awesome-physics
by wbierbower
🌌 A collaborative list of awesome software for exploring Physics concepts
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Physics simulator library
A curated list of software tools and libraries for exploring and simulating various physics concepts and phenomena.
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Mechanics / Kinematics
scikit-kinematics
Python functions for working with 3D kinematics
Mechanics / 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
Mechanics / 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
Mechanics / 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
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
Waves and Acoustics / 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
QMsolve
A Python module for solving and visualizing the Schrödinger equation
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
Condensed Matter Physics
- Solid State Simulations
A software with many interactive plots in the area of solid state physics. The software isn't maintained anymore. The latest version can be downloaded via
Shut up and calculate
Python code to calculate and visualize the properties of 2 dimensional systems (such as cuprate superconductors)
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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