PHYS5032 Techniques for Sustainability Analysis – Assignment 1Submit your answers to homework sheet questions marked with (A) in a single document. For assignment 1, only use homework sheets 1, 2, and 3. Total points for this assignment: 40 General Idea of the Assignment The aim of this lecture is to give you a broad overview over the different mathematical tools that may be useful should you ever encounter a sustainability tasks that involves data analysis. During the lectures, we could only touch on the basic concepts of each of the different tools. The assignments are aimed at helping you revisit the contents of this lecture in the future. It is therefore important that you – where useful – augment your answers by explanatory text. Task: Write a report-style summary of your homework sheets 1, 2, and 3. Your submissions should be a document that can serve you to revisit the lecture contents at a later date. Please note that just answering the mathematical question is not enough. Please refer to the marking rubric for more information. In short: Show me that you understood what we are talking about, and write it down so that I can see that you will understood what you wrote in five years’ time. You should demonstrate that you 1. Understood for each of the different topics we covered what problem they tackle and what information they can provide. 2. Know what the mathematical ideas behind each topic are (i.e. what formulas do you need to actually use a particular concept). 3. Know how to read and interpret the results (for example for the first lectures: why do I need to run a t-test after I have fitted a curve through the cloud of points?). 4. You are able to answer the questions in an easy-to-read style and that you (yes you, not me) will understand what you wrote when you revisit your assignment document in the future. There are a few points that will help you get a better mark and help you revisit your material in the future: 1. Write down the key tasks for each week with your homework. There is no need to copy the actual homework sheet in. But if you write “this week’s task: fit a curve through a cloud of points”, that will help. Use your own words to explain the concepts presented in the lecture. 2. If you were unable to produce the correct results, write a few lines what you tried to understand why it didn’t work out. Format Single file submissions only. Accepted file format: Word, PDF.Due date and submission Assignment due date: Friday, 2nd October 2020, 11.59pm sharp. Submit your assignment through Canvas/turnitin. General Idea of the Assignment The aim of this lecture to give you a broad overview over the different mathematical tools that may be useful should you ever encounter a sustainability task that involves data analysis. During this lecture we could only touch on the basic concepts of each of the different tools. You might agree that is was still quite complicated at times. In this light, the homework tasks only focused on applying the formulas that we discussed to numerical examples. The assignment is aimed at helping you revisit this the contents of this lecture in the future. When I mark the assignment, I would like to see that you 5. Understood for each of the different topics we covered what problem they tackle and what information they can provide. 6. Know what the mathematical ideas behind each topic are (i.e. what formulas do you need to actually use a particular concept). 7. Know how to read and interpret the results (for example for the first lectures: why do I need to run a t-test after I have fitted a curve through the cloud of points?). 8. Wrote your homework in an easy to read style and that will you understand what you wrote in the future. There are a few points that will help you get a better mark and revisit you material in the future: 3. Write down the key tasks for each week with you homework. There is no need to copy the actual homework sheet in. But if you write “this week’s task: fit a curve through a cloud of points”, that will help. In this case you can also discuss in your own words what “t-test” for example means. 4. You could arrange your homework in an Excel file and give each week’s homework a separate sheet. That way it’s an easy front-to-end reading experience. 5. If you were unable to produce the correct result, write a few lines what you tried to understand why it didn’t work out. |