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Student Video Potential Energy Surfaces

ANNA MORALES MELGARES: Hi. My name is Anna. I'm from Barcelona, although I'm starting an EPFL, which is in Switzerland. It's the Polytechnical Federal School of Lausanne. And today, I wanted to show you potential energy surfaces. But I thought that might be a bit boring, and since it's my video, and I do what I want, I'm going to show you theme parks and slides, because why not? Going to make myself smaller here. OK. What do we have here? Well, this is the Water World. The Water World is this theme park which is in Lloret de Mar, a city next to Barcelona, kind of. And as you can see, they have these amazing slides that end up in a funnel, like you can see this guy at the bottom of the funnel just fall through this hole. But what if I want to simulate this? I would need a software that enables me to do this, right? There is some software that can do something like this, but I chose to use Wolfram Mathematica. And now I will show you my little funnel. He...