The name of Physics 373 is: Introduction to Computing in Physics. This course introduces basic scientific computing skills: the C++ programming language, as used in scientific computing, a variety of Unix utilities to manipulate and graph data, and the Maple computer algebra package for solving physical problems. These tools are applied to a variety of data analysis problems to illustrate elementary numerical methods: statistical analysis of data, least chi square fitting, interpolation, numerical integration, and the solution of ordinary differential equations.
There is an overview lecture plan which may be of interest.
If you wish to learn more about the course, you can look at the material created by Professor DeTar, who taught the course last year. (Also you may wish to look at the way I taught the course two years ago.) The course will be taught slightly differently to last year, in particular C++ will be used as the programming language, and the midterm exam will be replaced by the requirement that the students write a medium sized computer program during the quarter.
Last modified: Sun Mar 29 14:06:43 1998