Double pendulum, twice
Two pendulums separated by 0.001 rad at t=0, integrated with RK4 — watch them agree, then very much not.
// student · computational physics
Python, NumPy, and a lot of Runge–Kutta. I build small, honest simulations to see what the equations are actually doing.
01 / projects
Two pendulums separated by 0.001 rad at t=0, integrated with RK4 — watch them agree, then very much not.
The butterfly, live — with σ, ρ, β on sliders so you can push the system in and out of chaos yourself.
A per-pixel intensity field for two coherent point sources — drag the separation and watch the fringes reorganize.
03 / about
I'm a student who got hooked on physics the first time a simulation I wrote disagreed with my intuition — and the simulation was right. Since then most of my free time goes into modeling physical systems in Python: particle dynamics, orbital mechanics, whatever has equations I don't fully understand yet.
I compete in Science Olympiad (remote sensing, ecology, geology), and I'm currently working through pandas and statistics to get better at squeezing meaning out of messy data.
Next up: many-body simulations and a proper N-body gravity integrator with symplectic methods.