Exploring Physics through Open Source Simulations and Computational Methods

[Flower_648]

Hello, everyone. I am a science enthusiast, I suppose, given that I'm skeptical whether college is for me, but I spend some of my time playing with physics ideas. I hope to get further in my understanding through self study and creating computer simulations.

 

[jedishrfu]

Welcome to PF!

What software are you using for your physics simulations?

 

[Flower_648]

Welcome to PF!
What software are you using for your physics simulations?

Right now Python and C. My next project is to make interactive simulations, so I need to learn something like JavaScript.

I find the easiest way for me to digest physics concepts and test that I understand them is to teach them to a computer.

 

[jedishrfu]

Checkout Open Source Physics at www.compadre.org. Its a large collection of physics sims and library methods to handle ordinary differential equations for sims. You'll need Eclipse or Netbeans IDE and learn some java. We used the code in a Computational Physics course along with the book and it was awesome.

The book is by Gould and Tobochnik:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805377581/?tag=pfamazon01-20