r/learnphysics

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Built a JEE Physics app after 10 years of classroom teaching — not trying to sell anything, just sharing what I made

I taught JEE Physics for about 10 years — FIITJEE Chennai, then Modulus Hyderabad. Left institutional teaching to build something on my own terms.

The result is an app called Physics with Rakesh. One subject, one teacher, built carefully.

What it has:

Concept videos and MCQ practice — single correct, multiple correct, integer type

Questions split by difficulty: concept level, Mains level, Advanced level

Buoyancy concept is free, do test it to get a feel of the app.

It's not trying to compete with the big platforms. It's just Physics, done properly, by someone who's spent a long time teaching it in classrooms.

If big-platform teaching feels a bit assembly-line, this might be worth trying. The free concept is there.

Happy to answer Physics questions or anything about the app.

Play store app Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rakeshmanusani.physics_with_rakesh

u/rakeshm1234 — 1 day ago

Where do I start in physics?

This year physics classes started at my school (8th grade) and I really enjoyed them. I want to learn more during the summer, but physics is a really wide subject so I don't know where to start. Does someone have any advice for me?

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u/RareRatio6519 — 2 days ago
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Inverted Pendulum Control Benchmark: PID vs. LQR vs. MPC

A physics simulation of an inverted pendulum on a cart that evaluates three distinct control architectures—PID, LQR and MPC — on their ability to maintain equilibrium and recover from significant external disturbances.

For more videos click instagram.com/craftsandengineering, or tiktok.com/@zoomzoombee

For code click https://github.com/zombimann/Mathematical-video-animations-and-visualization/blob/main/The_Great_Pendulum_Balance_Off_PID_vs_LQR_vs_MPC.ipynb

u/Fluffy-Selection2940 — 3 days ago
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The Higgs Mechanism - Inspired by Feynman Diagrams

The Higgs Mechanism, electroweak symmetry breaking, and key particle physics concepts inspired by Feynman Diagrams.

Concepts visualized are:

The Higgs Field
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Gluon Fusion
Higgs Decay to Photons (H → ̳̳)
The Golden Channel (H → ZZ → 4ℓ)
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

For more animations click www.instagram.com/craftsandengineering

For code and more click https://github.com/zombimann/Mathematical-video-animations-and-visualization/blob/main/Quantum_Physics_Higgs_Mechanism_Feynman_Diagrams.ipynb

Music attribution: Quantum - PHNKR PHONK & Donovan on TikTok music library

u/Fluffy-Selection2940 — 4 days ago
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I just released a complete motion-first trilogy that unifies classical physics with a full ontology of reality (VXXX + VXEF + VXOF)

What if the reason a stone falls and a balloon rises is the same reason we can perceive, remember, and share reality at all?

Not poetry. Not speculation.

A complete, finished trilogy just dropped that quietly reorganises everything we thought we knew about motion, existence, and experience.

ValerieX Trilogy — Motion is not something that happens in the world.

The world is something that happens in motion.

*VXXX (ValerieX Framework): The technical foundation. A symmetry-based reorganisation of classical buoyancy and added-mass into one clean density-state law (a = gχ). Same equations, radically clearer structure.

*VXEF (ValerieX Environmental Framework): How environments open/close pathways, condition systems, test coherence, and make life possible.

*VXOF (ValerieX Ontology Framework): The philosophical companion. From being → realisation → perception → experience → memory → shared reality, meaning, consciousness, ethics, and suffering.

Three interlocking pieces. One unified motion-first vision of reality.

This isn’t another grand theory that replaces everything.

It’s a cleaner lens that lets you see everything more clearly.

For physicists. For philosophers. For anyone who ever wondered why anything moves at all.

The stack is complete. It may change how you see the world around you.

Read the full trilogy here, plus 4 x core supporting volumes →

*VXXX (core framework) - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20113297

*VXEF (environmental framework) - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20176036

*VXOF (ontological framework) -

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20191289

*VXXX I-IV (VXXX supporting papers)

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20022140

"For the benefit of all who seek truth.”

