Computational Physics 2004

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Course timetable.

Resources

• Lecture handouts and errata
• Fortran 95 example programs
• NAG Library on-line documentation
• Detailed course notes on FORTRAN 90 developed at the University of Liverpool
• A guide to getting started with gnuplot, and the gnuplot manual.
• Running the NAG compiler and the NAG library on your own machine 
• Some advice about network access to PWF Linux, including from home.
• Computing Service UNIX Support PWF Linux web pages
• FAQ list of Frequently Asked Questions
• Links to some web-based simulation examples
• LaTeX: some notes for the curious

Problems

• Problems: you should select one of the problems to tackle as the Head of Class exercise.

Books and Reference Material

• Fortran 90/95 explained, Metcalf and Reid, Oxford
• Fortran 90 for Scientists and Engineers, Hahn, Arnold
• Unix in a Nutshell, Gilly, O'Reilly & Associates
• An Introduction to Computer Simulation, Woolfson and Pert, Oxford
• Computational Physics, Thijssen, Cambridge (Advanced and quite specialised)
• Computational Techniques in Physics, MacKeown & Newman, Adam Hilger
• Computer Simulation Methods, Heermann, Springer Verlag (Good for N-body methods and Monte Carlo approach).
• Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN, 2nd Edition, Press et al. Cambridge (An advanced text for reference).