Welcome to the online manual for Physics 373.
This course teaches the basic skills of scientific computing. If you wish to learn more about the course, you can read the brief description If this is your first visit to this page, please look at the guidelines on using this web manual.
The solutions to the final exam are available .
Now that the course is over, your computer accounts will be removed after some grace period. There is some information about how to save the work in your accounts.
This chapter contains administrative information
about the course.
Detailed lecture plan
List of assignments and solutions.
Class programming project with solutions
This chapter is full of reference information
on computational physics.
This chapter contains the archive of announcements
emailed to the class.
A collection of background
material for the course.
Tired? Frustrated? Then maybe you should look
for some human help.
Ken Wilson (Nobel Prize Winner in Physics)The computational approach to doing science is inherently multi-disciplinary: it requires of its practitioners a firm grounding in applied mathematics and computer science in addition to a command of one or more scientific or engineering disciplines or in the high-tech arts.