What is Open Source Physics and how can it be used for simulations?

[Incanus]

Hello!

I'm a software developer with a CS degree and the associated level of math and physics knowledge; little and none, respectively. :) I've been a fan of these forums and the high level of discussion for a while. I even had a lurker account back in 2008, but sadly it appears to have vanished.

See you all on the forums!

 

[jedishrfu]

Welcome to PF!

Have tried doing software simulations of physical systems?

 

[Incanus]

Thanks! I used to love making simple particle simulations, but nothing as cool as some of the awesome elasticity or fluid mechanics demos I've seen others do.

 

[jedishrfu]

There's a cool toolkit with lots of examples in Java for doing simulations called Open Source Physics
At www.compadre.org/osp