Computational methods for physics / Joel Franklin, Reed College.

"There is an increasing need for undergraduate students in physics to have a core set of computational tools. Most problems in physics benefit from numerical methods, and many of them resist analytical solution altogether. This textbook presents numerical techniques for solving familiar physica...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvii, 400 p. :; ill.
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Programming overview; 2. Ordinary differential equations; 3. Root-finding; 4. Partial differential equations; 5. Time dependent problems; 6. Integration; 7. Fourier transform; 8. Harmonic oscillators; 9. Matrix inversion; 10. The eigenvalue problem; 11. Iterative methods; 12. Minimization; 13. Chaos; 14. Neural networks; 15. Galerkin methods; References; Index.