Thanks for the advice and sorry for taking so long to reply! I'm still navigating all the code, but there looks to be some places which could be improved upon, now I need to see what I can actually do with it.
On Mar 22, 8:48 pm, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:34 PM, MikeKarfunkle > > > > > > > > > > <[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, > > > MichaelKarfunkle > > I don't know anything about physics, but you should definitely > checkout the current code > (seehttps://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Getting-the-bleeding-edgeandhttps://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.
