Re: [sympy] Dealing with vectors (fields in particular)

2017-09-28 Thread Jason Moore
Cavendish, 3 is definitely what you should use. 2 isn't made for your use case. There was work on 3 this summer. Look for the pull requests with relevant topics. I'm not sure all has been merged yet. Feel free to help with any of the printing or other bugs. I opened an issue for the bug in 2 yest

[sympy] Dealing with vectors (fields in particular)

2017-09-28 Thread Cavendish McKay
Hello, I'm using sympy in my upper level undergraduate physics courses, and of course the subject of how to deal with vectors has come up. As far as I can tell, there are three fairly reasonable approaches at the moment: 1. use 1 x n or n x 1 matrices. Simple vector operations work fine, but v