TY - GEN
T1 - Theoretical physics, applied mathematics and visualizations
AU - Sarafian, Haiduke
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - The conceptual aspects of the majority of physical phenomena readily are comprehensible, yet their analysis conducive to justifiable output require mathematical justifications. Applied mathematics is the backbone of theoretical physics. No field in physics in particular and science in general is immune. Within the last couple of decades advances in computer science introduced a fresh pathway, computational physics, augmenting the field. The offspring of these innovations is the scientific software capable of performing operations that could not be accomplished traditionally. The impact of these spectacular innovative technologies is evidence in scientific literature. The focus of this article is to demonstrate the graphical usefulness of one such scientific software, Mathematica analyzing the electrostatic features of discrete charge distributions. This is an example of a theoretical physics problem focusing on the overlap of physics, graphics and math. Ever since its birth a quarter century ago, Mathematica steadily has been growing in popularity and practicality. This article embodies the codes compatible with the latest version of the software including one, two and three dimensional sliders. Practitioner physicists, interested individuals and mathematicians may adjust the code to meet their needs.
AB - The conceptual aspects of the majority of physical phenomena readily are comprehensible, yet their analysis conducive to justifiable output require mathematical justifications. Applied mathematics is the backbone of theoretical physics. No field in physics in particular and science in general is immune. Within the last couple of decades advances in computer science introduced a fresh pathway, computational physics, augmenting the field. The offspring of these innovations is the scientific software capable of performing operations that could not be accomplished traditionally. The impact of these spectacular innovative technologies is evidence in scientific literature. The focus of this article is to demonstrate the graphical usefulness of one such scientific software, Mathematica analyzing the electrostatic features of discrete charge distributions. This is an example of a theoretical physics problem focusing on the overlap of physics, graphics and math. Ever since its birth a quarter century ago, Mathematica steadily has been growing in popularity and practicality. This article embodies the codes compatible with the latest version of the software including one, two and three dimensional sliders. Practitioner physicists, interested individuals and mathematicians may adjust the code to meet their needs.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-42432-3_45
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-42432-3_45
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978805840
SN - 9783319424316
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 366
EP - 370
BT - Mathematical Software - 5th International Conference, ICMS 2016, Proceedings
A2 - Greuel, Gert-Martin
A2 - Sommese, Andrew
A2 - Koch, Thorsten
A2 - Paule, Peter
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 5th International Conference on Mathematical Software, ICMS 2016
Y2 - 11 July 2016 through 14 July 2016
ER -