Hi. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Mike Karfunkle <[email protected]> wrote: > Sympy's ideas page for GSoC lists a variety of projects useful for > physics computation, like the ones named in this post's subject. I am > a third year physics major and possible compsci minor at the > University of Chicago and write data analysis and simulations in > Python for a cosmology/astrophysics lab--I know a lot of the math > involved and will know a great deal more of it--including in the > coming quarter, a class dedicated to Lie algebras, another to medical > applications of fourier analysis and quantum mechanics, and another on > quantum computing. > > Building a suite dedicated to these physics-related problems is a > useful project for GSoC and would be rewarding to everyone involved. > Namely I would love to create as powerful a tool as possible for > calculating Fourier and Laplace transforms, and, if possible, for > approximating eigenstates of systems--most likely by repeatedly > invoking the variational principle, since that is friendly to > recursive functions. This would necessarily include solving problems > involving the Dirac delta-function and step functions. > > Thank you, > > Michael Karfunkle
I don't know anything about physics, but you should definitely checkout the current code (see https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Getting-the-bleeding-edge and https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/development-workflow) and see what can and cannot already be done. We do have delta and step functions implemented, and fourier and laplace transforms as well. And there's a whole bunch of stuff in the physics module that as I said I have no idea what it is. This will also help you start learning how to use SymPy. Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
