Other Courses • Physics 170 • Schedule • Project • Code Examples • Notes
| Week | Date | Topic | Assignment Set | Assignment Due | Notes / Reading |
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| 1 | 1/24 | Introduction; computational packages; graphics | Exercise A on binary data and graphing Binary data for exercise A |
Introduction Advice |
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| 2 | 1/31 | Taylor's theorem and numerical integration of functions | Exercise B on integration: at your choice, pick either
Exercise 4 or Exercise 5 of the Integration notes Problem 1 on integration |
Exercise A | Numerical integration [pdf] |
| 3 | 2/7 | No class; have fun with the notes on integration, and work on Exercise B | |||
| 4 | 2/14 | Initial value problems, Euler, and Runge-Kutta | Exercise C on integrating ODEs is the second exercise of the notes on ODEs Problem 2 on integrating Newton's equations of motion |
Exercise B | Ordinary differential equations [pdf] |
| 5 | 2/21 | Systems of ODEs | Exercise D on FFTs; | Problem 1 | |
| 6 | 2/28 | Fourier Transforms | Problem 3 on FFTs applied to the planetary orbit problem | Exercise C | Fourier transforms [pdf] |
| 7 | 3/7 | More on the FFT | Exercise D Project Proposal |
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| 3/14 | Spring Break | ||||
| 8 | 3/21 | Discussion of Problem 2 and Projects | Problem 2 | ||
| 9 | 3/28 | Computerized tomography | Tomography [pdf] | ||
| 10 | 4/4 | Throwing darts: Monte Carlo integration; Ising model of ferromagnetism, Metropolis algorithm | Problem 3 | Metropolis algorithm [pdf] | |
| 11 | 4/11 | ? | |||
| 12 | 4/18 | ? | |||
| 13 | 4/25 | Project presentations | |||
| 14 | 5/? Date depends on committee | Project presentations | |||