I have to agree with Stefan here. In optics, the usual manipulations and calculations are better done with a simple matrix - though if we need to express vectors/coordinates in different systems, you could use the vector API- but that would just be the minimal use. The core operations would be done better with matrices (and faster too). @Sudhanshu, can you think of any optics application that would require heavy-duty vector stuff?
On Monday, March 3, 2014 4:13:29 PM UTC+5:30, Sudhanshu Mishra wrote: > > Hi > > I am a second year undergraduate student of Information Systems from BITS > Pilani, India. > I like Physics and I've been using Python for an year. I started > developing a Python package called BinPy <https://github.com/BinPy/BinPy/>for > electronics computation and simulation. > This <https://github.com/debugger22> is my Github profile. > > I want to propose an idea to introduce a new package for optical physics > in sympy. I want to do this as a project under GSoC14. > > Since we already have vector, optical physics can easily be implemented. > As of now only Guassian optics is available. > If we add more things like Newtonian optics, Maxwell's equation, Fermat's > principle, Snell's laws and many more concepts, > It would be very helpful for the users to do scientific computations > related to optics using sympy. > > If you like this idea, guide me what should I do now to get familiar with > the physics package of sympy. > > With Regards > Sudhanshu Mishra > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/27bd6d73-1b6c-4ef7-9ba1-022095d21817%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