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u/WizardofPhysics888 — 5 days ago
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Visualization of the Feynman Path Integral and Principle of Stationary action

u/Fluffy-Selection2940 — 5 days ago
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i need helppppp Schrödinger Wave Equation !!!

if anyone can help me understand all this please help me

i really need help with this tomorrow is my engineering exam !!!

i know the basics but going through all this is overwhelming can anyone help me out with following so that tomorrow i can score well -

Wave-particle duality ( i know this ), Matter waves,

Wave function and basic postulates, Time dependent and time

independent Schrodinger‟s Wave Equation, Physical interpretation of

wave function and its properties, Applications of the Schrodinger‟s

Equation: Particle in one dimensional and three dimensional boxes.

(and here are things that are i guess sub parts like eigen values , pgysical interpretation of wave function , normalization , orthogonalization , )

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u/MuchYoung374 — 3 days ago
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Why Newton's 3rd Law is Incomplete

Newton's 3rd Law is one of the first things you learn in physics. But what if it's not actually a law it's a consequence of something much deeper?
In this video we derive Newton's 3rd Law from scratch using momentum conservation, then ask the question nobody asks in school: where does momentum conservation even come from?
The answer takes us to Emmy Noether's theorem one of the most profound results in all of physics and reveals that every conservation law you've ever learned is secretly a symmetry of the universe in disguise.
But here's the thing. Noether's theorem is only as strong as the symmetries it assumes. And the universe doesn't always cooperate.
What we cover:

Deriving Newton's 3rd Law from momentum conservation
Why momentum is conserved the real reason
Noether's theorem: symmetry to conservation law
Translational, rotational and time translation symmetry
Why Newton's 1st Law and Noether's theorem have the exact same problem
Where time translation symmetry actually breaks and what that means for energy conservation globally

This is the rabbit hole behind the law your textbook treats as obvious.

u/soggytime07 — 7 days ago

I find the mathematical aspect of learning physics really tedious

Hey! I just wanted to ask if anyone here could relate or maybe recommend me some books or anything else to help me. Basically, I am really fascinated by physics and I would love to learn more about it, but the mathematical aspect is really holding me back. I started the Giancoli physics book and while the first few chapters very really doable, it quickly got really difficult. The book is full of pages that are sprinkled with equations and sometimes difficult conceptions involving differential equations and stuff like that. I thought that maybe someone could recommend a book that covers most concepts in physics while having less of a focus on the mathematical aspect and that is a little bit less math-heavy.

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u/Keni9089 — 6 days ago

intuitively learn the laws of gravity, time dilation, and programming in my free simulator :)

I'm Dave :) I've been here a couple times before, showcasing my passion project Stella Nova, built in pure Rust using wgpu for rendering. It's a colony management simulator set in a procedurally generated solar system where every object follows real N-body gravitational physics. The custom engine (WarpCore) handles thousands of entities stably at once and ships under 500MB!

Current functional demo systems:

Real Hohmann transfer planning for interplanetary travel
Modular station construction
Citizen AI with state machine behavior (think RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress)
Time dilation control, play with the laws of relativity- Secret programming menu (please ask)

The playable demo just went live on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4703440/Stella_Nova_Demo/

Happy to answer any architecture or other questions about the project!!

u/DavesGames123 — 6 days ago

Applied Linear Algebra: Determinants and an Approach to Understanding Quantum Mechanics

This post is not about the proof-oriented linear algebra taught in mathematics departments.

Instead, it is a resource on determinants in linear algebra that helps with the algebraic approach to quantum mechanics.

u/TROSE9025 — 8 days ago
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Quantum Electrodynamics visualization using Feynman Diagrams

Quantum Physics Series

Video 1 of 6: Quantum Electrodynamics visualization using Feynman Diagrams

Author: Mugambi Ndwiga
In: www.instagram.com/craftsandengineering

This animation visualizes the fundamental interactions of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) using Feynman diagram conventions. QED is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics, describing how light and matter interact.

