Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
PH 211
Department of Physics
University at Albany
Albany NY 12222
USA
Phone: +1-518-442-4653
FAX: +1-518-442-5260
Email: kknuth@albany.edu
A PHY 660
Spring 2008
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:15 – 11:35
Physics Building Room 224
Instructor: Dr. Kevin Knuth
Contact: kknuth@albany.edu PH 211, 442 - 4653
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:45 – 2:15pm, 4:05 – 4:35 pm, PH 211
Teaching Assistant: Deniz Gencaga
DOWNLOAD FINAL EXAM HERE
Results Due: May 15, 12:01 pm, PHY 224
Text: Computational Physics, Rubin H. Landau and Manuel J. Páez, Wiley-VCH:Weinheim, 2004.
Recommended:
Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, Third Edition, Brian Hahn and Dan Valentine, 2007.
Software: Matlab Release 14 (or later): Student Version
Syllabus here...
Matlab Links
The Mathworks (makers of Matlab)
Matlab Primer by Kermit Sigmon
Getting Started with Matlab by David Hart and Jim Albert
Matlab Tutorial by Nam Sun Wang at UMD
Introduction to Programming with Matlab from UCL
Week
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Topic
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| 1 | Tues Jan 29 | Ch 1: Computational Physics | HW 1 | Feb 7 |
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| Thurs Jan 31 | Introduction to Matlab | |||
| 2 | Tues Feb 5 | Ch 2: Representation of Numbers | ||
| Thurs Feb 7 | Ch 2: Representation of Numbers | |||
| 3 | Tues Feb 12 | Ch 3: Error, Accuracy, and Precision | HW 2 | Feb 19 |
| Thurs Feb 14 | Ch 3: Error, Accuracy, and Precision | |||
| 4 | Tues Feb 21 | No Class | ||
| Thurs Feb 23 | Matrices | |||
| 5 | Tues Feb 26 | Ch 4: Numerical Integration | HW 3 | Mar 4 |
| Thurs Feb 28 | Matrices, Strings and Plotting | |||
| 6 | Tues Mar 4 | Finding Roots of Equations | HW 4 | Mar 20 |
| Thurs Mar 6 | Ch 6,7: MCMC Simulations | |||
| 7 | Tues Mar 11 | Ch 8: Numerical Differentiation | ||
| Thurs Mar 14 | Ch 9: Solving Differential Equations | |||
| 8 | Tues Mar 18 | Air Resistance | ||
| Thurs Mar 20 | MIDTERM EXAM | |||
| Break | ||||
| 9 | Tues Apr 1 | Oscillations and Planetary Orbits | ||
| Thurs Apr 3 | Ch 13: The Logistic Equation | |||
| 10 | Tues Apr 8 | Ch 24: Fractal Geometry | HW 5 | Apr 15 |
| Thurs Apr 10 | Ch 14: Nonlinear Dynamics | |||
| 11 | Tues Apr 15 | Lorentz Equation | HW 6 | Apr 29 |
| Tues Apr 17 | Ch 25: Partial Differential Equations | |||
| 12 | Tues Apr 22 | Ch 25: Electric Potential | HW 7 | Apr 29 |
| Thurs Apr 24 | Schrodinger’s Equation | |||
| 13 | Tues Apr 29 | Schrodinger’s Equation | ||
| Thurs May 1 | Two-Dimensional Time-Dependent Problems | |||
| 14 | Tues May 6 | Visualization | ||
| Thurs May 15 | TAKE HOME FINAL EXAM DUE | May 15, 12:01 pm, PHY 224 |