Physics 410: Computational Physics: Notes


This document will be updated throughout the course.

  • Sep. 8 and Sep. 10: Overview/review of MATLAB [PDF]
  • Material for 2020 Lecture 9 recording (FDAs) [PDF]
  • Oct. 13: The Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg Method [PDF]
  • Oct. 13-25: ODE Applications using ODE45 [PDF]
  • Oct 27: Solving boundary value problems with shooting [PDF]
  • Nov 3: Tridiagonal structure of FDA for diffusion equation [PDF]
  • Nov 22: Relaxation for elliptic PDE's [PDF]
    • Gauss-Seidel: Solution [AVI]
    • Gauss-Seidel: Error [AVI]
    • SOR: Solution [AVI]
    • SOR: Error [AVI]
  • Nov 24: Random number generation and diffusion limited aggregation [PDF]
  • Nov 29: 2d Ising model [PDF]
  • Dec 3: FFTs: Power spectra [PDF]