Visualization Definition and 89 Threads

I am glad for a place like this where I can come to discuss what is on my mind with those interested. My delema is expanding my conceptual understanding of relativity and how it realates to space time and gravity. To begin I will go over how I have come to understand space time...

I just downloaded scilab because Wolfram Alpha wouldn't want to plot the function I'd like. In a physics problem I've found the temperature distribution of a 2 dimensional system. I'd like to visualize this function in 3d. The function I want to plot is u(x,y)=\frac{1}{\pi} \arctan \left (...

What fields / disciplines of that field does mathematical visualization fall under. I know numerical computational geometry is one , where you wright algorithms to develop programs to visualize mathematics.

I would like some help in visualizing electromagnetism in three dimensions. I have researched extensively and have come up with nothing but sine waves and pond ripples. But just like sine waves representing sound, which are three dimensional compression waves, do not represent how sound...

I ran this experiment to find out what a gun would look like while shooting under water. Turns out to be quite interesting. The muzzle blast is NOT spherical as I first assumed. Regards, Mrpennywhistle

Hey people! I'm new to this forum. I feel sorry I hadn't discovered it earlier. Some of the discussions here seem pretty interesting to me at least and I feel there are a lot of things to learn. I open this post to talk about mental imagery, the visualization of concepts in physics...

Firstly, let me excuse myself for not knowing the most appropriate location to post this question. This is a question pertaining to Graph Theory, but the heart of the application is intended to be driven by the math and/or simulation of classical physics. At work I am currently attempting to...

Math has pretty much always come easy to me, but I find Calc III very hard. I just can't visualize things. It has me really worried that perhaps a math major might be too difficult for me. I just want to know if there is any part of math where I wouldn't have to deal so much with visualizing...

I'm TAing an introductory class, and of course Miller indices and unit cells versus primitive cells and all that crystallographic stuff is a big first week. It's tough for some students to wrap their heads around all the 3-D symmetries, and *really* tough for me to draw all those structures on...

I'd like to invite you to help me visualize the following (and point out possible flaws in the scenario). Let's assume that two particles are in an entangled state. We leave one of the particles here on Earth and put the other on a spaceship. We accelerate the spaceship to relativistic...

I have seen in this forum number of discussions about problems of spin visualization. I think the problem is that spin usually is visualized as rotating charged billiard ball. But this classical picture requires that this billiard ball after any time interval resembles itself just with...

Hello, does anybody have experience in visualization of the 6pz orbitals? I would like to plot this orbital with python using mayavi or something different. THX

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to use: http://www.wolframalpha.com/. I would like to be able to evaluate this function with different initial values and visualize results in some way, if possible: d^2F = k/r^2 * i1*dl1 \times (i2*dl2 \times R) Evaluate and visualize: k= 5, i1=i2= 1...

I have poor spatial reasoning skills yet I still dream of becoming an physicist(astrophysics really). In Calc I-II and Physics I I didn't have much difficulty because everything can be brought down to a 2d problem at most. Now in Calc III and E&M I am really hitting somewhat of a wall regarding...

http://www.ted.com/talks/joann_kuchera_morin_tours_the_allosphere.html I have been a long time viewer, fan of the Technology, Engineering, Design (TED) website, and would like to know if physicists who conduct serious experiments to verify existing theories either have used or were aware of...

Does anybody know how quarks are formed? and why they always in fraction numbers like 1/3, 2/3. Since charge are always quantized. does this mean quarks are not quantized.?.

So I'm having a problem actually visualizing what close to light speed travel would look like, both from the viewpoint of an observer on Earth and from the viewpoint of an on-board traveller. It doesn't seem that any of the visualizations in the movies fit my understanding of it, so maybe I've...

Hello Everyone I have a few questions regarding line integrals. First what are they? What is the difference between them and the normal integrals? For eg, The normal integrals can be easily understood by visualizing the area bounded by them, in the same way is there any way as to visualize the...

Suppose I have an electric motor, and I wish to visualize how the magnetic field change by time. Is it possible for me to visualize the magnetic field line without using iron powder or ferrofluid? Is it possible to have multiple hall sensors to detect magnetic field strength in various location...

