| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2:00pm-3:15pm | WF | Math & Science Center - N306 | Fereydoon Family. | SNT. | 4 | 3007 | TBA. |
January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010
Prerequisites: Physics 142 or 152, Computer Science 150 or 170, or consent of instructor.
Catalog Description: Offered as required. Prerequisite: Physics 142 or 152 and Computer Science 150 or 170, or consent of instructor. Computational techniques for solving equations as well as for simulating, analyzing, and graphically visualizing physical systems and processes. Projects will be selected from different areas of physics according to student interest and background.
Semester Details: In this seminar course, students will be taught some of the basic techniques of computational physics and will be assigned projects that will enable them to simulate, analyze, and graphically visualize physical systems and processes. Some of the topics that may be covered as part of the assigned projects include nonlinear dynamics and chaos, random walks and diffusion, percolation and critical phenomena, fractals, cellular automata, Monte Carlo techniques, and molecular dynamics.
Required Textbooks, Articles, and Resources
- An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods. ISBN: 978-0-614-07737-7.
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