University Catalog Physics 711/811. Computational Physics,
Lecture 3 hours, 3 credits.
Content: Computational methods, tool and techniques for problem solving in physics.
Goals: This course has the task of both giving a solid treatment of basic methods, tools, and techniques of computational physics used in modern physics, and developing skills for practical solving computational problems in physics.
Instructor: Dr. Alexander Godunov, OCNPS 0219, Phone: 683-5805,
agodunov#odu.edu
Course Web page www.odu.edu/~agodunov/teaching/phys811_09
Classes:Tuesday, Thursday 13:30-14:45, Oceanography & Physics, 303
Office hours: Tuesday 11:30 - 12:30 (office), 16:00 - 17:00 (the Physics Learning Center); Thursday 11:30 - 12:30 (office), and by appointment
Schedule
1, 3 September 2009 (Week 1). Introduction to computational physics. Tools of computational physics
8, 10 September 2009 (Week 2). Machine precision and errors. C++ (short reference).
15, 17 September 2009 (Week 3). Solution of non-linear equations. Interpolation.
22, 24 September 2009 (Week 4). Interpolation (cont), Numerical differentiation.
29 Sep, 1 Oct 2009 (Week 5). Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) - Initial value problem.
6, 8 October 2009 (Week 6). Applications to Classical Mechanics. Boundary value problem
15 October 2009 (Week 7). ODE: Applications to Quantum Mechanics.
20, 22 October 2009 (Week 8). Numerical Integration.
27, 29 October 2009 (Week 9). Monte Carlo Simulation.
3, 5 November 2009 (Week 10). Monte Carlo Simulation (more).
10, 12 November 2009 (Week 11). Molecular Dynamic simulation.
17, 19 November 2009 (Week 12). Chaos. Data fitting.
24 November 2009 (Week 13). Systems of Linear Equations and applications.
30 Nov, 4 Dec. 2009 (Week 14). Partial Differential Equations (PDE).
8, 10 December 2009 (Week 15). Scientific software. Visualization. HPC.
Announcements
On December 8th at 15:00 prof. De Paor will be giving a lecture on computer
animation. Place - The conference room. Note that we meet at unusual time.
Countdowns
