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<h1 id="overview"><a class="header" href="#overview">Overview</a></h1>
<p>This free online book marks our commitment to make the theory and algorithms of physics-based simulations accessible to everyone.</p>
<h2 id="contributing"><a class="header" href="#contributing">Contributing</a></h2>
<p>If you are interested in contributing to editing and improving this book, please do it through a Github pull request on the <a href="https://github.com/phys-sim-book/mdbook-src">mdbook-src</a> repository <em>(not the HTML repository)</em>, or directly contact <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~minchenl/">Minchen Li</a> and <a href="https://www.math.ucla.edu/~cffjiang/">Chenfanfu Jiang</a>.</p>
<p>Depending on the nature of your contribution, you'll be listed as book co-authors or community contributors in future builds of the book.</p>
<h3 id="version-103-released-20263"><a class="header" href="#version-103-released-20263">Version 1.0.3 (Released 2026/3):</a></h3>
<h4 id="co-authors"><a class="header" href="#co-authors">Co-authors</a></h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~minchenl/">Minchen Li</a>, Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li><a href="https://www.math.ucla.edu/~cffjiang/">Chenfanfu Jiang</a>, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li><a href="https://roushelfy.github.io/">Zhaofeng Luo</a>, Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li><a href="https://dwxrycb123.github.io/">Wenxin Du</a>, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li><a href="https://changyu.io/">Chang Yu</a>, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li><a href="https://zzigak.github.io/">Žiga Kovačič</a>, Cornell University</li>
<li><a href="https://xpandora.github.io/">Tianyi Xie</a>, University of California, Los Angeles</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="community-contributors-github"><a class="header" href="#community-contributors-github">Community Contributors (Github)</a></h4>
<p>Minchen Li (<a href="https://github.com/liminchen">@liminchen</a>), Chenfanfu Jiang (<a href="https://github.com/cffjiang">@cffjiang</a>), Zhaoming Xie (<a href="https://github.com/zxie-bdai">@zxie-bdai</a>), Yuqi Meng (<a href="https://github.com/ARessegetesStery">@ARessegetesStery</a>), Zhaofeng Luo (<a href="https://github.com/Roushelfy">@Roushelfy</a>), Xiang Chen (<a href="https://github.com/xchen-cs">@xchen-cs</a>), Gábor Szabó (<a href="https://github.com/szabgab">@szabgab</a>), Zhenyi Wang (<a href="https://github.com/TempContainer">@TempContainer</a>), Wenxin Du (<a href="https://github.com/dwxrycb123">dwxrycb123</a>), Chang Yu (<a href="https://github.com/g1n0st">@g1n0st</a>), Tianyi Xie (<a href="https://github.com/XPandora">@XPandora</a>), Žiga Kovačič (<a href="https://github.com/zzigak">@zzigak</a>), Steven Xu (<a href="https://github.com/RWBY-Aloupeep">@RWBY-Aloupeep</a>)</p>
<h3 id="bibtex"><a class="header" href="#bibtex">BibTeX</a></h3>
<pre><code>@book{li2026physics,
  title   = {Physics-Based Simulation},
  author  = {Minchen Li and Chenfanfu Jiang and Zhaofeng Luo and Wenxin Du and Chang Yu and {\v{Z}}iga Kova{\v{c}}i{\v{c}} and Tianyi Xie},
  year    = {2026},
  month   = Mar,
  version = {1.0.3},
  url     = {https://phys-sim-book.github.io/}
}
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