Standard
Course Syllabus
Physics 3300 Computational Physics
Date
Approved: 26 March 2001
Offered:
Spring Semester annually.
Prerequisites
for this Course: Physics 2220, 2300.
This
course is a prerequisite for: None.
Credit
Hours: Three.Three hours of lecture per week.
Example
Text: A
First Course in Computational Physics
by DeVries
Topics
Covered: Selected from the Following: Root finding, curve fitting and
interpolation methods.Linear
systems.Numerical integration.Numerical solutions to differential equations.Fourier analysis.Monte
Carlo methods.Computer simulation
of the physical world.
Skills
Emphasized: Solving physics problems with a computer.