PHYS 314: Computational Physics

Course Description

An introduction to numerical and computational techniques in physics and astronomy. Topics include an introduction to scientific computing, fitting data to a model, visualizing results, plotting, error analysis, and writing software to solve physical problems. Applications will be selected from a variety of subfields, including: biomedical physics, classical mechanics, statistical physics, electromagnetism, astrophysics, and chaos. Four hours lecture. (Every fourth semester) (F, W).