| NFYA27 | Introduction to Computational Physics, 2 ECTS credits. /Fysikaliska beräkningar/ |
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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 principles 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) Principles of physics NFYA29 and MATLAB introductory course TSRT01 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: The problems treated in the course further develops material presented in the course Principles of physics. The problems are studied in the exercises and in the projects by means of computer simulations and visualizations, which include program development and implementation in MATLAB. Items: 1. Planetary orbits, precession of the perihelion, Euler's and Runge-Kutta's methods. 2. Radioactive decay, stochastic and deterministic models. 3. Diffusion, entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, random walk. 4. Ferromagnetism, Curie temperature, the Ising model, Bolzmann factor, 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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| Reported and passed exercises and projects. |
1,5 p |
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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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