Free physics software for linux

Physics-Live CD is a livecd mainly for physical simulations. The livecd is based on Slax livecd . It contains many physical simulations created by using c, gtk and glade. The physical simulations are taken from my research and from the internet.

I hope this livecd will be useful for learning and teaching physics and research in physics.

Physics-Live CD is a livecd mainly for physical simulations. The livecd is based on Slax livecd . It contains many physical simulations created by using c, gtk and glade. The physical simulations are taken from my research and from the internet.
I hope this livecd will be useful for learning and teaching physics and research in physics.
Enhancements:
- I am glad to announce the availability of a new minimum version of physics-livecd (physics-livecd-mini-0.1.2.iso). This livecd contains only physical simulation programs and some essential programs such as firefox and gimp. I have changed the window manager from xfce to icewm.
- I have also created a general simulation program called emwave2d.

OpenScientist is an integration of open source products working together to do scientific visualization and data analysis, in particular for high energy physics (HEP).
The project is definitely NOT one million lines of intricated and unnecessary complicated home made code reinventing everything.
Motivations
Experiments in high energy and nuclear physics need to be at the edge of computing technologies but at the same time have to face a very long life time (LHC experiments are going to be a matter of decades). This involves that the software must be organized in a way that permits to include or discard some technologies in an easy way without having to recode everything at each change of a piece.
For data analysis, the HEP community had used the CERN/PAW tool for years. Whilst this program had been used and is probably still used by hundred of physicists in the world, it is not any more maintained by the lab that created and promoted it : CERN. This lab had not been able to establish long term collaborative software engineering plans in order to have a technical follow up of this program and analysis tools in general. (What is astounding, is that the same people that were behind CERN/PAW come now with another tool (ROOT) which has exactly the same engineering defects).
OpenScientist is first of all an architecture trying to handle the problem differently to avoid upseting huge software phase transitions in the future. The key points of the system are the modularity and the openness. See the Languages, Coarse graining architecture, and The file formats intrinsic pain section for more about the technical choices and design.
Enhancements:
- An HDF5 driver was introduced in BatchLab.
- The build system was replaced with obuild.
- Support for CoinPython was added.
- Initial support was added for both Qt4 and SDL.
- Examples were added.
- Assorted code cleanups and speedups were done.

TheCurves is an application that plots a parameterized family of curves based on algebraic formulas specified by the user. This project is meant as an educational tool for mathematics, physics, and engineering.
When the program is run as an applet in a Web page, the plot parameters and formulas are configurable by HTML and dynamically scriptable, so that the applet can be initialized to present a specific plot when the page is opened or to change plots when the user clicks on a control in the Web page.
Enhancements:
- This version now uses the ant build system.

Toy Cars is a physics-based 2D racing game for Linux. The graphics and the interface use SDL and OpenGL.

Toy Cars is partly inspired by Micromachines and partly by the old Atari ST game called Jupiters Masterdrive.

XSC project is a Star Castle clone for C++ and X11.
Most of the details are from memory and a few old video game books I have kicking around from the golden days.
This is just a fun hack that Ive been working on off and on for quite a long time. I dont have any grand plans for it, except to hack on it when I feel like it.
Its always good to have something like this available when you feel like flying around and blasting the crap out of some alien bad guy for a few minutes.
The program should build on any reasonable UNIX box with a decent C++ compiler and X libraries installed.
Some portability adjustments may be necessary depending on what variety of bogosities exist in your C++ development environment.
As of version 1.3, the code is known to compile with recent versions of g++ and Suns WorkShop C++ 5.0.
If you need to modify it to build on another platform, send me the changes and Ill try to work them into my repository.
Enhancements:
- fixes for gcc-3.2
- better physics for the ship when using non-default framerates
- handle X events more efficiently
- work around problem of autoconf random tests failing on linux

Spherical Harmonics Generator provides an OpenGL-based interface to spherical harmonics.

Spherical Harmonics Generator is a useful visualization tool in chemistry and physics courses, especially when explaining orbitals and wave function components. Models are fully zoomable and dragable. Parameters can be chosen from a menu at runtime.