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Teaching myself, as a physicist, to become a better programmer
I've always liked physics, and I've always liked coding, so when I got the offer for a PhD position doing numerical physics (details are not relevant, it's mostly parallel programming for a cluster) ...
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Idea for a physics–computer science joint curriculum and textbook
I want to write (and have starting outlining) a physics textbook which assumes its reader is a competent computer programmer. Normal physics textbooks teach physical formulas and give problems that ...
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Python potential for science applications? [duplicate]
I'm a beginner in programming. I am learning Python as a hobby. However, after reading some things in what concerns, for example, its speed, I asked again myself if I should really learn Python or ...
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Is video game programming usually physics related?
I know this is obviously not true for some games, minesweeper, card games, etc. But what about any game involving simulating the real world environment. Obviously these games have some form of a ...
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confusion between these two networking terms: transmission rate vs. propagation speed
I read this in TCP/IP PROTOCOL SUITE second edition, written by Behrouz A. Forouzan and Sophia Chung Fegan.
In traditional Ethernet, the minimum frame length is 520 bits, the transmission rate is ...
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Is there a canonical book on game physics?
I'm getting into 2D game programming using Microsoft XNA. I've looked at some libraries like Faseer and Box2d, but I've found some limitations and would like to instead write my own physics engine.
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LaTeX-like display programming environment
I used to be a hobbyist programmer, but now I'm also a fairly experienced physicist and find myself programming to solve certain problems quite a lot. In physics, we use variables with superscripts, ...
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Help me understand this “mindmap / constellation” visual pattern
Please help me identify and understand this visual pattern, what's the common name used for such mindmap / constellation visualisations?
http://asterisq.com/products/constellation/roamer/demo
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Using C++ to solve thermo dynamic equations [closed]
I've been googling like crazy, does anyone know of an OpenSource project that uses C++ to solve physics and thermodynamics equations?
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Sophomore physics major with a lot of interest in CS. Is it better to double major, or just have experience? [closed]
I'm a sophomore, and I have a lot of my physics major requirements done.
I love physics, but I've figured out that I really don't want to go into academic physics. I am, however, quite interested in ...
