12578 (v.3) Computational Physics 102

Area:	Department of Applied Physics
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0

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Lecture:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:	Design for students who have passed TEE Applicable Mathematics and TEE 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.

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Field of Education:	10301 Physics
Funding Cluster:	08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark
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12578 (v.3) Computational Physics 102

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