Don Luttermoser's PHYS-4007/5007 Course Web Page
This web page has been set up for the students at ETSU taking PHYS-4007/5007
Computational Physics with Dr. Luttermoser. Links have been set up for
the students to download the course notes, handouts that have been given out in
class, the course projects web pages, and the textbook's web page. The files
that can be downloaded are PDF (Portable Document Format) files (which requires
Acrobat Reader to view).
Note that we will be using Version 4.1 of these course notes.
Course Syllabus for PHYS-4007/5007, Computational
Physics.
You can also download a
PDF
version of this syllabus by clicking on the
appropriate link (note that the hardcopies given out in class is the PDF
version.
Computational Physics Course Notes Sections
Course Projects Web Pages
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Project #1:
Determining Hubble's Constant web page.
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Project #2:
Web page containing suggestions and helpful hints.
Useful Web Sites for this Course
- Web site of course textbook set up by the authors: Landau & Paez's
Computational Physics.
- An extremely useful web site for Computational
Physics can be found at:
http://www.astro.ku.dk/comp-phys/Info/tools.shtml. As a matter of
fact, some of the course notes were retrieved from information found on some of
the web sites found here.
- Web site of PCTeX.
Note that PCTeX is rather costly (around $300 for single-user license).
- A free version of LaTeX, called
MikTeX for Microsoft Windows
machines, can be downloaded from this link.
- A variety of LaTeX tools, including a Windows LaTeX editor,
can be downloaded from the
ToolsCenter site.
- Software (Ghostscript and Ghostview) to view and print
postscript files on a Windows machine can be found at the
GhostScript site.
- Web site of
NetLib, which contains
high-quality free-ware, software packages for Fortran.
- Web site of the
Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), which has developed various
numerical
libraries containing over 1000 user-callable subroutines for solving
general applied math problems, including: ordinary and partial differential
equations, optimization problems, FFT and other transforms, quadrature, linear
algebra, non-linear equations, integral equations, and more.
- Web site of Visual Numerics,
Inc., which sells the IMSL
Fortran numerical library.
- Web site of GAMS
(Guide to Available Mathematical Software) from the National Bureau of
Standards and Technology (NIST).
- The Numerical
Recipes F77, F90, and C books can be access by clicking on the link. This
site contains the entire contents of all three book in PDF. The codes found in
these books cannot be downloaded from this site, but a link to Cambridge
University Press is given which will enable you to purchase the software of the
Numerical Recipes routines online. Of course, one can type any routine
in by hand from what is given in these books.
- Web site of the
Digital
FORTRAN compiler as sold by Intel (price in Spring 2004 was $499).
- Web site of other Fortran compilers include
Google list of Fortran vendors and the free-ware
GNU Program
compiler.
- Web site for IDL
which is sold by Research Systems, Inc. (RSI
).
Click here to go to Dr. Luttermoser's current courses page.
Click here to go to the Department of Physics and Astronomy
homepage.
Last modified: September 2, 2008 by D.G. Luttermoser