The first volume of Matter & Interactions is now available in a Spanish translation:

Materia e Interacciones I: Mecánica moderna. R. Chabay and B. Sherwood (2015).  México, Trillas.

We extend our deepest thanks to all of the physicists, from four different countries, who translated the book.

La traducción del volumen I de Materia e Interacciones estuvo a cargo de un gran equipo de profesores de Física de diferentes países de habla hispana, quienes han trabajado voluntariamente.  El esfuerzo estuvo coordinado por:

Dr. Genaro Zavala Enríquez, Profesor Investigador y Director del Departamento de Física del Tecnológico de Monterrey en Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

Los profesores que participaron en la traducción fueron:

Dr. Gonzalo Fuster Roa, Académico del Departamento de Física de la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Valpariso, Chile

Dra. Valeria del Campo, Investigadora del Departamento de Física de la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Valpariso, Chile

Dra. Karen Milena, Profesora Asociada del Departamento de Física de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Bogotá D.C., Colombia

Dr. Víctor Rodríguez López, Profesor e Investigador de la Escuela de las Ciencias y Tecnología de la Universidad Metropolitana en San Juan, Puerto Rico

Dr. Jaime Arturo Vélez Pardo, Profesor del Instituto de Física de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad de Antioquia en Medellín, Colombia

Dr. Hugo Alarcón Opazo, Director de la Comunidad de Investigación en Docencia para Ingeniería y Ciencias de la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Valpariso, Chile

Profesor Viktor Slüsarenko Stachniw, Académico del Departamento de Física de la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Valpariso, Chile

A translation of the second volume, Electric & Magnetic Interactions, is in progress.

There are now a number of upper-level computational physics books that use Python and  VPython.  These include:

A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science, Rubin H. Landau, Manual J. Paez, Cristian Bordeianu (2011), Princeton.

Computational Physics with Python, Mark Newman (2012), Createspace.

An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Robert H. Swendsen (2012), Oxford.

Equilibrium Statistical Physics With Computer Simulations in Python, Leonard M. Sander (2013), Createspace.

Computational Modeling and Visualization of Physical Systems with Python,  Jay Wang (2016), Wiley.

We are very pleased to announce that Aaron Titus is joining us in the further development of Matter & Interactions. He will be a co-author in future editions of the M&I textbook. Aaron was one of the first adopters of M&I, and of VPython.

Aaron is the former chair of the Department of Physics at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina. He helped create the physics department and helped lead its rapid growth. He and Larry Martin created the WebAssign computer homework system. He has served on the board of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is well-known in AAPT circles, among college and high school teachers alike. He gives frequent talks and workshops, many of which feature M&I and VPython. Aaron has used many kinds of software in his educational endeavors. He recently developed and taught a course for non-science majors on “Physics  for Video Games” in which students develop games using VPython.  He is a co-author (with Joe Heafner) of the Solutions Manual and Student Solutions Manual for the 4th edition of M&I.

Ruth and Bruce

A review of Matter & Interactions by Rhett Allain appeared in Wired in 2014.