We've had students succeed that don't know physics well but are fast learners. It really depends on your motivation, ability to self learn new physics topics, and the project you plan to implement.
Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 9:47 PM Mhd Ali <muhamzy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > Does someone have to be really conversant with physics to handle a project > like that? > > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 2:24 PM Jason Moore <moorepa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sudeep, >> >> The topics related to sympy.physics.vector/mechanics are still >> possibilities. I will have time to mentor this summer if someone wants to >> do projects in this realm. >> >> We have not updated the ideas page yet for this year so those could be >> adjusted. Off the top of my head here are some things that I think are >> priorities: >> >> - Finish and enhance the work of Sahil Shekhewat so that models can be >> built with body and joint specifications (unmerged GSOC work). >> - Finish and enhance the work of James Milam (jbm950) that adds a >> FeatherstoneMethod. This is one way to increase the computational >> efficiency. One thing that is missing are nice implementations of spatial >> vectors and their operators. >> - Finish and enhance the work of Nikhil Pappu. The Autolev parser needs >> to be battle tested on some examples and bugs worked out. We need the tests >> in the private gitlab repo to actually be run by SymPy. (merged, but not >> polished GSOC work). >> - The Linearizer class was updated by James Crist, but I think it is >> effectively broken for more complex problems. This needs to be fixed and we >> need examples of it working for systems with holonomic and nonholonomic >> constraints. >> - Improve symbolic computational speed. Hard examples need to be profiled >> and the Python implementations improved, work on the core differentiation >> algorithms to maximize speed, and ensure that optional dependencies on >> symengine function and help for hard problems. >> - Develop a more comprehensive set of examples. I've started creating >> more and migrating threse to the PyDy documentation: >> https://pydy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#examples. One barrier to user >> adoption is the lack of examples that are clearly written that cover all >> types of dynamic systems. >> - I've recently discovered that for some problems the resulting symbolic >> equations are in a form that results in numerical error accumulation in the >> arithmetic. This is problematic and figuring out what this issue is and >> remedying it would be a nice improvement. >> - All of these PRs are hanging: >> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3Aphysics.mechanics >> and it would be nice to resolve them and get them merged. >> - If work can be done on PyDy, as has in the past, there are several >> things there too 1) support DAEs, 2) improve the visualizer in a number of >> ways, 3) migrate examples to jupyter-sphinx, etc. >> >> At this point, I'm generally in disfavor of proposing any new features or >> extensions to the library over fixing and improving what we already have. >> As you can see, we have several GSoC projects that were not fully polished >> off or were not merged at all. >> >> Jason >> moorepants.info >> +01 530-601-9791 >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 8:25 AM Sudeep Sidhu <sudeepmanilsi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> While going through ideas , I found this idea , *Classical Mechanics: >>> Efficient Equation of Motion Generation with Python*, very appealing . >>> I wanted to know if this idea is outdated or is being considered for this >>> year's GSoC . >>> >>> -- >>> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/7f6f725c-a4a0-4c11-895b-a4eb1e83f837n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/7f6f725c-a4a0-4c11-895b-a4eb1e83f837n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AgguJTXrTiNpZVS-oe9-jT8BjeSqRiJRPCmbhj4mC4b5A%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AgguJTXrTiNpZVS-oe9-jT8BjeSqRiJRPCmbhj4mC4b5A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CANV73fFWXeJqWNe8PWm4y5GC2F0%3DJyiNoN-HCz_uGnGfBx%3DZMw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CANV73fFWXeJqWNe8PWm4y5GC2F0%3DJyiNoN-HCz_uGnGfBx%3DZMw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. 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