Computational Physics Page

Physics 4810/7820

This page contains information on the Physics 4810/7820 Computational Physics course. This course is about solving current problems in computational physics. Physics will motivate the learning of underlying numerical methods. Topics include chaos, stochastic systems, wave equations (including quantum), and molecular dynamics. Select interdisciplinary topics will be introduced, including protein folding, neural nets, and self-organized criticality. The course will cover the numerical solution to ordinary and partial differential equations.

Warning: The documents below are available in both Word and HTML format. Word97 was used to generate the HTML documents, and therefore, the HTML documents contain formatting errors.

The most important course information can be found in the syllabus. Word Version HTML Version

Here is a tutorial to Get Started with IDL. Word Version HTML Version

Here is a very limited Explanation of IDL Syntax and Graphics. Word Version HTML Version It is intended to help you get fairly self-sufficient. That is, comfortable enough with IDL to use the online documentation when need you need further information.

Look here for various Course Example Programs.

Assigned projects and important messages: Word Version HTML Version.

Course Lecture Notes.

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Please feel free to contact Scott.Parker@colorado.edu or Samuel.Jones@colorado.edu if you have any questions.