Awesome Physics

🌌 A collaborative list of awesome software for exploring Physics concepts. Feel free to contribute!

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Contents

• Mechanics
• Waves and Acoustics
• Thermodynamics
• Electromagnetism
• Optics
• Relativity
• Quantum Physics
• Astrophysics
• Geophysics
• Organizations

Mechanics

• Kinematics
• Rigid Bodies and Physics Engines
• Fluid Mechanics
• Gravity

Kinematics

• scikit-kinematics - Python functions for working with 3D kinematics

Rigid Bodies and Physics Engines

• bullet3 - real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning
• cannon.js - A lightweight 3D physics engine written in JavaScript
• matter-js - A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web
• mujoco-py - A physics engine for detailed, efficient rigid body simulations with contacts
• myphysicslab - provides JavaScript classes to build real-time interactive animated physics simulations
• ncollide - 2 and 3-dimensional collision detection library in Rust
• newton-dynamics - an integrated solution for real time simulation of physics environments
• nphysics - 2 and 3-dimensional rigid body physics engine for Rust
• PhysX - a scalable multi-platform game physics solution
• PositionBasedDynamics - A library for the physically-based simulation of rigid bodies, deformable solids and fluids
• pydy - Multibody dynamics tool kit
• pymunk - A easy-to-use pythonic 2d physics library
• simbody - High-performance C++ multibody dynamics/physics library for simulating articulated biomechanical and mechanical systems like vehicles, robots, and the human skeleton

Fluid Mechanics

• fluid-engine-dev - Fluid simulation engine for computer graphics applications
• fluids - Fluid dynamics component of Chemical Engineering Design Library (ChEDL)
• pysph - SPH fluid simulation with advanced screen space fluid rendering, using pyopengl and pyopencl
• DualSPHysics - C++/CUDA/OpenMP based Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) solver

Gravity

• Gravity-Simulator - A 2D newtonian gravity simulator in JS
• Gravisim - A universal gravity simulator written using rust_sdl2
• pycbc - Analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters

Waves and Acoustics

• Mechanical Waves
• Sound

Mechanical Waves

• pyrocko - A seismology toolkit for Python
• sw4 - 3-D seismic modeling
• webgl-ripples - A physically realistic real-time simulation of (transversal) 2D waves in WebGL

Sound

• python-acoustics - A Python library aimed at acousticians

Thermodynamics

• cantera - A chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite
• CoolProp - Thermophysical properties for the masses
• RMG-Py - Python version of the amazing Reaction Mechanism Generator
• thermo - Thermodynamics, phase equilibria, transport properties and chemical database component of Chemical Engineering Design Library (ChEDL)
• thermopy - A python library for thermodynamics

Electromagnetism

• ElectricFieldSimulation - An experimental example of how to use OpenGL for physical simulations
• EMpy - A suite of algorithms widely known and used in electromagnetic problems and optics: the transfer matrix algorithm, the rigorous coupled wave analysis algorithm and more
• gprMax - Simulates electromagnetic wave propagation using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method for numerical modelling of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
• meep - Free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) software for electromagnetic simulations
• openEMS - A free and open-source electromagnetic field solver using the EC-FDTD method
• openmeeg - A C++ package for low-frequency bio-electromagnetism solving forward problems in the field of EEG and MEG
• PlasmaPy - A community developed python package for plasma physics in the very early stages of development.
• radis - A nonequilibrium Radiative Solver for infrared molecular spectra
• scattpy - Light Scattering Methods for Python
• scikit-beam - Data analysis tools for X-Ray, Neutron and Electron sciences
• scikit-rf - RF and Microwave Engineering Scikit
• scikit-spectra - A python pandas-based toolkit for explorative spectroscopy, in particular UVVis spectroscopic data
• scuff-em - computational physics suite for boundary-element analysis of electromagnetic scattering, fluctuation-induced phenomena, nanophotonics, RF device engineering, electrostatics, and more
• spirit - Optimizations and Dynamics Framework for atomistic Spin systems

Optics

• euclider - A higher-dimensional "non-euclidean" ray tracing prototype written in Rust
• lightpipes - Simulations of optical phenomena where diffraction is essential
• odak - A fundamental library for scientific computing in optical sciences.
• opticspy - A python module for optics applications
• poppy - Physical Optics Propagation in Python
• pyRT - a raytracer/image generator for Python
• rayopt - Python optics and lens design, raytracing
• raysect - A ray-tracing framework for optical/non-optical physics simulations

Relativity

• OpenRelativity - An open source framework to add the effects of traveling at relativistic speeds to visualizations or games
• TFG - General Relativity massively parallel raytracer

Quantum Physics

• artiq - Next-generation control system for quantum information experiments
• flavio - flavour phenomenology in the Standard model and beyond
• hepdata - the high energy physics data repository
• particle-clicker - An addictive incremental game that teaches players the history of high energy particle physics
• Psi4 - Open-source Quantum Chemistry
• pypdt - Pythonic access to high energy particle data tables and ID codes
• quantum-python-lectures - A series of self-study lectures on using Python for scientific computing at the graduate level in atomic physics and quantum optics.
• QuantumOptics.jl - Library for the numerical simulation of closed as well as open quantum systems
• qutip - Quantum Toolbox in Python
• ROOT - A data processing and analysis framework, mainly used in high-energy physics
• scikit-hep - Toolkit of interfaces and tools for high energy physics (HEP)

Astrophysics

• astropy - intended to contain much of the core functionality and some common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics with Python
• gala - Galactic and gravitational dynamics in Python
• galpy - Galactic Dynamics in python
• pynbody - framework for N-body and hydrodynamic astrophysical simulations
• sunpy - an open-source Python library for solar physics data analysis

Geophysics

• burnman - a library for modeling mantle thermodynamics and thermoelasticity constrained by mineral physics experiments
• em - Electromagnetic methods in geophysics - open educational resources
• simpeg - Simulation and Parameter Estimation in Geophysics - A python package for simulation and gradient based parameter estimation in the context of geophysical applications

Organizations

• CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
• IOP - Institute of Physics
• LANL - Los Alamos National Lab
• LIGO - Laser Inferometer Gravitational-Wave Experiment
• LLNL - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• MPPMU - Max Planck Institute for Physics
• NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
• NREL - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• SLAC - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

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