+1 for sympy.physics.mechanics

~Luke

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Brian Granger <elliso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Luke <hazelnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:26 PM, krastanov.ste...@gmail.com
>> <krastanov.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What would the classical module contain? Won't "newtonian", "galilean"  or
>>> just "mechanics" be more suitable in this case?
>>
>> physics.classical will contain what Gilbert is working on for his GSoC
>> project.  His project is focused is on rigid body mechanics,
>> especially multi-body systems.  It provides tools for performing
>> convenient 3d vector kinematics, as well as algorithms for deriving
>> equations of motion "automatically".  I guess "classical mechanics" or
>> "newtonian mechanics" would more precisely describe what his project
>> is about, and we decided that it would make sense to put this sort of
>> thing into sympy.physics.classical
>>
>>>
>>> For example Hamiltonian mechanics applies to boot classical and quantum
>>> physics. Also optics/thermodynamics/stat. phys./etc don't play well with
>>> such separation.
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps it would make more sense to put his project into
>> sympy.physics.classicalmechanics, or even just
>> sympy.physics.mechanics?
>
> I think that "classical" or "mechanics" make the most sense.  Because
> classical physics also includes other areas (E&M, thermo, etc), maybe
> mechanicsa makes the most sense.
>
> Brian
>
>>> Anyway, this can be changed later.
>>>
>>> If you prepare the skeleton files I would be happy to go over the code and
>>> document the parts that I use.
>>
>> Cool, thanks!  I'll mail the list when I get this up and running on a
>> github branch.
>>
>> ~Luke
>>
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>> On 7 June 2011 20:34, Luke <hazelnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >> 1)  Should any of the code in sympy.physics be bundled into it's own
>>>> >> submodule (similar to quantum and/or classical)?
>>>> >
>>>> > You could have either a 'physics' submodule and a 'classical'
>>>> > subsubmodule, or a 'classical physics' and a 'quantum physics'
>>>> > submodule. I don't really care either way, and this should be easy to
>>>> > change later. The first one corresponds more to the (intended)
>>>> > structure of the physics-related code.
>>>>
>>>> I think having a physics submodule with 'classical' and 'quantum'
>>>> subsubmodules make sense.  I'll leave the other physics subsubmodules
>>>> (units, matrices, hydrogen, etc.) where they are for now and if it
>>>> makes sense to rearrange things, we can do that down the road.
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> >> 2)  Are there reasons this part of sympy has not been added to
>>>> >> docs.sympy.org in the past (other than lack of time)?
>>>> >
>>>> > No, it should be there, it is just that noone yet made sure it's
>>>> > generated correctly when building the docs.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> I'll get started on this.
>>>>
>>>> ~Luke
>>>>
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