Here is a little challenge for you. You are free do try solving it yourself, or write a Python program to do it. And here it is: Suppose we you have a dodecahedron and and ant is moving over the surface of the dodecahedron. But it is a very idiosyncratic…

As a follow-up to my last article about convex hulls, we will use that skill to visualize the famous platonic solids. Platonic Solids are a unique set of three-dimensional shapes with specific properties that have fascinated mathematicians and scientists for centuries. Each face, edge, and angle within these figures is…

A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding Convex Hulls in Python’s SciPy — Recently, I had the problem to find the convex hull of a given set of points. So I made closer contact with Python’s scipy’s spatial package. The concept of a convex hull refers to the smallest convex set that contains all the points in a given set. In simpler terms…

Stars are colossal spheres of hot gas that undergo nuclear fusion in their cores. To understand the properties and behaviors of stars, astronomers and astrophysicists often apply various models to study their structure. …

A key skill for any Django developer — Django is well-known for its built-in form handling capabilities, making it easier for developers to manage and render form data. However, sometimes the default form widgets don’t meet specific requirements. This article explores how to create custom form widgets in Django, ensuring you can match every design and functional need…

Event-Based ODE-Solving in Python — In today’s article, we’ll cover a counterintuitive, seemingly paradoxical physical effect, how to use event-triggered termination of ordinary differential equation solving on Python, and all along some practice in Lagrangian mechanics. The effect is this: Consider an object falling freely from height L. When it hits the ground, it has…

And how to use them in Python — Those were the days when an astronomer could still make substantial contributions to mathematics! Bessel functions, first introduced by the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel in the early 19th century, are mathematical functions that arise in various areas of science, engineering, and mathematics. They were and have since become fundamental tools…

Python Meets Abstract Algebra — At school, and also often as undergraduates at college, we learn that polynomials are things of the form

In gravitational physics as well as electrodynamics, there is a problem which arises all too often. This is called Coulomb’s problem. In simple words, it is this: suppose you have some distribution of matter in space, like stars in a galaxy or the galaxies in a supercluster, what is corresponding…