Articles in category physics:
A Life Before And After the Dirac Delta Function
W hen I was a young physics student at university, one of my professors told us that there is a dividing line in his life. One that separates his life …
All You Need to Know about Spherical Harmonics
And how to use and visualize them in Python
Spherical harmonics are a powerful tool used in mathematics and physics to describe a wide range of phenomena. They can be used to model physical phenomena such as sound waves, …
Gradient Descent For The Schrödinger Equation With Python
Today I’ll discuss a numerical method that is widely applicable to problems in quantum mechanics and quantum chemistry, although it is rarely found in textbooks. Suppose we want to solve …
The Laplace Equation Solved Analytically With Python
Today’s Problem
Using only Python, solve the 2D Laplace equation
on a semi-infinite rectangular domain
with the boundary conditions
and
as well as
Solution with Python
The solution uses the …
The Hydrogen Atom Solved With Python
Diogoleite asked me recently, after reading my article “ Two Lines of Python to Solve The Schrödinger Equation ”, how one could use the so-called shooting method to solve the …