This is the course web page for the computational physics course.  I
will put my course notes, the assignments and some sample programs
here.
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<a href="teaching/syllabus_and_goals.pdf">Syllabus and course goals</a><br>
<a href="teaching/grading_policy.pdf">Grading policy</a><br>
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<big>Lecture notes on topics </big><br>
<a href="teaching/full_notes.pdf">Full lecture notes for the whole
course</a> (these have not yet been proofread for the sections beyond what
we have covered in class)<br>
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<big> Notes on a lecture by lecture basis</big><br>
<a href="teaching/notes.pdf">Notes from week 1: Motivations for learning computational physics</a><br>
<a href="teaching/notes_linux.pdf">Notes on using Linux and plotting</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/notes/notes_approaching_problems.pdf">Notes on approaching computational problems</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/notes/notes_pointers.pdf">Notes on pointers and arrays</a><br>
<a href="teaching/notes_fourier.pdf">Notes on Fourier analysis and libraries</a><br>
<a href="teaching/notes_newton_method.pdf">Notes on root finding</a><br>
<a href="teaching/notes_integration.pdf">Notes on round-off errors and
  numerical integration</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/notes/notes_difeq.pdf">Notes on differential equations</a><br>
<a href="teaching/notes_monte_carlo.pdf">Notes on Monte Carlo methods</a><br>
<a href="teaching/notes_fitting.pdf">Notes on fitting data</a><br>
<a href="teaching/output_values_linear">Sample data set to be fitted in class</a><br>

<a href="teaching/output_values_mystery_1">Unknown data set 1</a><br>
<a href="teaching/output_values_mystery_2">Unknown data set 2</a><br>
<a href="teaching/output_values_mystery_3">Unknown data set 3</a><br>



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<big>Assignments for the course</big><br>
<a href="teaching/assignment_plotting.pdf"> Assignment 1: simple plotting with gnuplot</a><br>
<a href="teaching/plotdata_intro"> plotdata_intro </a>, the file you should plot in the first assignment<br>
<a href="teaching/assignment_algorithms.pdf"> Assignment 2: simple algorithm development</a><br>
<a href="teaching/assignment_essay.pdf"> Essay assignment description</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/assignments/assignment_calculator.pdf"> Calculator assignment</a><br>
<a href="teaching/assignment_fourier.pdf"> Pulsar assignment</a><br>
Note: to compile with gsl, you need to add two more flags that were not in the notes, because the gsl libraries' location has been moved since I wrote the notes:
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-I /home/tmacc/gsl/include -L /home/tmacc/gsl/lib
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<a href="teaching/out_fake_pulsar"> Test data for fake pulsar assignment</a><br>
<a href="teaching/assignment_newton.pdf"> Newton's method assignment</a><br>
<a href="teaching/assignment_integrate.pdf"> Integration assignment</a><br>
<a href="teaching/assignment_dif_eq.pdf"> Differential equation assignment</a><br>
<a href="teaching/assignment_monte_carlo.pdf"> Monte Carlo assignment</a><br>
<a href="teaching/assignment_modelling.pdf"> Modelling assignment</a><br>
<big>Final project</big><br>
<a href="teaching/projects/projects.pdf"> Final project assignment</a><br>


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<big>Sample programs for the course </big><br>
<a href="teaching/helloworld.cc"> helloworld.cc </a><br>
<a href="teaching/compute_sines.cc"> compute_sines.cc</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/programs/read_numbers.cc"> read_numbers.cc</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/programs/dot_product.cc"> dot_product.cc</a><br>
<a href="teaching/test_gsl.cc"> test_gsl.cc</a><br>
<a href="teaching/fake_pulsar.cc"> fake_pulsar.cc</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/programs/fake_pulsar_streamio.cc"> fake_pulsar_streamio.cc</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/programs/read_numbers_stream.cc"> read_numbers_stream.cc</a><br>

<a href="teaching/sum_1_n.cc"> sum_1_n.cc</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/programs/solve_quadratic.cc"> solve_quadratic.cc</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/programs/pendulum.cc"> pendulum.cc</a><br>
<a href="teaching/computational/programs/pendulum_rk4.cc"> pendulum_rk4.cc</a><br>



<big>Other useful information</big><br>
<a href="teaching/notes_difeq.tex">Sample LaTeX file with notes for the differential equations lecture</a><br>
<a href="http://www.cplusplus.com/"> The C++ Resources Network</a>, a good place to look up information about syntax for C++ programming<br>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/">The GNU Scientific Library</a>, a repository of well-tested functions for C++ programmers that implement a wide range of numerical algorithms of use to scientists<br>
<a href="http://www.nr.com"> Numerical Recipes Web site</a>, links to a free online version of the Numerical Recipes book, which is a good place to learn the basics of numerical analysis<br>