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    <h1>Owen Sheekey</h1>
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      <br>// physics and computer science student at the university of british columbia //
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      <br> This is my portfolio. The idea is to take interesting problems, proofs, and assignments that sort of summarizes each of my courses. 
      Sometimes they are official assignments from the course, sometimes they are embelished proofs that we worked through during class, and sometimes they are just interesting problems that are just adjacent to the topic of the course that I worked on on my own. Unlike a normal portfolio however, this is not meant to prove my skills in anything, it is more meant to give an idea of what I have done in my courses so far. For my computer science courses they will likely all just be links to my github where the various projects live. For the physics courses they are all just PDFs produced in latex and hosted here.

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      <br>      Note ** Nothing is posted yet, its still totally a work in progress! Hopefully I'll get it all up before May 2019
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      <br> <b> Thermal Physics </b>        In my opinion, one of the coolest things we did in this course was derive a proof of the ideal gas law from first principles. However,
      <br>                                 because the focus of the course was not just to prove the ideal gas law, we proved concept after concept over weeks until all of a sudden
      <br>                                 we had a full proof. So I figured it would be cool to try to write out a full proof, from first principles, all in one place. This is that. 
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      <br> <b> Intermediate Mechanics </b> One of the culminations of this course was a full ballistic integrator (yes you read that right). I have included a link to my github
      <br>                                 where it lives. I am also working on an interesting mechanics problem based on the principles of the course to post here soon.
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      <br> <b> Physics Lab </b>            This is definitely my best report of the year. We used an interferometer to measure the thermal expansion of a copper rod. Its a fairly simple 
      <br>                                 concept but it was super cool to get to use an interferometer to do it! I included a PDF of the report and a link to github with the scripts I wrote 
      <br>                                 for data analysis. <a href="final_writeup.pdf">PDF</a>
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      <br> <b> Data Structures & Algs </b> Definitely the most interesting thing we did was to write an image compression algorithm. It uses quadtrees and all sorts of classic interesting data 
      <br>                                 structures. Check it out on my github. 
      
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