Requirements/prerequisites:

Duration: Michaelmas Term, 11 weeks

Number of lectures per week: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial

Assessment: 3 programming assignments, each worth 10%. 70% exam

ECTS credits: 5

End-of-year Examination: 2 hour exam in Trinity Term

Description:

Textbooks:

Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• show familiarity with basic usage of the C++ programming language

• recognise the numerical algorithms suitable for finding approximate solutions to ordinary differential equations
• recognise the numerical algorithms suitable for finding approximate solutions to partial differential equations
• explain how Monte Carlo simulation can approximate solutions to high-dimensional integration and summation problems
• write software in C++ to construct numerical solutions to questions that arise in theoretical physics.
• discuss the problems that arise in using numerical solutions