PHYS-4810: Computational Physics
Schedule - Fall, 2005
|
Class |
Date |
Topic |
Key Concepts |
|
1 |
8/30 |
Introduction to
MATLAB |
|
|
2 |
9/2 |
Projectile
Motion |
Euler’s
method for ODEs |
|
3 |
9/6 |
Simple Pendulum |
Problems
with Euler’s method |
|
4 |
9/9 |
Simple Pendulum |
Runge-Kutta
Methods |
|
5 |
9/13 |
Damped Oscillator |
Runge-Kutta Methods |
|
6 |
9/16 |
Driven Pendulum |
Adaptive Runge-Kutta |
|
7 |
9/20 |
Chaos: Lyapunov
Exponents |
Lyapunov
Exponent |
|
8 |
9/23 |
Chaos: Strange Attractors |
Phase Portrait, Poincare Section |
|
9 |
9/27 |
Chaos: Period Doubling |
Feigenbaum parameter |
|
10 |
9/30 |
Orbital Motion |
Binary stars and planets |
|
11 |
10/4 |
Digital Fourier Transforms |
Sampling
theorem, FFT |
|
12 |
10/7 |
Digital Fourier Transforms |
Aliasing
and Windowing |
|
|
10/11 |
NO
CLASS - MONDAY SCHEDULE |
|
|
13 |
10/14 |
Power Spectra |
Linear
vs nonlinear oscillations |
|
14 |
10/18 |
Wave Packets |
Wave
Packets |
|
15 |
10/21 |
Windowing |
Windowed
data |
|
16 |
10/25 |
Amplitude Modulation |
Optical
signals |
|
17 |
10/28 |
Dispersion in Wave Packets |
Uncertainty
principle; dispersion |
|
18 |
11/1 |
Potential Theory |
Numerical integration |
|
19 |
11/4 |
Potential Theory |
|
|
20 |
11/8 |
PDEs |
Heat Equation |
|
21 |
11/11 |
Canceled |
|
|
22 |
11/15 |
Nuclear Weapons |
Diffusion with reactions |
|
23 |
11/18 |
|
Relaxation Methods |
|
24 |
11/22 |
Schrodinger Equation |
Periodic boundary conditions |
|
|
11/25 |
NO CLASS -
THANKSGIVING |
|
|
25 |
11/29 |
Canceled |
|
|
26 |
12/2 |
Schrodinger Equation |
|
|
27 |
12/6 |
Schrodinger
Equation |
|
|
28 |
12/9 |
Schrodinger
Equation |
|
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