Emile Timothy
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Physics 11 Hurdle 1: Airline Traffic at San Francisco International Airport

For the first hurdle into the Physics 11 class at Caltech, Professors Rob Phillips and Dave Stevenson asked us to model the time-dependent delays of arriving and departing flights at the San Francisco Airport during the September 2019 closure of runway 28L. For this problem, I had the opportunity to read about the rich ideas of queueing theory (the Erlang B/C models). I ultimately used some of these ideas to create a randomized (Monte Carlo) algorithm to recursively find solutions to the delay problem that worked under some reasonable assumptions. I've attached my submission to this problem below.

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