Open Source Physics, or OSP, is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Davidson College, whose mission is to spread the use of open source code libraries that take care of a lot of the heavy lifting for physics: drawing and plotting, differential equation solvers, exporting to animated GIFs and movies, etc., tools, and compiled simulations for physics and other numerical simulations .
The OSP collection provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling.
The core library is in the Java programming language and licensed with GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) licenses.
The site now serves over 10,000 visitors per month.
In 2011, the project received an important award, the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education, or SPORE from Science magazine[5][6] In 2015, the project received the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education [1] and Excellence Award Multimedia Physics Teaching and Learning Conference MPTL20 [2] In 2020, the project received the Excellence in Physics Education Award from the American Physical Society [3]