PHYS 61 -- Fall 1999

INTRODUCTIONS TO NUMERICAL TECHINIQUES IN PHYSICS

Prof. Jianping Lu email: jpl@physics.unc.edu

TA Calin Buia email: buia@physics.unc.edu
|HOMEWORK |REFERENCES| |Lab Notes|

Syllabus

• Overview
• Functions and Roots
• Linear Algebra, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
• Interpolation and Curve Fitting
• Numerical Derivatives and Integrals
• Ordinary Differential Equations
• Partial Differential Equations
• Fourier Analysis
• Monte Carlo Methods

Related topics

• Basic Unix
• Using Mathematica
• Internet and World Wide Web (WWW)
• C and C++ Programming
• Computer Graphics
• Fractals, Chaos, and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

References

• Curtis F. Gerald & Patrick O. Wheatley -- Applied Numerical Analysis
• Stephen Wolfram -- Mathematica
• Walfgang Kinzel & George Reents -- Physics by Computer
• Brian Kerninghan -- The C Programming Language
• William H. Press et al. -- Numerical Recipes
• Marvin L. De Jong -- Introduction to Computational Physics
• Steven E. Koonin -- Computational Physics
• William J. Thompson -- Computing for scientists and engineers
• Pauk DeVires -- A First Course in Computational Physics
• Benoit B. Mandelbrot -- The Fractal Geometry of Nature

Lab sessions

• Tue. 2:00-4:00pm, Wed 2:00-4:00pm, Phillips 245.
• Everyone must sign up a lab session.
• Office hours are the same as lab sessions.

Homework, projects, and grade

• Grade is based on homework (40%), projects (30%), and final exam (30%).
• All Mathematica homework should be submitted in paper.
• All C programs should be emailed to jpl@physics.unc.edu and buia@physics.unc.edu.