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Tutorials & Learning Guides

Welcome to the Soft Potato Learning Hub! Explore hands-on tutorials covering electrochemistry simulations, and scientific Python programming, for students, researchers, and computational scientists. This section is in active development and will be updated continuously.

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Electrochemistry Simulations

Interactive simulations, numerical solvers, and analytical benchmarking with Soft Potato:

  • Cottrell — 1D potential-step diffusion simulation, concentration profiles, Cottrell plots, and diffusivity extraction.
  • Cyclic Voltammetry — Reversible electron transfer (\(O + e^- \rightleftharpoons R\)), triangular sweep generation, Randles–Ševčík diagnostics, and peak separation analysis.

Python

Foundational scientific programming tutorials designed for researchers and engineers:

  • Installing Python — Installing official Python across operating systems, setting up an isolated virtual environment, and running an analytical chronoamperometry test in IDLE to verify your setup.