Aaron, Both Jain and Featherstone each have a book about this subject. Last year's GSoC student worked on the Featherstone implementation. There is still an open pull request with this. I would start by reviewing what Brandon (James) did last year and figure out what it will take to finish it.
Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Aaron Miller <acmiller...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings SymPy Team, > > My name is Aaron Miller, and I'm a third-year undergrad studying Physics > and Computer Science. I'm really interested in your projects relating to > Classical Mechanics. In particular, the task of working on an O(N) > Equations of Motion method sounds like it could be very interesting. > Honestly, I'm not familiar with the Featherstone/Jain methods of forming > equations of motion, but I'd love to learn it. Is there a particular > reference (paper, article, book, etc.) that is particularly useful for > learning about this method? A quick Google search turned up this paper > <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02783649922066619>, is that > the method that I would be implementing? Also, I know the ideas page says > an ideal candidate would already be familiar with this method; would I be > better off applying for one of the other Physics-related projects, or do I > have a good shot at applying for this one (especially given that this one > sounds more interesting to me)? > > Aaron Miller > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/sympy/428dc0c9-7ad1-47b8-92a0-de1a9cd984e3%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/428dc0c9-7ad1-47b8-92a0-de1a9cd984e3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AjJXJc95dJqHW7veiwjnfyo3d2Hi-Hhk%3D5pJE1fh2FVpw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
