1. Show capability to faculty
  2. Solicit support. 
     1. Identify what mathematics and data are in your classes?
     2. Develop plan to get your class's mathematic requirements into this ANU system.

vCalc Token Types

1. Tags: Siding, Flight
2. Equations: Cylinder Weight, Canadian Dollars per Liter to US Dollars per Gallon
3. Data Items: 
   • constants Parsec  
   • dynamic gold spot
4. Calculators / Collections: Pole Barn Calc, Quaternion Calculator
5. Datasets: Beaufort Scale (manual, bulk upload, and data feeds)
6. WikiClips: Astronomy Units Information

Specific Capabilities of note:

1. Units (over 500 units in 60 categories)
   1. Unit Choice Reduction
   2. Multi-units:  DD:MM:SS to decimal degrees
2. Multi-language Support
3. Sharing Results
4. QR Code Links
5. Data table inputs (manual and upload)
6. Navigation between Collections
7. Graphing: 2nd Degree Polynomial  (add to collection)

Notable Academic Content at vCalc.com

• Unit Conversion Calculator 
• Stats Calc
  • Observation Stats (input: 3.4,24,55,-15,29 note share results)
  • Linear Regression (note tabular data input)

    • 1,5
      2,4
      3,6
      4,8
      5,7

  • Chi-Shared
  • t-test for Paired Samples
  • One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
• Vector 3D
  • Vector Components
  • Vector Rotation
• Light and Matter
  • Chapter 3.6 Motion under Constant Acceleration
  • Chapter 25.2 Oscillations (note navigation between collections)
• Engineering Publication
  • Civil Engineering paper on erecting a sandbag barrier against flooding.
• Astronomy Calc (note astronomical units wiki clip)
• Electrical Engineering (Ohm's Law)
• Ideal Gas Law
• Medicine
  • Body Surface Area 
  • Parkland Replacement Fluids (note reduced units)
• Fitness
  • Weight Lifting Calculator
  • Calories Burned Calculator
• Economics
  • Microeconomics Calculator
    • Price Elasticity of Demand
  • Investor Calculator
    • Credit Card Equation
    • Currency Converter

Exercise to Build a Calculator

• `KE = 1/2 * m * v^2`