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PHYS 4060 - Computational Physics
  
Course last offered 
 :   
Spring 2017/18
Instructor(s)
 :
PAN Ding
No. of credits
 :
3


Teaching Pattern
  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks
  • Lecture hour(s) / laboratory hour(s) per week: 3 / 3
 
Content
This course introduces the use of computer to solve problems and to simulate physical phenomena:
 
  • numerical solution of integration
  • ordinary differential equations, linear and non-linear equations
  • Fourier transforms
  • stochastic processes
  • Monte Carlo methods
  • partial differential equations

Visualization tools will be used to interpret results of the calculations.

 
Remarks
  • Prerequisite: COMP 1002
  • Corequisite: PHYS 3031
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS