Physics 410: Computational Physics: Notes


This document will be updated throughout the course.

  • Sep 11, 14 & 16: Overview/review of MATLAB [PDF]
  • Sep 30: Finite difference notes (partial, due to computer malfunction) [PDF]
  • Oct 19: The Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg Method [PDF]
  • Oct 19-27: ODE Applications using ODE45 [PDF]
  • Oct 27: Solving boundary value problems with shooting [PDF]
  • Nov 6: Tridiagonal structure of FDA for diffusion equation [PDF]
  • Nov 23: Relaxation for elliptic PDEs [PDF]
    • Gauss-Seidel: Solution [AVI]
    • Gauss-Seidel: Error [AVI]
    • SOR: Solution [AVI]
    • SOR: Error [AVI]
  • Nov 23-27: Random number generation and diffusion limited aggregation [PDF]
  • Nov 30-Dec 2: The 2D Ising Model [PDF]