| NFYA27 | Introduction to Computational Physics, 2 ECTS credits. /Fysikaliska beräkningar/ |
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 18 |
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Area of Education: Science Subject area: Physics |
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| Advancement level
(A-D): A
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| Aim: The course gives an introduction to computational physics and treats physical phenomena and concepts in a number of different fields. After the course, the student will be able to to study a physical problem by writing a computer program and carrying out simulations. |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) NFYA14 Principles of physics and TSRT01 Matlab introductory course or equivalent courses. Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Organisation: Lectures, computer exercises and minor projects. |
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| Course contents: A number of physical systems are studied in the exercises and projects by means of computer simulations and visualizations, which include program development and implementation in Matlab. Items: Planetary orbits, precession of the perihelion, Euler's and Runge-Kutta's methods. Models of radioactive decay. Diffusion, entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, random walk. Ferromagnetism, Curie temperature, the Ising model, Monte Carlo methods, the Metropolis algorithm. |
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| Course literature: M. Boman, Fysikaliska beräkningar - labhandledning. N. J. Girodano, Computational Physics, Prentice Hall. |
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| Examination: | |||
| Reported and passed exercises and projects. |
1,5 p |
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| Grades are given as �?~Fail�?T or �?~Pass�?T. | |||
Course language is Swedish. Department offering the course: IFM. Director of Studies: Magnus Boman Examiner: Magnus Boman Link to the course homepage at the department Course Syllabus in Swedish |
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