- Computational Software Basics
- Errors and Uncertainties in Computations
- Object-Oriented Programming: Kinematics
- Integration
- Differentiation
- Trial & Error Searching
- Matrix Computing and N-D Newton Raphson
- Data Fitting
- Deterministic Randomness
- Monte Carlo Applications
- Thermodynamic Simulations: Ising Model
- Computer Hardware Basics: Memory and CPU
- High Performance Computing: Profiling and Tuning
- Differential Equation Applications
- Quantum Eigenvalues via ODE Matching
- Fourier Analysis of Linear and Nonlinear Signals
- Unusual Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems
- Differential Chaos in Phase Space
- Fractals
- Parallel Computing
- Parallel Computing with MPI
- Electrostatics Potentials via Finite Differences (PDEs)
- Heat Flow
- PDE Waves on Strings and Membranes
- Solitons;
KdeV and Sine-Gordon
- Quantum Wave Packets
- Quantum Paths for Functional Integration
- Quantum Bound States via Integral Equations
- Quantum Scattering via Integral Equations
Appendices:
PtPlot: 2D Graphs within Java
Glossary
Fortran 95 Codes
Fortran 77 Codes
C Language Codes
Rubin H. Landau, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Physics
at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He teaches courses in
computational physics, helps direct the Northwest Alliance for
Computational Science and Engineering, and has been using computers
in theoretical physics research for the past 30 years. The author
of more than 70 refereed publications, he has also authored the
books Quantum Mechanics II, A Scientist's and Engineer's Guide to
Workstations and Supercomputers, and the first edition of
Computational Physics, all of them available from Wiley.
Manuel J. Paez, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Physics at
the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. He teaches
courses in computational physics, programming, and nuclear physics.
He and Professor Landau have conducted pioneering computational
investigations in the interactions of mesons and nucleons with
nuclei.
Cristian C. Bordeianu received his physics degree from Bucharest
University, Romania, and his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from
"A.I.Cuza" University in Jassy, Romania. He is currently completing
work towards a Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Physics at Bucharest
University. He has over ten years of experience in developing
Computational Physics educational software for high schools and
University curricula. His current research interests include
chaotic dynamics in nuclear multifragmentation and plasma of quarks
and gluons.
"Landau and Paez's book would be an excellent choice for a course
on computational physics which emphasizes computational methods and
programming."
(American Journal of Physics)
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