Jupyter Notebook scripts for the numerical simulations of the perihelion motion of Mercury caused by General Relativity.
This folder contains three scripts:
base_solution.ipynb: The basic visualization of Mercury orbiting the Sun. This program can be used to observe the effects of 1/r^3 and 1/r^4 forces, as well the effects of numerical errors.template.ipynb: A template file which can be handed to students. The general concepts of programming in python are provided. The students have to write the creation of VPython objects as well as the computation of forces.perihelion.ipynb: An extension ofbase_solution.ipynb. In addition to the visualization, this file also provides the numerical extraction of the perihelion motion.
Individual Jupyter Notebook cells can be executed by pressing shift+enter.