and it depended on the professor. ouo
my section did the relatively simple one.
i know one guy who did this like inertia and gravity thing where you can change the speed, mass and stuff of objects in space and see how they affect each other's orbits and shit. that was scarily complex.
Yeah they basically make you spend an entire year with MATLAB.
And they make you work with the worst of MATLAB too, so we pretty much all resent it, but in another way to look at it, holy crap, we dealt with the shitty parts of MATLAB.
MATLAB is what first year engineering teaches at Purdue, so...
I don't have my own copy of MATLAB, but I do have my own copy of Mathematica... I just don't know how to use it. orz
Maybe I'll get unlazy and pirate a copy of matlab from somewhere. (I had gotten Mathematica as a prize for science...