True to my word, I have had meetings with the lecturers. Yesterday (Tuesday 14th), I met with Dr Lucas to discuss my question and today (Wednesday 15th) I met with my technical supervisor Dr Paris. Both were very helpful. My aim in seeing them, was to make sure my research question was good enough to carry on to the next stage. I wanted to make sure it wasn't too hard a question and equally, that it wasn't too easy. Both were happy enough with it and I found that, I could probably make it easier or harder depending on what I include. I have taken on board all of the advice they have given me and have now got a lot more ideas on what I shall be doing. I have decide that I should first look at how a particle moves and collides on a curved surface, then move onto a sphere and finally if time permits (which I hope it will), I will look at other objects such as a box or cylindrical shape. I was also told that my chosen topic will probably include maths knowledge from every teaching year of this course, which I am very happy about because it will allow me to bring in all my previous knowledge, along with present teaching, and apply it to solving a problem.
Because of some of the above mentioned reasons my research question has very slightly changed to:
How can the movements and collisions of objects on a curved surface be realistically simulated?
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Thursday 16th - went to the library session that was scheduled for us. Showed us where to find journals and e-books on my subject area. The following resources seem particularly useful:
IEEE
Safari
ACM
Scholar
ProQuest
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My aim now is to plan the research I do from now on, write everything down, keep a record of
websites/journals/articles/books that I use and also start planning my proposal and how I will implement it on screen.
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