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12578 (v.3) Computational Physics 102



 

Area:

Department of Applied Physics

Contact Hours:

4.0

Credits:

25.0

Lecture:

2 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Other Requisite(s):

Admission: requisite upon completion of TEE Applicable Mathematics and Calculus
Purpose of computing in Physics. The Need for numerical methods. Nature of the laboratory. Hardware terminology. Review of computer architecture. Round-off and truncation. Meaning of variables. Review of numerical integration and root finding. Programming principles. Documentation. Print and Read statements. Assignments Statements. Expressions. Intrinsic functions, Statement functions. Further numerical integration. Control structures. Arrays. FOR loops. Review of elementary statistics (random variables,distributions, mean, variance). Data and parameter statements. Formatted I/O Elementary file operations. Monte-Carlo simulations. Sub-programs. Least Squares. Function libraries. File operations. Sorting. Vector and matrix operations. Character handling.Graphing. Smoothing. Differencing. Trend removal. Logical, Complex, Double Precision. Gauss Elimination. Least Squares revisited. LU decomposition. Introduction to FORTRAN.


Availability

YearLocationPeriodInternalArea ExternalCentral External
2004Bentley CampusSemester 2Y  

Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

 
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