Physics 281 - Computational Physics

Wednesday/Friday Section

Fall 2009

Schedule of Classes and Topics

Class Day Date Lecture Topic Exercise
1 W Sep 9 Introduction [pdf] -
2 F Sep 11 MATLAB Lecture 1 [pdf] Exercise 1
3 W Sep 16 MATLAB Lecture 2 [pdf] Exercise 2
4 F Sep 18 MATLAB Lecture 3 [pdf] Exercise 3
5 W Sep 23 MATLAB Lecture 4 [pdf] Exercise 4
6 F Sep 25 Iteration and Recursion [pdf] Exercise 5
7 W Sep 30 Interpolation [pdf] Exercise 6
8 F Oct 2 Numerical Integration [pdf] Exercise 7
9 W Oct 7 Random Numbers [pdf] Exercise 8
10 F Oct 9 Random Walk [pdf] Exercise 9
11 W Oct 14 Project 1 [pdf] Project 1
12 F Oct 16 - - -
13 W Oct 21 Ordinary Differential Equations 1 [pdf] Exercise 10
14 F Oct 23 Ordinary Differential Equations 2 [pdf] Exercise 11
15 W Oct 28 Ordinary Differential Equations 3 [pdf] Exercise 12
16 F Oct 30 Equations of Motion and Orbits [pdf] Exercise 13
17 W Nov 4 Fourth Order Runge-Kutta [pdf] Exercise 14
18 F Nov 6 Three Body Project [pdf] Project 2
19 W Nov 11 NO CLASS - -
20 F Nov 13 - - -
21 W Nov 18 Partial Differential Equations 1 [pdf] Exercise 15
22 F Nov 20 Partial Differential Equations 2 [pdf] -
23 W Nov 25 Happy Thanksgiving! - -
- F Nov 27 THANKSGIVING BREAK - -
24 W Dec 2 - - -
25 F Dec 4 - - -
26 W Dec 9 - - -
27 F Dec 11 - - -

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