[Tutor] Solving physics problems with python

Adam Eyring adameyring at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 11:04:39 EDT 2020


Humberto,
Within the scipy website that Alan mentioned, you'll see matplotlib. That's
an excellent way to do 2-D plotting. This gallery has some wonderful
examples:
https://matplotlib.org/gallery/index.html

AME

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:11 AM Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org>
wrote:

> On 12/04/2020 14:03, mixipilixi . wrote:
> > I am a physicist and am learning python. I wonder if you could recommend
> a
> > beginners reference for me to learn python with focus on physics
> > applications. I would like to learn to do calculations and plot curves
> > effectively on basic physics. Eventually I would like to move to more
> > complex physics subjects.  One of my interests is quantum computing,
> among
> > others.
> >
> > Thank you for having this wonderful resource available to us users,
> > especially us beginners
> >
> > Humberto figueroa
>
> Hi Humberto.
>
> If you are doing science with python you should install(if you haven't
> already) one of the SciPy distributions of Python. (You can install all
> the bits separately but its much easier to get it all in one)
> The best known example is Anaconda. (Another option is Enthought Canopy)
>
> As a physicist I'll assume you already know how to program in some other
> language and can pick up the basics of the Python language from the
> official tutor at python.org.
>
> After that head to the SciPy website where there are many tutorials on
> the various scipy packages. Thee is also a web forum where other science
> users hang out.
>
> https://www.scipy.org/getting-started.html
>
> This forum is fine for general python/programming questions but only
> a relatively small proportion of our members are working in science.
>
> --
> Alan G
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