Computational Physics (2nd Edition)

vectorcrumb 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Could somebody provide some opinion on the book and/or accompanying course?

HexDecOctBin 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What physics do I need to know to follow this book?

	▲	griffzhowl an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Looks like not much. The book is about using Python to implement numerical methods, mainly about teaching the Python part, and that's all explained. You might be missing motivation if you don't know any physics, but even so, basic mechanics using differential equations seems to be enough to give context, at least for the earlier parts
	▲	mapt 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Exercises by chapter Click on a chapter to download: Chapter 2: Python programming for physicists Chapter 3: Graphics and visualization Chapter 4: Accuracy and speed Chapter 5: Integrals and derivatives Chapter 6: Solution of linear and nonlinear equations Chapter 7: Fourier transforms Chapter 8: Ordinary differential equations Chapter 9: Partial differential equations Chapter 10: Random processes and Monte Carlo methods Chapter 11: Data science

▲

ktallett an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I did a few courses across academic years that were based around this book and it's very handy skills to learn. Whilst perhaps not in the moment, it's a good introduction to implementing functions and equations, before you lead on to the next steps of specific functions and methods of analysis alongside hpc with parallelization.

▲

ninjahawk1 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

good book