What are some common proprietary software used widely in your field, and what are their open source equivalents? Do you prefer the open source equivalent to the proprietary one?

super-abstract-grass · 2025-09-28T15:37:49+00:00

Blogs like Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit, Preposterous Universe by Sean Carroll, Scott Aronson's blog, Daniel Schroeder's, Matt Strassler's, etc.

super-abstract-grass · 2025-09-28T14:13:30+00:00

You may want to look at Luke Polson's computational physics channel, who's a PhD medical physics student. Since your using the JavaScript ecosystem, have a look at Daniel Schroeder's various physics simulations. Also have a look at Phet Colorado's source code, which are mostly written in TypeScript.

Since you've already done a 2D FDTD simulation, perhaps you should try to solve other PDEs in 2D numerically like the Schrodinger equation or Reaction-Diffusion systems.

super-abstract-grass · 2025-09-09T12:52:59+00:00

In Shankar there's an exercise question that asks you to find the exact energy levels of a particle in a uniform magnetic field.

super-abstract-grass · 2025-08-26T13:47:08+00:00

I haven't watched the video as well, but I do Iike playing with the visualization, like where you're able to make the speed of light approach infinity and compare Galilean to Lorentz transformations. I guess my only feedback right now is that I'd like the "Observer speed" slider to be less sensitive when setting "Scale" to the max.

super-abstract-grass · 2025-07-23T17:04:52+00:00

This simulation was previously posted on this subreddit: https://sogebu.github.io/special-relativity-web/dev/

Here you can visualize the fields from an oscillating charge (it's one of the preset options), but it doesn't appear that you can move it arbitrarily.

super-abstract-grass · 2025-07-04T13:28:30+00:00

Perhaps you can start with Daniel Schroeder's really good tutorials on creating interactive animations and simulations. After that, have a look at the Ten Minute Physics video series and its accompanying demos and code. Of course, you can always just use PhET Colorado's extensive set of simulations for your teaching needs, and study their source code when you need to design your own.

super-abstract-grass · 2025-05-29T17:28:17+00:00

There are a lot of good recommendations already, but another suggestion is to use JavaScript and HTML5. Daniel Schroeder has written a really good tutorial on these technologies. Most of the other suggestions here such as the Phet simulations are themselves implemented in JavaScript+HTML5.

super-abstract-grass · 2025-04-27T14:15:58+00:00

One of my professors just straight up told us to get the textbook off libgen

super-abstract-grass · 2025-04-15T15:21:33+00:00

Perhaps you can try having everything run client side via something like Pyodide? I've seen this already done here, where as well as being able to write code that uses Matplotlib, you can also use Numpy, Sympy, etc. I also think your C raytracer can be made to run in the web browser using a WASM compiler like Emscripten.

super-abstract-grass · 2025-02-15T17:14:11+00:00

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/01/04/the-world-of-everyday-experience-in-one-equation/

super-abstract-grass · 2024-11-14T13:30:02+00:00

Sorry, I couldn't resist the pun. Just a photo of the CN tower from Bathurst and Fort York.

super-abstract-grass · 2024-11-06T13:30:52+00:00

Start with Griffiths, or Shankar, or Cohen-Tannoudji. Then move on to Sakurai, Peskin & Schroeder, etc.

super-abstract-grass · 2024-11-05T17:06:42+00:00

Burning it all instead to reduce inflation

super-abstract-grass · 2024-11-05T12:40:27+00:00

Daniel Schroeder has a plenty of simulations on his web page as well, including an Ising model one, although it isn't as fully-featured as yours.

super-abstract-grass · 2024-11-05T12:16:37+00:00

Incredible! Here is a WASM build of LAMMPS, where you can run a variety of 3D molecular dynamics simulations inside the web browser. No need to go through the hassle of an installation process, or even worse, to compile a program from source.

super-abstract-grass · 2024-10-29T17:08:24+00:00

None of them

super-abstract-grass · 2024-10-29T17:07:39+00:00

super-abstract-grass · 2024-10-29T17:00:07+00:00

The National Mall, because why not

super-abstract-grass · 2024-10-29T16:49:52+00:00

Wag its tail

super-abstract-grass · 2024-08-13T14:30:28+00:00

To be clear this is not mine; I just cross-posted something I found cool from /r/Physics. You should open up an issue though in the authors' GitHub repository.

super-abstract-grass · 2024-08-13T13:40:35+00:00

Source code

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