Heat & Work vs Computational Complexity

Heat & Work is an educative application in support to a high-school or university course of thermodynamics. It contains not only a memorandum of the basic equations, but it also contains several animations illustrating the various concepts of thermodynamics. More than 45 screens of thermodynamics! For teachers !! Connect your iPad with a video projector and show the animations to your students in classroom. List of covered subjects: Basic concepts: Definitions, Properties of substances and ideal gases. First law of thermodynamics: Work, Heat transfer and flow application. Second law of thermodynamics: Heat engines, Refrigerators, entropy, Carnot cycle. Application: Rankine cycles, Ideal refrigerator cycle, Otto cycle and Diesel cycle. Each section contains at least one animation or illustration.

This app demonstrates the basic principles of computational complexity. The growth of a few typical Big-O functions are illustrated with an interactive graph, and live demonstrations of sorting algorithms can be run using randomly generated data. This app was developed at SUNY Binghamton, by Prof. Patrick H. Madden. Version 1.1 is an expansion on this, with the assistance a few students (primarily Keith Gardner, and undergrad, and Anthony Canino, an MS grad). We're working on the app as a fun project, and as a way to introduce ACM student group members to iOS programming. The source for the app is available on Github; we'll be adding more algorithms and things, and if you're interested in helping out with the development, let us know! https://github.com/keithgardner2/complexity Yay computational complexity! Yay Hartmanis and Stearns!