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((For|actual toys|model figure|action figure))
((Short description|Deliberately simplistic scientific model))
((More references|date=December 2009))
In the [[scientific modeling|modeling]] of [[physics]], a '''toy model''' is a deliberately simplistic model with many details removed so that it can be used to explain a mechanism concisely. It is also useful in a description of the fuller model.

* '''In "toy" mathematical models''',((clarify|is this in mathematics in general, or mathematical physics?|date=December 2016)) this is usually done by reducing or extending the number of dimensions or reducing the number of fields/variables or restricting them to a particular symmetric form. 
* '''In Macroeconomics modelling''', are a class of models, some may be only loosely based on theory, others more explicitly so. But they have the same purpose. They allow for a quick first pass at some question, and present the essence of the answer from a more complicated model or from a class of models. For the researcher, they may come before writing a more elaborate model, or after, once the elaborate model has been worked out. Blanchard list of examples includes IS–LM model, the [[Mundell–Fleming model]], the RBC model, and the New Keynesian model.<ref>3.	BLANCHARD O., 2018- '''On the future of macroeconomic models''', ''Oxford Review of Economic Policy'', Volume 34, Numbers 1–2, 2018, p.p.52-53.</ref> 
* '''In "toy" physical descriptions''', an analogous example of an everyday mechanism is often used for illustration.

The phrase '''"tinker-toy model"''' is also used,((fact|date=December 2016)) in reference to the popular [[Tinkertoy]]s used for children's [[constructivist learning]].

==Examples==
Examples of toy models in physics include:

* the [[Ising model]] as a toy model for [[ferromagnetism]], or [[lattice model (physics)|lattice models]] more generally. It is the simplest model that allows for [[Euclidean Field Theory|Euclidean]] [[Quantum Field Theory]] in [[statistical physics]]<ref>((Cite book|last1=Hartmann|first1=Alexander K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6zdd5N8DCmEC&q=%22toy+model%22++ferromagnetism&pg=PA104|title=Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems: Basics, Algorithms and Statistical Mechanics|last2=Weigt|first2=Martin|date=2006-05-12|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3-527-60686-3|pages=104|language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web|title=Ising model|url=http://nlab-pages.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/nlab/show/Ising+model|access-date=2022-01-12|website=nlab-pages.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com|language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web|title=The Ising Model|url=https://stanford.edu/~jeffjar/statmech/intro4.html|access-date=2022-01-12|website=stanford.edu))</ref>
* [[orbital mechanics]] as described by assuming that Earth is attached to the Sun by an elastic band;
* [[Hawking radiation]] around a [[black hole]] described as conventional radiation from a fictitious membrane at radius [[r=2M]] (the black hole [[membrane paradigm]]);
* [[frame-dragging]] around a rotating star considered as the effect of space being a conventional viscous fluid.
*the [[Lambda-CDM model|concordance model]] of cosmology, in which general relativistic effects of structure formation are not taken into account.<ref>((Cite journal|last1=Buchert|first1=T.|last2=Carfora|first2=M.|last3=Ellis|first3=G. F. R.|last4=Kolb|first4=E. W.|last5=MacCallum|first5=M. A. H.|last6=Ostrowski|first6=J. J.|last7=Räsänen|first7=S.|last8=Roukema|first8=B. F.|last9=Andersson|first9=L.|last10=Coley|first10=A. A.|last11=Wiltshire|first11=D. L.|date=2015-11-05|title=Is there proof that backreaction of inhomogeneities is irrelevant in cosmology?|journal=Classical and Quantum Gravity|volume=32|issue=21|pages=215021|doi=10.1088/0264-9381/32/21/215021|arxiv=1505.07800|bibcode=2015CQGra..32u5021B|issn=0264-9381|hdl=10138/310154|s2cid=51693570|hdl-access=free))</ref>
* the [[Spekkens toy model|Spekkens model]], a [[hidden-variable theory]].
* the [[primon gas]], which illustrates some connections between [[number theory]] and physics.

==See also==
* ((annotated link|Physical model))
* ((annotated link|Spherical cow))
* ((annotated link|Toy problem))
* ((annotated link|Toy theorem))

==References==
((Reflist))

((DEFAULTSORT:Toy Model))
[[Category:Mathematical terminology]]
[[Category:Theoretical physics]]

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