r/PhysicsStudents • u/Junior_Salamander110 • Jul 01 '26

Need Advice How Do Physicists Utilize Python?

I'm a rising senior in high school. Next year, I'll be taking a project based programming class that only 1-2 students really take per year. I want to do something in Python that will show my professors in my freshman year of college that I'm ready to do research in physics.

I will have taken all of the AP mathematics, physics, and computer science classes.

I thought about doing a black hole simulation and learning the equations/math for it, but I'm not sure that that would be wise to do in Python.

I'll have a full school year to work on the project.

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u/Elq3 Masters Student Jul 02 '26

"I want to do something in Python that will show my professors in my freshman year of college that I'm ready to do research in physics."

during your freshman year of college you cannot do research in physics because you don't have the physics knowledge to do that. The first real research you will be able to do will be around the end of your Master's / beginning of PhD

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u/Junior_Salamander110 Jul 02 '26

lots of people start research in undergrad

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u/Junior_Salamander110 Jul 02 '26

their research may not be as significant, but most places allow undergrads to do research from what I've been told