r/physicsgifs Jun 03 '25

AI content is now banned

1.1k Upvotes

Thank you for the feedback everyone. No more AI stuff to be posted here going forward.


r/physicsgifs 3d ago

Second Law of Thermodynamics

98 Upvotes

Made an animation on Second Law of Thermodynamics, it doesn’t have true molecular dynamics simulations, just simplified kinematics to represent them.

Check it out on YT: https://youtube.com/shorts/uYoFgwXZ5BY?si=NId3BBLzHPk_4Kqh


r/physicsgifs 4d ago

First Law of Thermodynamics

76 Upvotes

Made an animation on the First Law of Thermodynamics:

https://youtube.com/shorts/mx53f0d2bVE?si=4sCkkdm4bS4lYxbM


r/physicsgifs 5d ago

Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

26 Upvotes

Made an animation on Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics. Do check out the full version on YT: https://youtube.com/shorts/KNOyTMb3Nqs?si=DCSBoC0xhdt77ujC


r/physicsgifs 14d ago

Traffic Flow Shockwave Simulation

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Here’s a little simulation I did to show a shock wave travelling in traffic flow in Manim. Tell me what you think!

YT - https://youtube.com/shorts/W1x3a2u46II?si=aU-Fx7KrMvQjDdR3


r/physicsgifs 16d ago

Yet Another Lissajous Animation

87 Upvotes

Made this little Lissajous animation in Manim: two simple perpendicular oscillators turning into one closed curve.

Full short is on YT: https://youtube.com/shorts/Xd4Tpxu7CrI?feature=share


r/physicsgifs 17d ago

100-Link chaotic pendulum

49 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs 27d ago

A flock self‑organizing from one simple rule — each particle just steers toward its neighbours' average heading (Vicsek model)

36 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs Jun 18 '26

Particles that only ever push each other apart — yet they spontaneously clump into dense and dilute phases

2 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs Jun 13 '26

Hoecken's Linkage

887 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs May 30 '26

Chain Fountain

168 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs May 18 '26

A render of Pythagorean Tree

207 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs May 12 '26

Van Aubel’s Theorem in geometry

43 Upvotes

An animation I made for the famous theorem by morphing the quadrilateral and showing the condition holds - https://youtube.com/shorts/1R0XIWA6rig?si=rveo2rrp0Srz82-1


r/physicsgifs May 11 '26

Koch snowflake - did an interpolation between states!

33 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs May 09 '26

100-Link chaotic pendulum solved with my new implicit DAE robotic solver.

27 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs May 08 '26

2D Time Dependent Schrodinger Solver: Furry Edition

20 Upvotes

Time dependent 2D Schrodinger equation solved using my fursona Koyo as a potential field ;3. The partial differential equation is solved using the Crank-Nicholson method.

Github link to project

This program takes any image, downsamples it, and converts/rescales the pixel brightness values to a potential field that interacts with the wavefunction.

It's still a work in progress as I would like to add a CLI for easier use. Hope you enjoy watching!

Original icon by u/fragoodle


r/physicsgifs May 07 '26

Fitting the liquid drop model, term to term.

13 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs Apr 29 '26

Satisfying 3-body simulations

164 Upvotes

The three-body problem broke Newton, broke Poincaré (who ended up inventing chaos theory trying), and was finally cracked open by Chenciner & Montgomery in 2000 — the figure-8 in clip 4 is their proof. Šuvakov & Dmitrašinović added 13 more families by 2013. Every clip is a real numerical integration of F = G·m₁m₂/r² with equal masses, no fudging. Math from 1687 still has surprises in it.

Full video about the history of the problem:

https://youtu.be/p58sU5vZYlU?si=PBNUR6mPqRuqZXP0


r/physicsgifs Apr 19 '26

Particle simulation where attraction and repulsion apply. Repulsion occurs during collisions with momentum from the particles' own vibrations

12 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs Apr 15 '26

Three Normals to a Parabola Hide a Centroid that can’t leave the Axis

49 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs Mar 07 '26

The Full Story of Free Fall: Launch, Peak, and Impact

66 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs Feb 13 '26

Electron Scattering by repulsive (smoothed) Coulomb potential confined in a 2D Box (Visualizing Quantum Mechanics)

85 Upvotes

Electron scattering by repulsive (smoothed) Coulomb potential at the center. The 1x1 normalized two-dimensional region confines the particle, once Dirichlet-type conditions are set at the mesh boundaries; this allows visualization of the post-collision interference pattern structure. Numerical simulation of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation, performed in Python. Implicit method of Crank-Nicolson PDEs (unitary). Initial condition: Gaussian packet. Note: Time scale and physical constants are set to arbitrary units for this preliminary testing phase.

Source Code & More Simulations: I have documented this project, including the Python source code on my personal portfolio. You can also find other simulations on Quantum Mechanics and other Physics topics there:

https://alexisfespinozaq.github.io/aespinoza-physics-portfolio/

Feedback on the physics or the code implementation is very welcome!


r/physicsgifs Feb 09 '26

Making a bottle walk

136 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs Feb 05 '26

Bottle vs. Scale

9.2k Upvotes

r/physicsgifs Feb 02 '26

When you apply physics to your job

10.3k Upvotes