BEGGINER LEVEL: Lab Help

Inspiration

We were inspired by how annoying and 'painful' it is to calculate uncertainties for science equations. They require a lot of hard partial derivatives with many small numbers and can be very difficult to calculate.

What it does

You input an equation to our java applet and then the values and uncertainties for the known parts and we will calculate your value and uncertainty for the unknown part.

How I built it

We built it in java. First, using a javacalculus open source api, we made it run in terminal successfully. Then we had a member working on trying to make it an applet which is quite bad looking right now.

Challenges I ran into

Java applets are really hard to visualize and make. Using the javacalculus api is not easy at all. Lots of parts to put together. Lots of exceptions thrown and stuff we don't really understand happened.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Having a "functioning" uncertainty calculator that really works in terminal and still functions kinda in an applet!! And it was really fun. The real accomplishment was staying up all night.

What I learned

I learned a lot about how java works. How complex java projects are put together. How helpful teamwork and teams can be. And how difficult it is to make anything with Frames.