PHYS 4060 - Computational Physics

Course last offered 

 :   

Spring 2017/18

Instructor(s)

 :

PAN Ding

No. of credits

 :

3



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) / laboratory hour(s) per week: 3 / 3

 

Content

This course introduces the use of computer to solve problems and to simulate physical phenomena:

  • numerical solution of integration
  • ordinary differential equations, linear and non-linear equations
  • Fourier transforms
  • stochastic processes
  • Monte Carlo methods
  • partial differential equations

Visualization tools will be used to interpret results of the calculations.

 

Remarks

  • Prerequisite: COMP 1002
  • Corequisite: PHYS 3031