Wolfram|Alpha Launches Network Admin Professional Assistant and Physics I Course Assistant
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Our ever-growing family of Wolfram|Alpha-powered iOS apps is gaining two new additions today, including the first in our new Professional Assistant series, as well as another entry in our Wolfram Course Assistant Apps. Launching today for iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone are the Physics I Course Assistant and the Network Admin Professional Assistant App. We designed our Professional Assistant Apps with working professionals in mind. They include content specific to each profession and reference information a professional may look up over the course of a normal day.
The Network Admin Professional Assistant is a useful addition to a network admin’s IT toolbox, whether at home or on the job.
Using the app, a network admin can utilize such features as data transfer calculators, TCP/IP calculators and converters, satellite information including altitude and azimuth, and more.
The app is also handy when generating passwords on the fly:
The Physics I Course Assistant is the latest in our series of Wolfram Course Assistant Apps, designed specifically with an optimized keyboard to help those taking introductory physics classes.
The app assists with multiple topics covered in Physics I classes, including forces, linear and rotational kinematics, celestial mechanics, and more. For example, it can help calculate the forces and motion of a block or ball on an inclined plane:
It can also be used to calculate the gravitational force between two point masses using Newton’s law of universal gravitation. Just enter both masses, and the app will do the rest of the work:
Stay tuned to our blog for more upcoming Wolfram|Alpha-powered apps. What professions would you like us to create apps for?
Thats awesome. Number theory and group theory would be good additions. I just wish there was also a focus on Android. With their announcement of the ADK, it would be interesting to have a Wolfram app that collected real experiment data(like for undergrad/highschool physics labs).
That sound’s really great. Is there any possibility that these applications are made available for windows phone? Since i am a windows phone user, i would love to have this on my phone.
I suggest you publish the ‘Algoriithms’ that underly ‘Course Assistants’ and ‘Professional Assistants’ as the best means of communicating exactly what they are.
It would also be a step towards W|A generating them for its other algorithms.
Brian Gilbert, Volunteer Curator
information on the fit is good enough to increase my knowledge further
Wolfram Alpha can not evolve very fast as long as so much of the work is by people. Any radical change will result in immense revision to the code. indedd so much that it will be financially impreactical.
Therefore W|A should be programmed at the highest level practical and left to generate the lower levels itself. This would fit in with my suggestion above whereby W|A would be programmed to generate ‘Course Assistants’ and ‘Professional Assistants’ from the minimal data provided manually. Also APIs. Then in the event of a fundamental change they would all be regenerated by W|A and not through months or years of manual work.
This is great and all, but not everyone uses Iphone. I understand it takes work to port these, but it would be awesome if there were versions available for android and windows phones.
I agree with Brian, Chris and Andy. It sounds like a good application for online physics experiments.