This notebook contains the first homework for this class, and is due on Friday, October 23rd, 2016 at 11:59 p.m.. Please make sure to get started early, and come by the instructors' office hours if you have any questions. Office hours and locations can be found in the course syllabus. IMPORTANT: While it's fine if you talk to other people in class about this homework - and in fact we encourage it! - you are responsible for creating the solutions for this homework on your own, and each student must submit their own homework assignment.
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Look around online and find a model that you think is interesting. This model can be of anything that you are intrigued by, and as simple or complicated as you want. Write a paragraph or two describing the model, and identifying the components of the model that we talked about in class - the model's inputs, inner workings, outputs, and how one might decide if this is a good model or not. Make sure to cite your sources by providing links to the web pages that you looked at to create this description. You can either just paste the URL into the cell below, or do something prettier, like this: google. The syntax for that second one is [google](http://google.com).
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Part 1. Consider this: What volume of gasoline does a typical automobile (car, SUV, or pickup) use during its entire lifetime? How does the weight of the total fuel consumed compare to the weight of the car? How about the price of the fuel compared to the price of the car?
Come up with a simple order-of-magnitude approximation for each of those three questions, and in the cell below this one write a paragraph or two addressing each of the questions above. What are the factors you need to consider? What range of values might they have? In what way is your estimate limited? (Also, to add a twist: does it matter what type of car you choose?)
Note: if you use a Google search or two to figure out what range of values you might want to use, include links to the relevant web page(s). As described above, you can either just paste the URL, or do something prettier, like this: google. The syntax for that second one is [google](http://google.com).
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Part 2. In the space below, write a Python program to model the answer to all three of those questions, and keep track of the answers in a numpy array. Plot your answers to both questions in some convenient way (probably not a scatter plot - look at the matplotlib gallery for inspiration!). Do the answers you get make sense to you?
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This is real data. And, you're some of the first people with the chance to analyze it and make your results public.
We want you to create a new Jupyter notebook to answer this question (which will be uploaded separately, as a second document to this notebook) that we can post publicly, to the world, on the CMSE Department Homepage.
Your presentation should try to answer the following questions:
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from IPython.display import HTML
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width="80%"
height="1200px"
frameborder="0"
marginheight="0"
marginwidth="0">
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)