PHY 410-505 Computational Physics I Fall 2008

Lecture Notes

Chapter 1

• Friday September 5 Lecture Notes

• Wednesday September 3 Lecture Notes and codes decay2.cpp, decay2.m.

• Friday August 29 Lecture Notes and codes range.cpp, doublebits.cpp, manyround.cpp, quadratic.cpp, golden.cpp.

• Wednesday August 27 Lecture Notes

• Monday August 25 Lecture Notes and codes: hello.cpp, decay.cpp, decay.m.

Information

• The required textbook Computational Physics by Giordano and Nakanishi is available at the University Bookstore and from many online bookstores.

• We will be using C++ as the official programming language this semester, and Mathematica optionally as a fancy calculator.

• Numerical Recipes is a great reference for computational physics. We will be using the free Second Edition in C online. Note: you need to download and install the free FileOpen plugin.

• Thinking in C++ Volume 1 by Bruce Eckel

Syllabus

• Course Syllabus in PDF format