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🌌 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

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

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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