On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:14 AM, kstueve <kevin.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As my work on prime_pi and nth_prime is drawing to a close, William > Stein and I have discussed the possibility of me making a graphical > physics program to be included in Sage, the free open source math > program. > > An example of the desired functionality is to either with a few lines > of code from within a Sage worksheet, or by clicking buttons in a > graphical user interface (GUI) create a physics problem with > components such as ramps, blocks, balls, pulleys, and springs, and > processes such as motion (translational or rotational), collisions > (elastic, inelastic, completely inelastic), and forces (friction, > gravity, normal forces, driving forces, etc). > > I am expecting the VIGRE grant from the National Science Foundation > (NSF) to support my work, so I will be able to devote a lot of time to > this project. > > I would like to obtain any and all suggestions for what features, > functionality etc. could be included in this program. Please don't be > afraid to contribute an idea. No suggestion is too large or too > small. > > A few of the possible ideas that I have come up with so far: > > Allowing time to be solved for-e.g. exactly how long does it take for > an event to occur, such as for velocity to reach 0. > > Using multi-precision arithmetic and error analysis to solve a problem > to a specified accuracy-e.g. what is the velocity of an object at a > certain time to the 100th decimal (for problems that don't include too > much chaos). > > Creating a human readable physics problem specification language that > allows the locations and properties of each component to be specified > (perhaps similar to standard circuit specification languages). > > Allow matrices, systems of DEs, tables of values, etc that describe > the physics problem to be accessed with Sage commands. > > Symbolic solving for problems that lend themselves to symbolic > solving.
You might also consider integrating pydy in: http://pydy.org/ it uses sympy to generate the equations of motion for a rigid body and scipy to solve them. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
