School of Mathematics
School of Mathematics
Course 342 - Practical computational simulations.
2000-01 (
JS Theoretical Physics, JS Mathematics, JS Computational Science.
)
Lecturer:
Dr. Mike Peardon
Requirements/prerequisites:
Some knowledge of C programming.
Duration:
Michaelmas term.
Number of lectures per week:
1 lecture per week, with a 1 hour lab class.
Assessment:
Assessment is through lab attendance and assignments and a project.
End-of-year Examination:
None.
Description:
The course provides a practical introduction to some numerical techniques for
simulating physical systems.
- The C compiler: Using the C compiler, command line arguments, file
input/output, structures, linking to libraries.
- Matrix methods: inversion, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
- Finite difference methods: solving ODEs and PDEs.
Textbooks:
- UNIX in a Nutshell, Robbins. O'Reilly
Publishing. ISBN: 1-56592-427-4.
- Practical C Programming, 3rd Edition, Oualline. O'Reilly
Publishing. ISBN: 1-56592-306-5.
- Numerical Recipes in C, Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling and
Flannery. Cambridge. ISBN: 0-521-43108-5. Online: http://www.nr.com/
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