Visualizing Tidal Forces With Python

Photo: Rhett Allain. Where there’s a beach, there’s a tide (almost always).

I am legally required to start this with the following quote.

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.

If you don’t know where that’s from, it’s fine. It’s still funny. OK, just to be clear — the tides are the rising and sinking of local ocean levels that happen twice a day. We usually associate…