Computational Physics : Problem Solving With Computers - With Cd - 97 edition

Landau, Rubin H. : Oregon State University

Rubin H. Landau, Phd, is a professor in the Department of Physics at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He teaches the course in computational physics, helps direct the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering, and has been using computers in theoretical physics research for the past 30 years. The author of more than 70 refereed publications, he is the author of Quantum Mechanics II and A Scientist's and Engineer's Guide to Workstations and Supercomputers, both
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Paez, Manuel J. : University of Antioquia

Manuel J. Paez, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. He teaches courses in computational physics, programming, and nuclear physics. He and Professor Landau have conducted pioneering computational investigations in the interactions of mesons and nucleons with nuclei.

GENERALITIES.

Computing Software Basics.
Errors and Uncertainties in Computations.

APPLICATIONS.

Data Fitting.
Deterministic Randomness.
Monte Carlo Applications.
Differentiation.
Differential Equations and Oscillations.
Anharmonic Oscillations.
Unusual Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems.
Differential Chaos in Phase Space.
Matrix Computing and Subroutine Libraries.
Bound States in Momentum Space.
Computing Hardware Basics: Memory and CPU.
High-Performance Computing: Profiling and Tuning.
Object-Oriented Programming: Kinematics.
Thermodynamic Simulations: The Ising Model.
Fractals.

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.

Heat Flow.
Waves on a String.

NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.

Solitons, The KdeV Equation.
Confined Electronic Wave Packets.

Appendices.
Glossary.
References.
Index.