Physics 3730/6720 Lecture Plan

Contents

• Week 1 , Week 2 , Week 3 , Week 4
• Week 5 , Week 6 , Week 7 , Week 8
• Week 9 , Week 10 , Week 11 Week 12 ,
• Week 13 , Week 14 , Week 15 , Week 16 , Final

Topics to be covered

Physics 3730/6720 Lecture Plan

• Week 1

  8-24-09 Organization and Lab Basics
  • Class syllabus
  • Logging in and windows manipulation.
  • Unix file structure
  • Wild cards
  • Text editor: emacs.
  
  8-26-09 More Unix
  • emacs window
  • emacs hot keys
  • Putting a process in the backgroud.
  • Paths: relative and absolute
  • Redirection and pipes
  • man pages
  • Remote access from Windows: Putty and XWin-32.
  
  

• Week 2

  8-31-09 More Unix and emacs. Introduction to C++
  • emacs, tcsh: tab filename completion
  • Simple use of awk
  • Creating and compiling a first C++ program. hello.cc
  • A second C++ program: whoyou.cc

  Last drop Day 9-02-09

  9-02-09 Plotting, Histogramming
  • emacs: How to edit two files at once
  • Gnuplot

• Week 3

  9-07-09 Labor Day Holiday
  
  

  Last add day 9-08-09

  9-09-09 Roundoff, convergence
  • Histograms
  • make utility
  • Algorithmic errors: Roundoff. Roots of quadratic: quadratic.cc
  
  

• Week 4

  9-14-09 Introduction to Maple; Roots of Nonlinear Equations
  • Maple basics
  • Fixed point iteration
  
  9-16-09 Roots of Nonlinear Equations
  • emacs: How to reduce C++ bugs: Emacs C++ editing mode
  • Order of convergence
  • Bisection, regula falsi, Newton-Raphson
  • C++ Newton-Raphson code: for loops
  
  

• Week 5

  9-21-09 Control Structures and Functions in C++
  • emacs cutting and pasting
  • for, while, break, continue
  • Introduction to arrays: declaration, subscripts and looping
  • Introduction to functions
  
  9-23-09 Pointers, References, Arrays and Function Calls
  • emacs incremental search
  • emacs search and replace
  • Pointers, references in subprogram calls
  • Variable scope
  
  

• Week 6

  9-28-09 References, Pointers, Arrays
  • Pseudocode
  • References, Pointers, Arrays
  
  9-30-09 Pseudocode and Polynomials
  • emacs backup and autosave
  • Horner's algorithm for polynomials
  • Pseudocode and Playing Computer
  
  

• Week 7

  10-05-09 C++ Classes: Complex Numbers
  • A simple complex class
  • Operator overloading
  
  10-07-09 Midterm Exam in Student Laboratory 210 S Phys
  • 4:10 - 5:20 PM
  
  

  Fall Break 10-12-09 to 10-17-09

  
  

• Week 8

  10-19-09 Standard "canned" classes
  • Review
  • Methods, private members, and accessors.
  • Templates for classes and functions.
  • The Standard C++ complex and string classes
  
  10-21-09 Solving Linear Systems
  • Gaussian elimination
  • Crout method for LU decomposition
  • The standard vector class

  Last withdrawal day 10-24-09

• Week 9

  10-26-09 Solving Eigenvalue Problems
  • Matrices in C++: Introduction
  • Maple eigenvalues
  • tridiagsys.h
  
  10-28-09 Solving Eigenvalue Problems
  • Eigenvalues
  • Power method
  • Inverse power method
  • Example of the need for eigenvalues: Quantum anharmonic oscillator
  
  

• Week 10

  11-02-09 Solving Eigenvalue Problems
  • Representing matrices in C++ and Fortran
  • Using LAPACK
  • Compiling and linking with LAPACK
  
  11-04-09 File I/O
  • Quick overview of Householder and QR methods for eigenvalues
  • Formatting tables of numbers with cout and printf .
  • File I/O
  
  

• Week 11

  11-09-09 Discrete Fourier transforms
  • Discrete Fourier transform
  
  11-11-09 Document preparation with HTML and LaTeX
  • Introduction to HTML
  • Simple example
  • Introduction to LaTeX
  
  

• Week 12

  11-16-09 Document preparation with LaTeX
  • Math with LaTeX (Exercise).
  • LaTeX article style source example and result example.
  • RevTeX article style source example and result example.
  
  11-18-09 Least Squares Data Fitting
  • Introduction to Statistics
  
  

• Week 13

  11-23-09 Least Squares Data Fitting
  • Chi square and significance
  
  11-25-09 Project Assignment
  • Lecture and lab session: Help with project assignment
  
  

• Thanksgiving Break 11-26-09 to 11-27-09

• Week 14

  11-30-09 Least Squares Data Fitting
  • Review of chi square and significance
  • Error matrix and correlations
  
  12-02-09 Solving Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Euler method
  • Modified Euler method
  • Second order systems: leapfrog method
  
  

• Week 15

  12-07-09 Solving Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Runge Kutta method
  • Precision and Stability
  
  12-09-09 Review
  • Solving a nonlinear equation
  • Linear Algebra Methods.
  • Eigenvalues
  • Fourier Transforms
  • Curve Fitting
  • ODEs
  
  

• Final Exam Week

  12-17-09 (Thursday) Final Exam in Student Laboratory 210 S Phys.
  • 1:00 - 3:00 PM
  
  

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