Web VPython Road Test

Rhett Allain
10 min readMar 24, 2024

Let’s suppose that you are in a physics course that includes some type of numerical calculations. Maybe that course uses python — but not just any python, it uses Web VPython. If that’s the case, you will need to know a certain set of skills. OK, don’t worry. I’m going to go over the very basic stuff you need to know. It’s like a road test except for python and not a car.

Python vs. Web VPython

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Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.