LECTURES

Chapter 15: Complexity

• Lecture 41: May 1
  • Neural networks and associative memory
• Lecture 40: April 28
  • Forest fire automaton model
• Lecture 39: April 26
  • Two-dimensional sandpile model
• Lecture 38: April 24
  • The Gutenberg-Richter Law
  • One-dimensional sandpile automaton
• Lecture 37: April 21
  • Lattice Gas Model of Fluid Flow
• Lecture 36: April 19
  • Discussion of Game of Life as a Universal Computing Machine
• Lecture 35: April 17
  • Game of Life (continued)
• Lecture 34: April 14
  • Conway's Game of Life
• Lecture 33: April 12
  • One-dimensional Boolean cellular automaton

Chapter 18: Quantum Systems

• Lecture 32: April 10
  • Path Integral Quantum Monte Carlo (continued)
• Lecture 31: April 7
  • Random Walk Quantum Monte Carlo (continued)
• Lecture 30: April 5
  • Path Integral Quantum Monte Carlo
• Lecture 29: April 3
  • Random Walk Quantum Monte Carlo
• Lecture 28: March 31
  • Euler-Cromer and root-finding algorithm in Eigen.java
• Lecture 27: March 29
  • Bound state solutions by deterministic integration

Chapter 17: Monte Carlo Simulation of the Canonical Ensemble

• Lecture 26: March 27
  • Ising phase transition and finite size scaling
• Lecture 25: March 24
  • Discussion of autocorrelation algorithm
  • Ising model phase transition and critical slowing down
• Lecture 24: March 22
  • Autocorrelations in the 2-D Ising model simulation
• Lecture 23: March 20
  • Counting States: Energy versus Entropy
• Lecture 22: March 17
  • Metropolis simulation of the 2-D Ising Model

Chapter 16: The Microcanonical Ensemble

• Lecture 21: March 13
  • Peierls' Droplet Argument in 1-D and 2-D
• Lecture 20: March 3
  • Creutz's Demon Algorithm
• Lecture 19: March 1
  • The 1-D Ising Model
• Lecture 18: February 28
  • One-dimensional classical ideal gas

Chapter 12: Random Walks

• Lecture 17: February 25
  • Reptation method for enriching a polymer sample
• Lecture 16: February 23
  • Applications of Random Walks to Polymers
• Lecture 15: February 21
  • Persistent Random Walk: Chromatograph
  • Self-Avoiding Random Walk in 2 Dimensions
• Lecture 14: February 18
  • Modified Random Walks: A Lattice Gas
• Lecture 13: February 16
  • Catching up!
• Lecture 12: February 14
  • A random walk in two dimensions

Chapter 11: Numerical Integration and Monte Carlo Methods

• Lecture 11: February 11
  • Overview of Java graphics programming
• Lecture 10: February 9
  • Catching up!
• Lecture 9: February 7
  • Importance sampling
  • Metropolis Monte Carlo Algorithm
• Lecture 8: February 4
  • Non-uniform Probabilities
  • Animating the Neutron Transport Simulation
• Lecture 7: February 2
  • Java vs. Fortran
  • Multidimensional Quadrature
  • Monte Carlo Quadrature and Error Analysis
• Lecture 6: January 31
  • Integration and Quadrature
  • Programming the Rectangular Approximation

Chapter 7: Random Processes

• Lecture 5: January 28
  • Primitive types and objects in Java
• Lecture 4: January 26
  • Random Walks
• Lecture 3: January 24
  • Nuclear Decay
  • Poisson Distribution in Nuclear Decay
• Lecture 2: January 21
  • Order to disorder
  • Brief overview of Java concepts
  • Implementing PROGRAM box in Java
• Lecture 1: January 19
  • How to run Java programs
  • Deterministic and random processes

Fall 1999 Lectures

Chapter 9: Normal Modes and Waves. The Fast Fourier Transform

• Lecture 35: November 22
  • The Fast Fourier Transform

Chapter 6: The Chaotic Motion of Dynamical Systems

• Lecture 34: November 19
  • KAM Theorem, Hamiltonian Chaos, and the Standard Map - Catching up
• Lecture 33: November 17
  • Hamiltonian Chaos: The Standard Map
• Lecture 32: November 15
  • Strange Attractors
• Lecture 31: November 12
  • Lyapunov Exponents and Sensitivity to Initial Conditions
  • The Forced Damped Pendulum
• Lecture 30: November 10
  • Universality in Chaos
• Lecture 29: November 8
  • The Deterministic Clockwork Universe
  • Chaotic behavior in the Logistic Map
• Lecture 28: November 5
  • Bifurcation Diagram for the Logistic Map
• Lecture 27: November 3
  • The Logistic Map

Chapter 5: Simple Linear and Nonlinear Systems

• Lecture 26: November 1
  • Properties of the Simple Nonlinear Pendulum
  • Dissipative Systems and Response to External Forces
• Lecture 25: October 29
  • The Simple Nonlinear Pendulum

Chapter 4: The Two-Body Problem

• Lecture 24: October 27
  • Two-Body Scattering Program
  • Scattering Angle and Deflection Angle
  • Differential and Total Cross Sections
• Lecture 23: October 25
  • Two-Body Scattering
  • Orbiting
  • The Lennard-Jones Potential
• Lecture 22: October 22
  • Reading the asteroid elements data file
• Lecture 21: October 20
  • Mini Solar System simulation - catching up
• Lecture 20: October 18
  • Mini Solar System simulation - catching up
• Lecture 19: October 13
  • Resonances and the Asteroid Belt
• Lecture 18: October 11
  • Mini Solar System simulation - catching up
• Lecture 17: October 8
  • A Mini Solar System
  • Asteroids
• Lecture 16: October 6
  • Integrable Hamiltonian Systems
  • The Three-Body Problem is Not Integrable
• Lecture 15: October 4
  • Simulation of a Planetary Orbit
  • Java Animation

Chapter 3: The Motion of Falling Objects

• Lecture 14: October 1.
  • Catching up.
• Lecture 13: September 29
  • Java arrays and the Euler-Richardson algorithm
  • A projectile motion animation
• Lecture 12: September 27
  • Plotting the sine function
  • Callback methods
• Lecture 11: September 24
  • Drag Forces
  • FreeFallGraph applet
• Lecture 10: September 22
  • Bug Hunting
  • Plots using comphys.graphics classes
• Lecture 9: September 21
  • Exploiting Java classes
  • A nested class version of the free-fall program
• Lecture 8: September 17
  • Catching up!
• Lecture 7: September 15
  • Newton, Gravity, and Air Resistance
  • Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Program for One-dimensional Motion

Chapter 2: The Coffee Cooling Problem

• Lecture 6: September 13
  • Simple Graphical User Interface (GUI) using Java
• Lecture 5: September 10
  • To switch or not to switch?
  • Simple plots using Java
• Lecture 4: September 8
  • Why Compute"
  • Windows 95/98/NT Hints
  • UB Unix Hints
• Lecture 3: September 3
  • Erratum and Information
  • Console input in Java
  • Console input using a menu
  • Study Suggestions and Exercises
• Lecture 2: September 1
  • Programs, poetry and music
  • Java doesn't care
  • Discussion of Coffee.java
  • Study Suggestions and Exercises
• Lecture 1: August 30
  • Models of Physical Phenomena
  • Coffee Cooling Simulation
  • Coffee.java
  • Compiling and Interpreting
  • Java Concepts
  • Study Suggestions and Exercises

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