Visualized Phenomena

The animation cycles through six key physical processes:

  1. Compton Scattering: A photon hits an electron, resulting in an energy shift and change in direction.
  2. Electron-Positron Annihilation: An electron and its antiparticle (positron) collide to produce high-energy photons ().
  3. Pair Production: A high-energy photon interacts with the electric field of an atomic nucleus to create an electron-positron pair.
  4. Bremsstrahlung (Braking Radiation): A charged particle (electron) is deflected by a nucleus and radiates energy as a photon.
  5. Møller Scattering: The interaction and repulsion between two electrons via the exchange of a virtual photon.
  6. Vacuum Polarization: A process where a photon temporarily fluctuates into a virtual electron-positron pair, affecting the vacuum's permittivity.

For code and more click Mathematical-video-animations-and-visualization/QED_Feynman_Diagrams_Animations.ipynb at main · zombimann/Mathematical-video-animations-and-visualization

u/Fluffy-Selection2940 — 10 days ago

how would you approach self teaching maths/physics from complete scratch?

hi, i’m 21F currently finishing a bachelor of nursing, but lately i’ve been feeling sad about how much knowledge i’ve lost from not engaging with science anymore outside of my degree. i used to love chemistry and biology in high school, but after ~3 years of barely touching them i feel like i’ve forgotten almost everything.

my uni doesn’t really let us take electives with this course, so i’ve been thinking about self teaching on the side because there’s still so much i want to learn. i genuinely miss learning and want to keep my brain functioning instead of letting it rot lmao.

the issue is that i’d basically be starting from complete scratch again, especially with maths and physics. i barely remember anything beyond very basic concepts, so it’s a little intimidating trying to figure out where to even begin.

if there are any physicists/math people/stem nerds here, do you have a roadmap for what order i should learn things in or the best methods/resources for self teaching? any advice or encouragement would genuinely help.

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u/ischemariii — 9 days ago

Hi
Excited to be able to announce that QO is almost ready to leave Early Access!! Just now I hit the button for our first actual large patch that covers more than a year of work (lots of analytics, I've been tracking where ppl were getting stuck). Thank you a ton for your support, this game has seen a lot of love from this community. Game is almost done.

If you are interested in a highly intuitive visual method that faithfully describes all universal quantum computing and physics behind, this is for you. I am the Dev behind Quantum Odyssey (AMA! I love taking qs) - worked on it for about 10 years (3.5 in phd), the goal was to make a super immersive space for anyone to learn quantum computing through zachlike (open-ended) logic puzzles and compete on leaderboards and lots of community made content on finding the most optimal quantum algorithms. The game has a unique set of visuals (that was actually my PhD research) capable to represent any sort of quantum dynamics for any number of qubits and this is pretty much what makes it now possible for anybody 12yo+ to actually learn quantum logic without having to worry at all about the mathematics behind.

This is a game super different than what you'd normally expect in a programming/ logic puzzle game, so try it with an open mind.

Stuff covered

  • Boolean Logic – bits, operators (NAND, OR, XOR, AND…), and classical arithmetic (adders). Learn how these can combine to build anything classical. You will learn to port these to a quantum computer.
  • Quantum Logic – qubits, the math behind them (linear algebra, SU(2), complex numbers), all Turing-complete gates (beyond Clifford set), and make tensors to evolve systems. Freely combine or create your own gates to build anything you can imagine using polar or complex numbers.
  • Quantum Phenomena – storing and retrieving information in the X, Y, Z bases; superposition (pure and mixed states), interference, entanglement, the no-cloning rule, reversibility, and how the measurement basis changes what you see.
  • Core Quantum Tricks – phase kickback, amplitude amplification, storing information in phase and retrieving it through interference, build custom gates and tensors, and define any entanglement scenario. (Control logic is handled separately from other gates.)
  • Famous Quantum Algorithms – explore Deutsch–Jozsa, Grover’s search, quantum Fourier transforms, Bernstein–Vazirani, and more.
  • Build & See Quantum Algorithms in Action – instead of just writing/ reading equations, make & watch algorithms unfold step by step so they become clear, visual, and unforgettable. Quantum Odyssey is built to grow into a full universal quantum computing learning platform. If a universal quantum computer can do it, we aim to bring it into the game.

Streams to watch:

khan academy style tutorials on qm/qc: https://www.youtube.com/@MackAttackx

Physics teacher wholesome stream with over 500hs in https://www.twitch.tv/beardhero

u/QuantumOdysseyGame — 13 days ago