Does anyone know of any interactive/good visual website for the adding and subtracting of planes? I'm doing the intersection of 2 planes right now, and I was just wondering if you had 2 cartesian eq'ns say 5x+2y+7z+1=0 and 5x-6y+8z-1=0, if you minus the 2 equations you'll have eliminated x, and...

I had some colleagues in College who took a degree in Math on their first two years. After finishing their second year, they shifted to a different course. They already finished from Algebra to Calculus and they were in an even higher math. They were asked to prove that 1 + 1 = 3 This is...

Any suggestions for good tree visualization software? I'm thinking something along the likes of Treemap. Thanks!

well i have understood that bohr's model had a flaw and i have understood that electrons can orbit those radii around the nucleus where nk=2*3.14r where they behave like standing waves.i am not able to visualize the nature of electron as a wave particularly standing,eg we can visualize matter...

Hi, I am taking a Data Mining course and have this problem in radial visualization. To complete this problem, we use some physics formulas, which I really do not understand. Derive formulas for radial visualization of: a. 3-dimensional samples b. 8-dimensional samples Homework Equations...

how to visualize three dimensional figures for example quadratic surfaces in three dimention when graph is plotted on two dimensional sheet which is usually the case.

What is the definition of Magnetic Flux? My textbook tells me that it may be 'visualised as the total number of magnetic field lines rather tan their concentration... be aware that this is NOT a definition.' thank you

CCDs can capture visible/infrared/etc... EM radiation. Is there any way to visualize or capture lower frequency radiation such as microwaves or radio frequency radiation?

Molecular visualization software?? Hello, I have recently started working in the field of biophysics and I need to produce some visualizations (pictures and movies) for the molecular coordinates that are produced by my simulation code. I am looking for visualization solutions for 1D, 2D...

I have been learning kittel's solid physics, But find it hard to have a firm grab of what a reciprocal lattice is like and can't understand it's relationship with e original lattice.. Is there a picture that draws a lattice n its reciprocal lattice into e same picture? so that i can visualize...

I am trying to do a computer visualization of a surface in complex dimensions 2. I choose simple quintic equation: z^5_1 + z^5_2 = 1 I also implemented algorithm for producing plots of 3D surfaces that are defined with algebraic equations. It is called Marching Cubes and it simply checks how...

Hello, I have a working monte carlo model of a system of cobalt nanoparticles. I am looking for a way to visualize their locations, as output from the model in the form of files with (x,y) or (x,y,z) coordinates. I also need to shown on the same image the vectors showing their magnetic moments...

http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html#qm This site contains applets on "visualsing" osciallatory motion, vector fields, electro- and magnetostatics, electrodynamics, and simple examples of quantum mechanical potentials. I'm sure that this site has been mentioned before in some post or...

This guy has made a nice series of demonstrative applets with Java. I was wondering what I'd need with Python to do the same thing.

I don't know where to put this but this seems to be the most logical home for my question. Which is, if you are interested in creating professional level diagrams and figures that demonstrate concepts and ideas visually (say for example, a problem in statics), what is used? Free programs...

Gents, What programs are most successfull for visualization physical processess?

Are there any visualization animations of the size of an individual atom, not in respect to the nucleus, just an atom? I saw an animation where I was zooming into a cell, but is there one for an atom. www.cellsalive.com That's the cell animation one, click on how big.

I'd like to head about how people visualizes a cotangent vector, ie a differential form. I like to use surfaces of f(x)=cte.

I'm trying to understand the mechanics of time dilation. Mabye some of the SR/GR Gurus can help me with this one :-p So an often used example that helps to visualize time dilation is a light click. A person moving in a vehicle WITH the light click just sees the light moving up and down...

Hi, I'm having trouble visualizing the way to calculate magnetic flux inside a wire and I was hoping someone here could help me. \Phi_B = \oint B \cdot dA Inside a wire, using ampere's law, I got: B = \frac{\mu_0 i}{2\pi}\frac{r}{R^2} And that's where I get stuck...