PHY 411-506 Computational Physics II Spring 2008

Lectures

• Monday, April 28

• Friday, April 25

• Wednesday, April 23

• Monday, April 21

• Friday, April 18
  Magnitude 5.2 Quake in Illinois

• Wednesday, April 16

• Monday, April 14
  Big Quake Likely in California
  Explosive Beats: Japanese Taiko Drumming

• Friday, April 11

• Wednesday, April 9

• Monday, April 7

• Friday, April 4 class cancelled due to Rustgi Lecture
• Lee Smolin's home page
• Fly's Eye Confirms GZK Cutoff
• Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

• Wednesday, April 2

• Monday, March 31

• Friday, March 28

• Wednesday, March 26

• Chapter 10 Lecture Notes and Codes

• Chapter 9 Lecture Notes and Codes

• Chapter 8 Lecture Notes and Codes

Homework

• Assignment 6: Due Monday, April 7 before 5:00 p.m.
• Exercises 10.15, 10.18, 10.20

• Assignment 5: Due Monday, March 24 before 5:00 p.m.
• Exercises 10.2, 10.4, 10.6

• Previous Homework Assignments

Semester Project

• Project Proposal due Wednesday, January 30: submit a one-page description with title, abstract, and references.
• Search for a Light Standard Model Higgs Boson in the H->WW* Channel - Lili Chu
• Jet Structure of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 - Chase Ellis
• Traffic Flow Model Using Cellular Automaton - Jeffrey Hafner
• Problem of Pursuit on a Plane - Aleh Haramykin
• Lorenz Model for Atmospheric Physics - Mark Laurri
• Time-dependent Schrodinger Equation in Two Dimensions - Fu-Chang Sun

• Midterm progress report presentations in class Week of March 3. Describe your project and the progress you have made.
  Please email me a PDF of your midterm presentation so I can post it on this web page for others in the class the review!
• Lili Chu
• Chase Ellis
• Jeffrey Hafner
• Aleh Haramykin
• Mark Laurri
• Fu-Chang Sun

• Project Presentation during final exam Wednesday, May 7 from 3:30 - 6:30 pm, in Baldy 112.
• Classroom has technology podium with Windows PC, laptop port, etc.
• Sample Presentation, Sample Code, Sample Report.

• Suggestions for projects:
• Choose a topic from any chapter of the textbook.
• A topic in your research area DIFFERENT from your thesis topic.
• Project suggestions from Dr. Furnstahl's Course
• Class Projects from Dr. Adler's Course
• Project References from Dr. Gould's Simulations in Physics book web site.
• Note: Downloading project writeups and/or project code from the Web constitutes plagiarism. All sources and references that you use should be properly cited.

Information

• PHY 410-505 Computational Physics I

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

• We will continue to use C++ and Mathematica this semester.

Syllabus

• Course Syllabus in PDF format.